Mailing to a group of people (Brockport version)

Although this may not technically belong here, I do want to retain this tidbit, so here it is.
There are often times in my job where I am emailing information to a group of people, whether for a conference or a group like the SUNYLA Professional Development subcommittee. Often I have used the clunky solution of collecting email addresses in a spreadsheet and doing a mail merge or cut and paste into the message. Clunky, right? Alternatively, I have occasionally created Groups within Exchange, but when I wanted to do it this time, I couldn't find the option anymore. It turns out it is under the New Items - more items section (duh!) but it is still a little clunky to be able to do or to edit. It turns out, though, that there is a way to have an actual Lyris mailing list created by going to http://forms.brockport.edu/view.php?id=949956. And all this time we thought you had to have special powers to do that.