For several years I have managed a 16-member mailing list using Yahoo Groups. Yahoo has announced they will no longer support groups after December 14. I need to find another service to host my list. It needs to be free.
Check out groups.io. We started using it for our extended family emails about 2 years ago and it works just fine, and it’s 100% free.
One problem with Google Groups, I believe, is that you have to have a google/gmail account to use all its features. Groups.io has no such restrictions.
Creating a group and sending invitations is easy to do. Each invitee has to accept the invitation to become part of the group.
There are a lot of features, but accepting the defaults worked fine for us…except we made it a private, rather than a public, discoverable group. There are a bunch of other features than are available, but we don’t use them.