What is a mailing list?
A Mailing List is an automatically e-mailed newsletter. Many web sites will offer the opportunity to subscribe to their Mailing List, so you can be kept up-to-date with their latest news, or it may be a group with a common interest. Mailing Lists are administered by software, such as Majordomo, LISTSERV(R), and LISTPROC, which sends a copy of the message to everyone on the list. In the case of a user-group, you can post a message that the server sends to everyone on the list. When replying to a message, decide whether you want your post to go to the whole group, or only to the person who wrote the message to avoid choking the system with irrelevant material.
Student organizations can request a mailing list to which people can subscribe to receive mass emailing sent out from one email account. An example of this would be the mass email sent out by Student Information Center. Where one email is sent to an address and all students on that list receive the email. For more information on subscribing to mailing lists or requesting one for your organization please visit http://mailer.iit.
A mailing list can be thought of simply as a single email address that delivers to a number of recipients. A mailing list can be configured to only allow a small number of people to send to it (this is useful for sending announcements to many recipients). It is also possible to allow every recipient to send to everybody on the list (this is useful for providing support for products and services and to allow people to discuss common interests.
folkmusic is a list of email addresses maintained with a “list server software. Each address on the list receives a copy of each message sent to the list. folkmusic is a moderated list. This means that a human being, the moderator or an assistant, reads each message and forwards appropriate ones to the list. Postings which don’t follow the list posting guidelines will be rejected with an explanation notice, except for obvious SPAM which will just be discarded. For more about mailing lists and how to use them, visit Liszt at http://www.liszt.com Liszt is a searchable database of thousands of mailing lists from all over the world. It includes lots of easy-to-use features and information for people who are very new to the use of mailing lists.
A mailing list allows you to send email to people who subscribe to your mailing list. It does not provide you with lists of names or email addresses – The main purpose of a mailing list is to give you the ability to efficiently send a plain text email message to a large number of recipients with minimal delay. One WebCentral mailing list allows you to send an email to up to 1,000 recipients from a single email address. Essentially, a mailing list is a very basic form of mass email marketing. If you are looking for a more comprehensive email marketing tool that allows you to create graphic-rich HTML emails and provides all the functionality to comply with anti-spam legislation, you may like to consider using our Promotions Manager service.
