Mailing Lists by Michael J. Albright Because mailing lists operate in somewhat the same manner as electronic journals such as MCJournal, many readers who have subscribed to this forum are probably already quite familiar with the concept of lists.
Lists facilitate information sharing among groups of people with common interests.
It is simply a list that contains the electronic mail addresses of all subscribers. An accurate count of the number of mailing lists is impossible to compute. A conservative estimate of the total would exceed 5,000. Bitnet, of course, is part of the Internet, so these listservers can be reached by anyone with Internet access. It is sometimes entertaining to examine the header information in list messages that traverse between Bitnet and Internet and note the convoluted paths they travel through gateways.