Reference information 1. Electronic discussion lists, also called mailing lists, promote exchanges via e-mail between individuals interested in a particular topic. This mailing list will serve as a forum for discussing course content and issues in History 291H, European Witchcraft in Comparative Perspective, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Mailing lists work on a very simple principle.
When you send a normal e-mail message, you type in the address of all the recipients. A copy of the message goes to each of them. Every message sent to that address gets distributed to each subscriber of the list. The distribution is handled by mailing list software. This program has its own address, called the listserv address.