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Innercircle.cc - Free Group Email Service

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By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com

Innercircle.cc - Free Group Email Service

Innercircle.cc - Free Group Email Service

Heinz Tschabitscher

The Bottom Line

Innercircle.cc makes it easy to set up and mail small groups — privately and from any email program or service. It might be nice for Innercircle.cc to allow for setting up groups and adding members on the fly — say, using the Cc: field.
Pros
  • Innercircle.cc makes it easy to set up mailing lists for groups like families or friends
  • Each Innercircle.cc group has an address which distributes emails to all members
  • You can import contacts from email services and programs
Cons
  • Innercircle.cc keeps no conversation archives
  • Only the group owner can add new members, and it can only be done via the web
  • You cannot block certain senders from adding you to their Innercircle.cc groups

Description

  • Innercircle.cc lets you create small mailing lists easily.
  • Every Innercircle.cc list has a group address. Mail to that address is distributed to all members.
  • You can allow all group members to send messages to the list.
  • To set up a group or add members, you can import from your email program's or service's address book or Plaxo.

Guide Review - Innercircle.cc - Free Group Email Service

It's great for everything you write to be out on the social web for everyone to see. For everything and everyone? Certainly not.

You can mail a host of friends using the Bcc: field in your email program, of course, or even set up a group. Then you switch email programs or services, or you want to use a site's "email this" feature to reach a group.

You can set up a fully fledged mailing list or group at Google or Yahoo!, of course, and handle the administration. Or you set up a group at Innercircle.cc.

Innercircle.cc makes it easy to set up quick and private lists — for friends, co-workers, impromptu groups and families, for example. Each Innercircle.cc group has its own address. Send an email to that address distributes the message to all group members.

You can choose to "share" any Innercircle.cc list you create, and all the list's members can email that same list address (which is also set as the Reply-to address by Innercircle.cc). It's a pity other group members cannot easily add (or invite) new people to the circle.

In general, it might be nice if Innercircle.cc allowed for implicit list creation (by, say, mailing a couple of people and a new address at your Innercircle.cc sub-domain). A conversation archive accessible to members could also be useful.

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