I am creating a tool to be used by our staff  and was wondering if anyone has any suggestions or best practices you use that would help me improve on the information that is listed below.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Jane


Creating and Using a Listserver

Top Benefits of a Listserver

1. Offers group discussion over email alone
2. Offers options for a summary message
3. Easier for members who do not want to login to the Web site
4. Messages are retained and stored through an archive feature
5. Access is via email and is available to members that have a subscription to the service

Top Reasons for Using Listservers

1. Cost-Effective
2. Easy to administer
3. Require limited resources
4. Fast and have a wide reach
5. Simple technology
 

Best Practices/Tips

1. Allows you to create different discussion groups for interactive
involvement 
2. Highly interactive 
3. Creation of a new listserver is very easy and quick 
4. Option to receive messages in digest form 
5. Access to archives for your subscribed listserve

Timeline

It takes less than 1 hour to create a new listserver