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A mailing list is a way of having a group discussion by electronic mail and distributing announcements to a large number of people. A mailing list is very much like a
conference on a BBS, except that the conversation comes to you in
your e-mail box. Each time you or any member of the list posts a reply to the
conversation, it is distributed to the e-mail box of every member of the list.
All of this traffic is automated and managed by programs called mailing list
managers (MLMs). The two most frequently used programs are
Listserv and Majordomo.
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