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mailing list
(encz) | mailing list,poštovní adresář luke |
mailing list
(gcide) | mailing list \mailing list\ n.
A list of names and addresses to which advertising,
solicitations of money, or other materials material sent in
large quantities is mailed; -- it is usually used by
comercial or charitable organizations. Mailing lists are
often sold by organizations to other organizations, and are
frequently used for targeted mailing, i. e., mailing to
groups of people who are more likely htan the general
population to respond as desired to the message in the mail.
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mailing list
(wn) | mailing list
n 1: a list of names and addresses to which advertising material
is mailed |
mailing list
(foldoc) | mailing list
(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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mailing list
(jargon) | mailing list
n.
(often shortened in context to list)
1. An email address that is an alias (or macro, though that word is
never used in this connection) for many other email 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.
2. The people who receive your email when you send it 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 specialized 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. Much of the material in this lexicon was criticized and
polished on just such a mailing list (called ‘jargon-friends’), which
included all the co-authors of Steele-1983.
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