People in organizations often need to collaborate in groups.
They need to hold discussions and share files. Sometimes
internal in private groups. Sometimes with the public.
Sometimes both.
Benefits of Email Groups
When people need to collaborate in groups, without meeting face
to face, they often use email. Email is great because most people
in organizations already use it, and all email talks to all email.
The trouble is, that email is not very good for group discussions.
It quickly gets very messy.
Email groups make it easy to collaborate using email.
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You can have multiple concurrent conversations.
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There is a permanent record.
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Nobody has to keep their own copy.
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You can access it from anywhere.