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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>mailing list</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="mailbomb.html" title="mailbomb"/><link rel="next" href="main-loop.html" title="main loop"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">mailing list</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mailbomb.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="main-loop.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="mailing-list"/><dt xmlns="" id="mailing-list"><b>mailing list</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> (often shortened in context to <span class="firstterm">list</span>)</p></dd><dd><p> 1. An <a href="../E/email.html"><i class="glossterm">email</i></a> address that is an alias (or
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<a href="macro.html"><i class="glossterm">macro</i></a>, though that word is never used in this
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connection) for many other email addresses. Some mailing lists are simple
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<span class="firstterm">reflectors</span>, redirecting mail sent to
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them to the list of recipients. Others are filtered by humans or programs
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of varying degrees of sophistication; lists filtered by humans are said to
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be <span class="firstterm">moderated</span>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. The people who receive your email when you send it to such an
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address.</p></dd><dd><p>Mailing lists are one of the primary forms of hacker interaction,
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along with <a href="../U/Usenet.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet</i></a>. They predate Usenet, having
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originated with the first UUCP and ARPANET connections. They are often
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used for private information-sharing on topics that would be too
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specialized for or inappropriate to public Usenet groups. Though some of
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these maintain almost purely technical content (such as the Internet
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Engineering Task Force mailing list), others (like the
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‘sf-lovers’ list maintained for many years by Saul Jaffe) are
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recreational, and many are purely social. Perhaps the most infamous of the
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social lists was the eccentric <tt class="systemitem">bandykin</tt> distribution; its latter-day progeny,
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<tt class="systemitem">lectroids</tt> and <tt class="systemitem">tanstaafl</tt>, still include a number of the
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oddest and most interesting people in hackerdom.</p><p>Mailing lists are easy to create and (unlike Usenet) don't tie up a
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significant amount of machine resources (until they get very large, at
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which point they can become interesting torture tests for mail software).
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Thus, they are often created temporarily by working groups, the members of
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which can then collaborate on a project without ever needing to meet
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face-to-face. Much of the material in this lexicon was criticized and
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polished on just such a mailing list (called ‘jargon-friends’),
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which included all the co-authors of Steele-1983.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mailbomb.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="main-loop.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">mailbomb </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> main loop</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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