Erez,

Sorry to jump in.  I read your post on the LSTSRV-L list, and seized the
opportunity to ask for advice.

I, too, am trying to get a couple of mailing lists up and running.  My
problem is that I cannot get people to subscribe.  Though the lists seem
helpful (for instance, debates on online communities in my country,
making friends online, discussing programming issues, etc.), people do
not subscribe.  I believe there is something I should be telling them in
order to arouse their interest.  I've even tried comparing newsgroup
with mailing lists, highlighting the advantages of the latter, but to no
avail.

I would, therefore, be most grateful if you could give me a few tips and
advices.  I addressed to you because I see your list has many
subscribers.

Now, I'll be proposing a solution.  Is your list based on a simple email
client?  How do you do it?  Do you copy the recipients' addresses in the
BCC field?

If that's the way you're doing it, I'd like to suggest that you try to
get FTGate, which is a mail server for Win95 and running over dial-up
connection.  Besides serving as local mail server it also has mailing
list capability, though limited.  I'm using it here on free email
accounts available from www.hempseed.com, and I find it quite useful.

Besides, you could check www.davecentral.com for low cost solution to
running a mailing list.  I'd suggest looking in Email > Email Servers.
One name I have in mind right now is SLMail besides FTGate.

I hope to have been of some help and look forward to your reply.

Regards,

Eddy Young

P.S. Could you please try querying my listserver by sending mail to
[log in to unmask]  This would help me check that it is running
fine and it would give you an idea of what FTGate is like.

-----Original Message-----
From: Erez Kaplan <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 01 January 1998 23:07
Subject: Looking for Listserv sponsor


>_______________________________________________________________________
________
>Subject: Looking for Listserv sponsor
>From:    Erez Kaplan
>Date:    1/1/98  4:38 pm
>
>Hi,
>
>I currently have a 'manual' mailing list which seems to have outgrown
the
>manual stage by having 250 members.
>So I am looking for a mailing-list provider/sponsor.
>
>What's this list/site all about?
>
>The history of mathematics goes a long way back with devices and
methods of
>calculation. Starting
>with the ancient Abacus, the slide rule and the logarithms, the
mechanical
>calculating machines,
>the electromechanical calculators and finally the electronic computer.
>This site deals mainly with the mechanical calculating machines from a
>collector's point of view.
>I hope you enjoy this site and find it as useful as many other
cyberspace
>citizens have.
>
>http://www.webcom.com/calc/
>
>Site awards:
>1) Article in "NewsWeek" magazine (see in site)
>2) "Microsoft" site of the week.
>3) "Yahoo" cool site.
>
>Please send all replays directly to [log in to unmask]
>
>Thanks
>
>Erez kaplan