The Internet provides thousands of free virtual clubs available to anyone with online access and an email program to join. Here s a WebNovice tutorial explaining what mailing lists are and how to join them. Mailing lists have been around the Internet almost since it began. They re a terrific way for people with a common interest to get together and exchange ideas and news. And, like newsgroups, there are mailing lists that cover just about any subject under the sun.
Lists can be very formal or informal depending on the main topic.
One of the reasons you might have got hooked up to the Internet was the handy way of using email to keep in touch with friends and relatives. But, there s another way you can use email to correspond with other people who have interests the same as you mailing lists. Any messages sent to the list manager that are intended for the list members get delivered to every member on the list in their mailbox. When a member of the list logs onto the Internet with their email program, the list messages are delivered just like any other email. In other words, if you send a message to the list, everyone who is subscribed to receive messages from the list will get them.