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What is a good, simple way to send electronic updates to a small group? Question
What is a good way to send occasional updates (like meeting times) to a small group of people (5-20) electronically?
I see a lot of groups like this create a Facebook page and post updates on there, make the group public, and tell everyone interested to just follow the page. The problem with this is that people need to have a Facebook account, which not everyone wants to use.
A mailing list would be better, because most people do have an email account they keep up with. But setting up an actual mailing list (where people can sign up and unsubscribe) seems complicated and possibly a paid service. The alternative to a mailing list would be that whoever is sending updates has to manually keep a list of emails somewhere, and paste the whole list into the To: address of outgoing mails. Perhaps there is an easy way to set up a mailing list I'm not aware of.
Texting people would have the same issues as keeping the list of emails.
Creating a website would be great but it's a decent amount of work to set up and maintain. Not everyone is comfortable doing it. Even if you find someone to help set it up, in a few years that "expert" might disappear and then nobody knows how to maintain the site.
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