# Mailing list server to replace Yahoo
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mailing-list-server-to-replace-yahoo/925184
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [November 9, 2020, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mailing-list-server-to-replace-yahoo/925184 "2020-11-09T23:48:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2020, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mailing-list-server-to-replace-yahoo/925184/1 "2020-11-09T23:48:03Z")
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.
Can anyone recommend anything?
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2020, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mailing-list-server-to-replace-yahoo/925184/2 "2020-11-10T01:10:31Z")
I’m in the same boat. I’m switching to Google Groups - I’ll let you know how it works…
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### Author:  [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2020, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mailing-list-server-to-replace-yahoo/925184/3 "2020-11-10T02:49:17Z")
My first thought was listserv, but then saw that it is no longer freeware. After some digging (it’s on their download menu, but not their pricing menu), [they do have a free version, dependent on your use case.](http://www.lsoft.com/download/listservfree.asp)
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### Author:  [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2020, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mailing-list-server-to-replace-yahoo/925184/4 "2020-11-10T03:22:30Z")
Check out [groups.io](https://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](http://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.
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### Author:  [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2020, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mailing-list-server-to-replace-yahoo/925184/5 "2020-11-10T12:43:19Z")
A Yahoo group I was part of switched to Google Groups. It doesn’t handle pictures as well, but group e-mails work just fine.
For pictures, Yahoo Groups kept a copy of the picture separate so you could look at them separately, but Google Groups just keeps them in the e-mail.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2020, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mailing-list-server-to-replace-yahoo/925184/6 "2020-11-10T16:13:29Z")
> [@Railer13](#):
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> Check out [groups.io](https://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.
I’m in an email group that uses [groups.io](http://groups.io). We switched over from yahoo and it was seamless.