An automated mailing list or list server is a software program that allows people to correspond with each other via electronic mail. With a list server, a computer program keeps track of everyone's name and email address. Individual subscribers cannot send messages to other subscribers to the list. They are merely recipients of the owner's postings. JSIS-UW , the Jackson School of International Studies Calendar List, is an example of an electronic journal.
Some lists have extremely few messages with only a couple of postings a week or a month.
Others can generate five, ten or more messages a day. The former is the one you use to correspond with the list subscribers. Always send commands to the list server software address. Commands vary slightly depending on the type of automated software used. Also see Indiana University's help pages on mailing list .