At OnlineGroups.net, we help people to collaborate using email. That makes it pretty important that people actually receive email that is sent by their groups. Unfortunately, a lot of spam and phishing email is sent to those same people. Their email providers have to sort out the helpful collaborative email from the unhelpful email. Sometimes… Read more »
Posts By: Dan Randow
Tuning email discussion list privacy for internal knowledge-sharing
Email discussion lists (aka listservs) are a simple and versatile tool for sharing knowledge and holding discussions using email. You can do a lot with the usual privacy settings: public or private. But unless you host your online groups site behind your firewall, neither of these are ideal for knowledge-sharing inside your organisation. OnlineGroups.net have… Read more »
DMARC will expand the role of mailing list moderation
As Laura points out, calling an email spam is not a moral judgement. It’s just a statement of what a particular recipient thinks of an email. I have pretty negative thoughts about some email. And many people enjoy the precooked meat product that has been around since 1937. Spam is a construct that is used… Read more »
DMARC and taking responsibility for sending group email
As it looks like strict DMARC policies are here to stay, OnlineGroups.net has improved its handling of posts from a domains with a strict DMARC policy. This means that as other providers switch to strict policies, we will automatically be able to take responsibility for delivering emails. Here is an explanation of the change we… Read more »
Who says email is no longer an effective means of collaboration?
In yet another article slamming email, and lamenting the lack of alternatives, Robert Barmorth writes, in Collaborative conversation in the post-email enterprise: Email is no longer an effective means of collaboration and some companies have even banned it – but what is the alternative? In the relatively short time of the couple of decades email… Read more »
How to launch an online group
The launch is an important moment in the life of an online group. You are enthusiastic about the potential for your group to collaborate. You have chosen and set up the platform for the new group. Now it is time to engage your participants in making your vision a reality. Building participation online is not… Read more »
How OnlineGroups.net used the Yahoo! DMARC crisis to make a better Mailing List Manager
Two days ago, Yahoo! made a change to its email servers that caused severe problems for almost all Mailing List Managers, including OnlineGroups.net. Any email sent from a Yahoo! email address to a mailing list could not be delivered to an email address at Gmail, Outlook.com (including MSN, Hotmail and Windows Live Mail), Comcast or… Read more »
Why people still use email for collaboration
In How Social Tools Have Failed In the Enterprise So Far, Dennis Duvauchelle writes: Amazingly (to me), most people still rely on email as the primary method of communicating, collaborating and sharing. It does not surprise me that so many people still use email for collaboration. Despite the proliferation of social tools, supported by IT… Read more »
How to whitelist an email address with Gmail, Outlook.com or Yahoo! Mail
You are trying to reset your password. The site says “check your inbox for a password reset email”. But there is no email in your inbox. This frustrating problem can also occur when you are signing up with a site, or adding an email address to your profile. It can also stop you getting posts… Read more »
Listservs (aka mailing list managers) explained
List servers (aka mailing list managers) are applications that allow a member of a group to email the other members of the group. They are mostly used for discussion and announcements. They are distinct from email marketing systems which handle email newsletters and other marketing email. List servers go by various names, and there are… Read more »
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