Many people are discovering that the scripting language Perl is the most useful language for getting many computing tasks done. In this article Dave Cross takes a brief look at Perl Mailing Lists. N. B. - This article first appeared in the December 1999 issue of the online Perl magazine PerlMonth . Introduction Over that last few months I've covered most of the ways that you get information to help you with your Perl programming. There is one major source of information left.
Mailing lists are a great way to get information about a particular area of interest.
You'll get a confirmation email back, explaining how the list works. One of the pieces of information in this email will be the email address where you should send emails that you want distributed to the group. Any mails that you send to this address are copied to everyone who has subscribed to the list. One slight difference to this procedure that is becoming more common is the ability to subscribe to mailing lists across the Web. This means that you have to be careful that you are sending your email to the right list.