An electronic mailing list (sometimes written as elist or e-list) is a special use of e-mail, which provides for broad dissemination of information to many Internet users. It is similar to a traditional mailing list - a list of names and addresses - if it can be held by an organization for sending publications to its members or customers, but usually refers to four things: a list of e-mail addresses of the people ( "Subscribers"), from e-mails to those addresses, the publications (e-mail) sent to those addresses, and a reflector, an e-mail address that the designated as the recipient of a message, a copy From the message to subscribers. Electronic mailing lists are usually fully or partially automated through the use of special mailing list software and a reflector address are set to a server capable of receiving e-mail. Incoming messages sent to the reflector address will be processed by the software, and, depending on their content, be followed up internally (in the case of messages with commands that focus on the software itself) or be distributed to all e-mail addresses registered with the Mailing List. Depending on the software, additional addresses can be established for the purpose of sending commands. Many electronic mailing list servers have a special e-mail address, which subscribers (or who wish to become subscribers) can send commands to the server to perform these tasks as subscription and opt out, temporarily stopping sending messages to them, or changing preferences. The common format for sending these missions is to send an e-mail that simply the command followed by the name of the electronic mailing list commanded. Examples: anylist subscribe or subscribe anylist John Doe. Some list servers also allow people to subscribe, unsubscribe, change preferences, etc. Through a website. Electronic mailing list-servers can be set to direct messages to subscribers of a mailing list, either individually as they are received by the server list or in digest form in which all messages received on a given day by the server list are combined in an e-mail message Is that sent once a day to subscribers. Some mailing lists possible individual subscribers to decide how they prefer to receive messages from the list server (individual or digest). Another type of electronic mailing list is a discussion list, where each subscriber post. In a discussion list, a subscriber used the mailing list to send messages to all other subscribers, which may answer the same way. Thus actual discussion and exchange of information can occur. Mailing lists of this type are usually theme-oriented (for example, political, scientific discussion, joke contests), and the subject can range from very limited to "what you think should be interesting for us". In that they are comparable to Usenet newsgroups, and share the same aversion to off-topic messages. The term includes both types of group lists and newsgroups. Free web-based service provides a simple way to run and maintain such lists were popular in the late 1990, but many of these were taken over or went bankrupt, so the only popular provider is now Yahoo! Groups. This is used by a wide range of groups, including organizations that at first glance might be regarded as' rivals' Yahoo!. MSN Groups seems to be pushing hard to get Yahoo!. Innercircle.cc is designed for a personal e-mail group or circle of friends, relatives, colleagues, etc. Using an e-mail address - it is an easy-to-use web-based interface for creating and managing multiple groups such personal friends, family, football team, tennis friends or a group on a project. Freelists.org is a technology-related, web-based service using all free software, but it may be difficult for some users. The new version of Google Groups include free mailing list services, as well as access to Usenet. Jiglu adds wiki and feed aggregation of traditional group model, and ties it together with an "auto" function using natural language processing techniques. A mailing list archive is a collection of old messages from one or more electronic mailing lists. Such records often contain search and indexing functions. Many archives are directly linked to the mailing list, but some organizations such as Gmane gather archives of multiple mailing lists hosted on different organizations - thus, a message sent to a popular mailing list may end in various archives. Gmane had archives of more than 9,000 mailing lists as of January 16, 2007. Some popular free software programs to collect mailing list archives are Hypermail and MHonArc.
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