*Good* groupware?

[jducoeur]

As most of you have probably seen, I'm going to be running a heraldic-education project over the next year. (If you haven't been on any of those lists and are interested, ping me and I'll give you the details.) For this purpose, I need some sort of fairly conventional, non-technically-oriented groupware -- something that has mailing lists and discussions, allows file upload, and that sort of thing. Yahoo Groups is the usual lowest common denominator for this, but I've never really loved it, so I'm curious what else is out there.

So: do you know of good online groupware (cheap or free) that you would recommend? I'm not interested in the 95 terrible systems that undoubtedly exist -- I'm looking for recommendations of systems that in your experience don't suck, or at least are better than Yahoo...

Comments

Re: Google

[zydee.livejournal.com]

Seconding Google Groups; it's pretty easy to use. If you have a little money, then the BBS software that ex-christian.net uses is stupendous in my opinion--there's code for PMs, chats, file repositories, everything you can think of. I looked into the cost at one point and it was surprisingly low for the capabilities it offers.