As my mother always says to me, everything has tradeoffs. Here
   we all have a wonderful, free, mailing list service. Egroups is
   reliable (at least more than it was in the beginning :) ),
   extremely fast, and offers e-mail access, web access, and digest
   mode. Other free mailing list software, such as Majordomo and
   many of the newer ones do not offer such features, at least not
   easily, and outside of eGroups, I would say that LISTSERV, the
   king of mailing-list software is the best in this regard. But
   again - tradeoffs. It wouldn't be difficult to have ortho-praxis
   put on a LISTSERV, but it wouldn't be easy either. One would
   have to pester a university LISTSERV Owner (who has probably
   been pestered over and over again, especially in recent times
   being more people on the Internet and all the past few years),
   and then wait, and wait, and wait. Back in '90 I had to do that
   when I was all involved with children's rights (Y-RIGHTS was my
   baby) and had to ask around through e-mail to different LISTSERV
   owners until I found one willing to help. Then in '92 or '93, I
   started another LISTSERV (MINISTRY was also my baby) and was
   lucky that time around because I came across a university that
   was newly installing their LISTSERV software and wasn't yet at
   the point of cynicism. I've since passed on the reins of
   leadership to other people years ago, as I'm no longer involved
   in those issues (I became Orthodox after running MINISTRY for a
   while, and soon realized the incompatibility of an synchrinistic
   grouping of 'spiritual leaders' from all sorts of religions with
   Orthodoxy, and passed the reins on to a Wiccan priestess (who I
   felt was quite technically capable of administering the list,
   and had the personality to continue it with the original
   guidelines I had put together, which no longer fit me but that
   fit her just fine). Anyhow - I'm babbling about my past here.
   Fact is - eGroups is providing a wonderful service. The good
   points - easy list setup, easy list maintenance, easy
   subscribing and unsubscribing (add '-subscribe' to the end of an
   eGroup's listname address to subscribe, or add '-unsubscribe' to
   the addressname to unsubscribe), easy access via Web or e-mail,
   very speedy delivery - and what do we have to deal with in
   return? Four or five little lines on the bottom of our messages.
   I think they're charging something akin to $5/month so that one
   doesn't have to see those little lines on the bottom. If
   somebody here finds the ads intrusive enough to make the
   experience of this list unpleasant, I'm sure that Elias would be
   more than happy if you would send the $5/month to the eGroups
   people. As for me, the tradeoffs are worth it. I can live with
   the occasional unwanted e-mail, or the few little lines at the
   bottom of the screen. There is an expression which sticks with
   me, and I hope to one day be able to incorporate into my life -
   it is: == Wisdom is knowing what to ignore. == ObPraxis: If
   prayer while sitting still is difficult, you can try praying
   while walking. If you can, put the car away and walk and pray.
   Praying while walking is not without precedence - the Russian
   pilgrims come especially to mind.