An electronic mailing list is a special usage of email that allows for widespread distribution of information to many Internet users. It is similar to a traditional mailing list — a list of names and addresses — as might be kept by an organization for sending publications to its members or customers, but typically refers to four things — a list of email addresses, the people ("subscribers") receiving mail at those addresses, the publications (email messages) sent to those addresses, and a reflector, which is a single email address that, when designated as the recipient of a message, will send a copy of that message to all of the subscribers.

Contents

• 1 How automated electronic mailing lists work
• 2 Types
  • 2.1 Announcement list
  • 2.2 Discussion list
• 3 List security
  • 3.1 Subscription
• 4 Archives
• 5 See also
• 6 References
• 7 External links

Noun

email (countable and uncountable; plural emails)

1. Alternative spelling of e-mail.

• Many speakers consider the spelling e-mail more correct; however, both spellings are quite common.
• Noting that mail is not countable in common usage, certain style guides recommend against the countable use of email, preferring such phrasings as email message; however, such countable use is quite common.

• By Topic (1)

• Directories (6)
• FAQs, Help, and Tutorials (7)
• Hosted Services (45)
• List Management Software@ (33)

• Business: Marketing and Advertising: Internet Marketing: Marketing Services: Opt-In Email (67)
• Computers: Internet: On the Web: Online Communities (509)
• News: Magazines and E-zines: E-zines (50)

• Mail Archive
  mail-archive.com
  Archiving service for public mailing lists.
• The Natural Life Cycle of Mailing Lists
  oii.org
  Every list seems to go through the same cycle.