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 Collect their contact inforamation.
-Create a mailing list for continued discussions. You can create a list in sites such as [http://www.freelists.org/ Free Lists], [http://groups.google.com/ Google Groups]  - no advertisements on posts, [http://groups.yahoo.com/ Yahoo Groups] - has advertisements on posts
+Create a mailing list for continued discussions. You can create a list in sites such as
-Also you can create a community in online social networking sites like [http://www.orkut.com Orkut] and link to your mailing list in the description.
+== Sites running Free Software for managing the mailing list ==
+# Request a mailman list on fosscommunity.in itself. See [[Email Lists]]
+# [http://www.freelists.org/ Free Lists]
+# [http://librelist.com/ Libre List]
+== Sites running non-free software for managing the mailing list ==
+# [http://groups.google.com/ Google Groups]  - no advertisements on posts
+# [http://groups.yahoo.com/ Yahoo Groups] - has advertisements on posts
+Also you can create a community in online social networking sites like [http://facebook.com Facebook], [http://plus.google.com Google Plus] or [http://www.orkut.com Orkut],  and add link to your mailing list in the description.
 Also add all the details about your your community [[Communities|here]] and use that page for co-ordinating with the team, say for arranging a meetup, want to conduct a poll ...