>On Thu, 23 Nov 1995 07:50:01 -0800 Maryjo Bruce <[log in to unmask]> >said: > >>However, I am counfounded by information given to me by local >>hardware/software sellers. Ever though I tell each salesperson the same >>thing, I get answers that vary from, "You don't need anything. You can >>use a 286 and free software" to "Expect to spend no less than $25,000." > >I guess each of these people had a particular situation in mind for which >the answer was accurate. With a 286, DOS and some freeware package or >other you can probably set up a two-soup-cans-waxed-wire solution. With >$25k you can buy a very nice system that can deliver 1 million messages a >day. It all depends on your needs and budget. Have you got existing >hardware? What is your expected daily volume? How are you connected to >the Internet? These are the kind of questions that would determine the >type of solution to look for. > > Eric You can create a 'scratch forum' by putting the names of all the members in the 'To:' space. You keep the entire list, with addresses separated by commas, in a file in your computer or in your 'out' file of your email software. Everytime you want to send a posting, you select 'send again' or cut and paste from the file or 'rep[ly'. Your scratch forum members do the same. Nothing dfancy. I saw a forum on the philosopher A. N. Whitehead conducted this way for some months. __________________________________________ | Robert Maxwell Young: [log in to unmask] | 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ England | tel. +44 171 607 8306 fax. +44 171 6094837 | Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, | Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, | University of Sheffield: [log in to unmask] | Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ | _Mental Space_: http://rdz.stjohns.edu/gp/rmy.html | Process Press, _Free Associations_, _Science as Culture_: | http://rdz.stjohns.edu/gp/process.html 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus