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Proposal to the mailing list feature of Google Apps

Google Apps has a feature to manage mailing lists.

It’s nessasary for the email hosting service, especially for business users.

But Google Apps’ mailing list feature is not perfect. I found a problem. Let me describe it.

If you use mailing lists in business, you may know all the recipients, and all the recipients know each other. But sometimes you make a misstake, for example, you misunderstand the list member so that your email doesn’t reach to appropriate recipients. Or you will accidentally send your email to unwanted recipients.

This is the problem. I thinks it’s a problem of design, so it can be fixed with an aspect of design.

Here’s the solution. Add an email address lists to each mails posted to the mailing list. Then you can check the list member each time you post or receive.

Do you want to know how it works? See qwik.jp(qwikWeb) and its ancestor quickml(hosting service QuickML.com).

Of course, appending members list to each post is not a general solutions. I think this is effective in business mailing lists.

Please consider about this, Google Apps team.