today, while preparing for the meeting tonight, i realized that simply responding to the PHIXDA mass email that lee recently sent out would not work. outlook told me that PHIXDA_Memebers Group was an invalid recipient! And i was like, yes it is… i want to send them an email. they are totally valid! and it was like, no it’s not. gfys! and it went on literally for minutes.
could we perhaps set up a google group or a single point forwarding email address to send stuff to?
I agree completely that we need to setup a mass email account. We can do this and we can also give custom email addresses for everyone with yourname@phixda.org.
The big question is will people use these email addresses if we give them out or would they rather they just forward them to a @gmail or @hotmail account? In either case, yes we need to setup a group-mass email system for all the people involved in this. I have absolutely zero experience in creating something like this so if someone else has experience please advise us on how to do this.
I use my personal email contacts group, PHIXDA_Members Group, when ever I send out the emails so yeah, I assume that your email settings wouldn’t know what that is.
Also we need to start dividing up the website into content areas where we can show work, store code and share ideas etc.
well, there is always google groups which will give you 1 email to rule them all. if that email address receives anything, it’s disseminated across the list automatically.
another thing you could probably do is set up a members@phixda.org and have anything that is sent to that address forwarded to ours…
i think google groups has a lot more options for filtering and permissions.