Mailing List | Internet Fundamentals
Mailing List
A mailing list is a set of email addresses. Here, a list of Email addresses are identified by a single name, for example –Work. When an Email message is sent to the mailing list name (= Work), it is automatically forwarded to all the email addresses in the list. Here Work is a mailing list name.
Most e-mail clients support mailing lists, which enables you to broadcast e-mail messages to groups that you define. You can go through following link to make your own mailing list in Gmail.
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Mailing-List-in-Gmail
A mailing list may be utilized to send advertisements or other relevant information to individuals included on the list. For example, a company may acquire a mailing list that only includes people that do the majority of their shopping over the Internet. Some companies rent mailing lists for a designated cost and some create their own list through business interactions. A magazine publisher has a list of the mailing addresses of all the subscribers to the magazine.
There are two types of mailing lists:
- Announcement lists
- Discussion Lists
Announcement Lists
An announcement mailing list transmits one-way messages, with no direct replies to the group.
Announcement lists are used so that one person or group can send announcements to a group of people. If you send product notifications, press releases, policy announcements or newsletters, a mailing list does everything you need.
Discussion Lists
A discussion mailing list automatically emails everyone in a group and transmits all replies to the entire group.
With a discussion mailing list, list members share their thoughts and receive feedback from the group.
Usually, anyone on the list can start a new discussion. In some cases, a list member can receive messages without being able to send them to the list.
A discussion list is used to allow a group of people to discuss topics of their interest. This discussion may also be moderated, so only selected posts are sent on to the group as a whole, or only certain people are allowed to send to the group.
- On the Internet, mailing lists include each person’s e-mail address rather than a postal address
- There are an estimated 30,000 mailing lists that you can subscribe to
- The email server does all the hard work
- List users benefit from sharing the brainpower of the people in the group
- Mail lists allow people to join (subscribe) or leave (unsubscribe) them at any time
