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What (who) is mailing lists - definition

COLLECTION OF NAMES AND ADDRESSES USED TO SEND MATERIAL TO MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS
Electronic mailing list; Mailing list archive; Mail List Manager; Mailing lists; Mailinglist; Mailing List; E-mail list; Email list; Mailing-list; Listservs; Electronic mailing lists; Listserve; E-mail groups; Discussion list; Listwashing; Mail list; Mail-List-Manager; Internet mailing list; Internet discussion list; List server; Wikipedia mailing lists; Foundation-l; Business lists; Email group; Notify list; Elist; E-list; Electronic Mailing List; Mailing list manager; E-mail discussion list; E-mail exploder; Email exploder; E-mail reflector; Email reflector; Mailing list management software; List servers; Listserver

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A mailing list is a list of names and addresses that a company or organization keeps, so that they can send people information or advertisements.
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<messaging> (Often shortened in context to "list") An electronic mail address that is an alias (or macro, though that word is never used in this connection) which is expanded by a mail exploder to yield many other e-mail addresses. Some mailing lists are simple "reflectors", redirecting mail sent to them to the list of recipients. Others are filtered by humans or programs of varying degrees of sophistication; lists filtered by humans are said to be "moderated". The term is sometimes used, by extension, for the people who receive e-mail sent to such an address. Mailing lists are one of the primary forms of hacker interaction, along with Usenet. They predate Usenet, having originated with the first UUCP and ARPANET connections. They are often used for private information-sharing on topics that would be too specialised for or inappropriate to public Usenet groups. Though some of these maintain almost purely technical content (such as the Internet Engineering Task Force mailing list), others (like the "sf-lovers" list maintained for many years by Saul Jaffe) are recreational, and many are purely social. Perhaps the most infamous of the social lists was the eccentric bandykin distribution; its latter-day progeny, lectroids and tanstaafl, still include a number of the oddest and most interesting people in hackerdom. Mailing lists are easy to create and (unlike Usenet) don't tie up a significant amount of machine resources (until they get very large, at which point they can become interesting torture tests for mail software). Thus, they are often created temporarily by working groups, the members of which can then collaborate on a project without ever needing to meet face-to-face. There are several programs to automate mailing list maintenance, e.g. Listserv, Listproc, Majordomo. Requests to subscribe to, or leave, a mailing list should ALWAYS be sent to the list's "-request" address (e.g. ietf-request@cnri.reston.va.us for the IETF mailing list). This prevents them being sent to all recipients of the list and ensures that they reach the maintainer of the list, who may not actually read the list. [Jargon File] (2001-04-27)
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¦ noun a list of the names and addresses of people to whom advertising matter or information may be mailed regularly.

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Mailing list

A mailing list is a collection of names and addresses used by an individual or an organization to send material to multiple recipients. The term is often extended to include the people subscribed to such a list, so the group of subscribers is referred to as "the mailing list", or simply "the list."

Transmission may be paper-based or electronic. Each has its strength, although a 2022 article claimed that "direct mail still brings in the lion’s share of revenue for most organizations."

Examples of use of mailing lists
1. Such official resources include House staff while working on official time, telephones, office equipment and supplies, and official mailing lists.
2. The Web site says that if you‘re a qualified small business and want various mailing lists, call the listed 800 number.
3. Toomey, the new president of the Club for Growth, said the organization was dropping its accusations about the mailing lists and defended its initial vigilance.
4. Candidates have done their best to sign up members to their online mailing lists, but campaigners think they have probably reached less than half of them.
5. Once your name is on lots of gallery mailing lists, it is possible to get drunk as a skunk at art parties every night of the week.