Crusty though the software is, this is why list-hosts matter. Reply all is a terrible way to manage group communication by email. list-name@lists.domain.com is a pretty decent way to go about it. Emails that get distributed have a [list-name] tag prepended to the subject line for trivial filtering on the client side. You can set a large list to require moderation before distributing messages (except from a list of blessed senders). You can tell the software to set the Reply-To header to the sender's email, rather than the list's address, so that the "Reply" and "Reply all" buttons have the expected behavior. And there is self-service subscribe/unsubscribe via a web interface (with permissions, of course).
My university operates such a server and it's heavily used by everyone from department announcements to student organization coordination/discussion.
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Crusty though the software is, this is why list-hosts matter. Reply all is a terrible way to manage group communication by email. list-name@lists.domain.com is a pretty decent way to go about it. Emails that get distributed have a [list-name] tag prepended to the subject line for trivial filtering on the client side. You can set a large list to require moderation before distributing messages (except from a list of blessed senders). You can tell the software to set the Reply-To header to the sender's email, rather than the list's address, so that the "Reply" and "Reply all" buttons have the expected behavior. And there is self-service subscribe/unsubscribe via a web interface (with permissions, of course).
My university operates such a server and it's heavily used by everyone from department announcements to student organization coordination/discussion.
https://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/