Whats the difference between a CIS email account and a Mailman email list?
All CIS accounts come with e-mail accounts that can be used the same way you use your own personal e-mail for yourself. Your group can send or receive messages, create address books/nicknames, and login to the account to check for messages and/or attachments. Mail lists (one “brand” of mail list software is “listserv”, but we use GNU Mailman from http://www.list.org instead) look like e-mail addresses (e.g. username-list@clubs.uci.edu) but are not e-mail accounts: they are e-mail subscription services. People with e-mail addresses can SUBSCRIBE to a mail list like a magazine subscription, and any message that is sent to the mail list (e.g. username-list@clubs.uci.edu) will be received by every subscribing e-mail address. Mailman mail lists can be used this way for announce-only bulletins to subscribers, or they can be configured for group discussions. If the latter, the list can be set to allow anyone (public) to post to the list, or it can be set to allow only subscribers to post. Mai
