Named, reusable lists of email addresses
The list of who gets the monthly report, written down once.
Every team has a few lists that live in somebody’s head or in last month’s Cc line: the board, the night shift, the suppliers who get the price change. Piskes Groups gives each one a name and keeps the addresses in it, so the list survives the person who remembered it.
Read this first: Piskes Groups keeps lists. It does not send mail, it does not create a group address such as team@yourcompany, and the Piskes email apps do not read it yet. Today you open a group and copy the addresses you need from it.
What it is
A name, a description, and the addresses. That is the whole record.
Small on purpose. A list is only useful if it is current, and a list is only kept current if keeping it takes no effort.
A name you will recognise
Plus a description for the rule behind the list — who belongs on it, and who decided that — so the next person does not have to guess.
Each address checked on entry
Something that is not an email address is refused when you add it, rather than discovered when a message bounces.
Adding twice keeps one
An address already on the list is not added a second time, so nobody gets the same message twice because of a copy-paste.
Name the group
Give it a name and, if it helps, a sentence saying who belongs on it.
Add the addresses
One at a time. Remove one with a click when somebody leaves the list.
Open it when you need it
The group shows every address on it. Copy them into whichever mail you are writing.
Honestly
Against the note on your phone, and against a real mailing-list address.
A mailing-list address does more than this. If you need people to write to one address and reach everyone, this is not that, and it is not planned to be.
| A note on your phone | A mailing-list address | Piskes Groups today | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keeps who is on the list | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Checks each address is an address | No | Usually | Yes |
| Sends the mail for you | No | Yes | No |
| One address people can write to | No | Yes | No, and not planned |
| Typing the group name in the To field | No | The address does it | Not yet |
| Shared with colleagues | If you send it | Usually | Not yet |
Expanding a group in the email composer
Neither Piskes Email nor Piskes Mail reads your groups yet. Until they do, a group is a list you open and copy from.
02Groups shared with a workspace
A group belongs to the person who made it. Colleagues cannot see it or use it, and there is no way to hand one over.
03Pasting a whole list at once
Addresses go in one at a time. There is no paste-many box and no import from a file.
04Ignoring capital letters
Two spellings of one address that differ only in capitals are kept as two entries today.
05A group address that receives mail
No team@ mailbox, no forwarding. Running mail for a shared address well is a different product, and this is not it.
Questions
Mostly about the box at the top of this page.
Is this Google Groups?
It is the list part and nothing else. There is no group address, no archive of messages and no mail sent by Groups itself.
Can my colleagues see my groups?
No. Every group is private to the person who made it, including from people in the same workspace.
Does anyone on the list get told they were added?
No. Groups sends nothing. Adding or removing an address is invisible to the person it belongs to.
How big can a group be?
The group page shows the first 1,000 addresses. Groups is built for lists a person reads, not for newsletter audiences.
Can a group be protected from deletion?
Yes. A group under a Piskes Vault hold cannot be deleted. Its addresses can still be added and removed while the hold is on.
Write down the one list you keep retyping.
Name it, add the addresses, and stop rebuilding it from last month’s Cc line. When the email apps learn to read it, it will already be there.