Mailing Lists

Mailing lists multiply the power of email by enabling you to send a message to many people across the Internet who are interested in the same subject, and enables readers to monitor interesting discussions on several subjects at once with automated assistance and little effort.

Anyone with email access can subscribe to mailing lists on subjects they find interesting and obtain free, peer-reviewed, up-to-date information not available anywhere else. The following sections provide more information:

• Mailing List History

• Listserv
• Majordomo
• Listproc

• Mailing List Design

• List Servers
• List Types

• Mailing List Use

• Finding Lists
• Subscribe
• Unsubscribe
• Sending
• Replying
• Digests
• Web interfaces
• Mailing list etiquette

• Listserv
• History
• Design
• Use
• Advanced use
• Help
• More information
• Majordomo
• History
• Design
• Use
• Advanced use
• Help
• More information
• Listproc

• History
• Design
• Use
• Advanced use
• More information.

• Advanced Mailing List Use

• Managing mailing lists
• Filtering
• Configuration
• Searching for lists
• Set up your own mailing list
• Well known mailing lists
  • The Internet Oracle
  • NewsScan
  • Help-Net
• Archives

• Key Mailing List Features

• One-to-many communication

• Mailing List Security

• Confidentiality
• Review
• Redistribution
• Archiving

• Mailing List Help

• Unsubscribing
• No email
• Too much email

• More Mailing List Information.

Many list commands are described in this section, so you may wish to review the section on notation describing conventions about command placeholders and options.