Internet Mailing Lists

Mailing lists represent another way to interact with other Internet users.

• Mailing-list messages are delivered right to your e-mail box.
• You have to ask for permission to join a mailing list. Usually you send a subscribe request to the server.

  the Body of email contains

  subscribe plus mailing list name.

• You send your messages to a central moderator, who
  • either re-mails it to the other people on the list
  • or uses it to compile a periodic digest mailed to subscribers.
  • Usenet newsgroups (See later) are similar BUT different.

• You can find mailing addresses and descriptions of these lists in the

  news.announce.newusers

  newsgroup with the subject of ``Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists.''

• Mailing lists now number in the hundreds, so this posting is divided into three parts.
• If you find a list to which you want to subscribe, send an e-mail message to

   list-request@address
  

  where list is the name of the mailing list and address is the moderator's e-mail address, asking to be added to the list. Include your full e-mail address just in case something happens to your message's header along the way, and ask, if you're accepted, for the address to mail messages to the list.