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Posterous group blogs are now email lists too. Get instant email notifications for new posts

Posterous is now the easiest way to create an email list for your family or group. Creating a group blog is easy, just enter the email addresses of your friends and family intro the contributors section of Site Settings. Those contributors don't even need to create accounts in order to post or comment.
 
When any contributor posts to the site, we'll send that entire post, including all the images, to the contributors. They can then reply to that email to add a comment to the post. And as before, those comments get emailed to all contributors.

Want to send something out to your group but not have it published to your public site? Easy. Just email private@sitename.posterous.com. We'll still send it out the contributors, but it will remain private.
 
Dead simple email lists for your group or family. Create one today!

Comments (31)

May 05, 2009
Daniel said...
Nice, Posterous can now be used as an alternative to Google Groups. But I was hoping that *anyone* could subscribe to the blog posts just by submitting their email address. Is there any plans to add this ability? Many people use FeedBurner to do this, but it seems like a natural feature for Posterous to add.
May 05, 2009
Sachin Agarwal said...
@Daniel that's a great idea. We'll definitely be continuing to add more functionality to our groups product to make it act more and more like an email list. Email based subscriptions are coming soon.
May 05, 2009
Nice feature guys !
A group blog that support multiple circle of friends&families... using pubblic&private posts !
May 05, 2009
Bjarte Minde said...
This is brilliant! Looking forward to using it.
May 05, 2009
james Tan said...
Huzzah!
May 05, 2009
Cool idea.. seems like other "cooler" stuff (page design, iphone app, etc) should be happening before this though? Either way... Much respect from Me and keep up the good work. :-)
May 05, 2009
Sachin Agarwal said...
@Jeff thanks for the feedback. iPhone app and theming is coming, but those are large efforts that take a lot of development time and testing. Don't worry, we're working on those too.

Features are like this one will be coming along the way as we work on the larger stuff

May 06, 2009
Lewis Collard said...
Great job, guys. I don't know if I'll ever use it, but I still think you're awesome for continually adding cool things like this. You rock.

World domination: Pending.

May 06, 2009
J.F. Ayel said...
Posterous email list: Great job. Bravo... one question: are the emails sent one by one or grouped?
May 06, 2009
Yet another great feature added onto an already amazing product! This makes now the perfect time for me to share posterous with my family and see if they will make the evolutionary step to posterous from a traditional e-mail list.
May 06, 2009
Sachin Agarwal said...
We send the email instantly for each post, one by one for each contributor on the site
May 06, 2009
Jose Arocha said...
Sachin, at awe with all the progress and great UX at posterous. Looking forward to playing with it.
May 07, 2009
jomar hilario said...
Who are these geniuses doing all these new cool features!?!

jomarhilario.com

May 07, 2009
is me! said...
so picasa can now go. what a solution. can u guys now start mms service thing too- my phone sucks!
May 08, 2009
Kahlil Lechelt said...
Sweet! You guys are the shizzle!
May 08, 2009
ravi said...
@Sachin: as the person who (among others?) pestered you for this feature, I will take all the credit for it... er, I mean, thank you! ;-)
May 13, 2009
Eric Tsai said...
That's pretty awesome, now you guys just need to get an iPhone app going sir!
May 14, 2009
ravi said...
There is already an iPhone app. Its called Mail. ;-) That's the beauty of Posterous, yes?
May 14, 2009
Wow! Speechless. NAB groups are no longer needed.
May 21, 2009
David Huey said...
thanks for listening to feedback!
May 26, 2009
Thanks for the new features!
May 26, 2009
i48998 said...
This is a positive initiative but needs improvement. Look at it from the average internet user's perspective, someone who has only learned to use e-mail and some how have managed to subscribe to few listservs (with hand holding of course). Posterous needs a very simple way for people to subscribe. I find Feedburner's subscription method very simple and easiest, even better than Yahoogroups/Googlegroups. You type your email address in the box and you click on the link in your email to confirm/verify. I think even this 2-step solution could potentially be turned into a 1-step subscription (though it may be impossible).
May 26, 2009
papua said...
It is obvious that particularly for us in remote and low-speed and even poor Internet connection like us in West Papua, Posterous helps us to spread news and information from our remore and isolated areas easily, quickly and directly even from jungles and villages.
May 27, 2009
tukang nggame said...
Ok, thanks. I am learning it
May 27, 2009
Fred Campbell said...
Posterous just keeps getting better! I'm signing clients up to it as well, it's the perfect blog
May 27, 2009
Becky Le Blond said...
What if I'd like the email list but still want to be the only contributor to my site? So I can post and edit and the rest of the group can get the updates and post comments. I realize that this is how it already works - with subscriptions but some of my followers can't figure out subcribing or are too lazy.
May 27, 2009
Todd Meadows said...
If the group is set to forward posts to twitter, does each contribution get twittered?
May 28, 2009
nubeals said...
Yes, each one gets twittered Todd. =)

I sometimes wish I could stick to my current blog rather than having each link pointing towards the posterous blog. I don't mind updating the posterous one, but my main source of revenue is the blogspot one. And although posterous posts my stuff there, the link given on facebook, twitter and all other sites is only to the posterous blog - not my blogspot.

Jun 13, 2009
salomea said...
I totally agree with Becky: I just want to spread news to my family but not have them the ability to contribute entire posts (comments are ok). Subscribing is already one notch to techie for them...
Jun 23, 2009
Dries Grobler said...
What about TweetDeck and TweetDeck for the iPhone.. Please talk to these guys.. Thanks!
Oct 30, 2009
ekadar said...
Cool feature! I'm using this now. And what makes me impressed is that you guys on the team are really listening to the inputs people made... (not many done this)
Ah, on question, is there any way we can set up an option to send every post via email to contributors as one posts or one like newsletter post per interval of time. Example I one them to recieve one newsletter of posts in one week instead of one post per upload...?

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