Today, Google announced the launch of Groups for Google Apps class Premier (paid accounts), as well as for educational institutions.
Now company employees can create groups for their departments, groups or projects. These groups can be used as mailing lists and share documents, spreadsheets, presentations, calendars, videos, instead of multiple individual recipients. They can choose to receive messages directly to an email inbox, in a digest format or in the forum or group mode, and also have access to all information in the group archive, without intervention from the IT administrator.
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It is a pity that not for everyone, but the first step of misfortune began, right?
upd: for Russian educational institutions the service is not provided, since nobody fully switched to the google education edition. However, according to rumors, Google has been negotiating with several Moscow universities for several months.