Talk:Electronic mailing list

message: Something should be written about US law regarding the Can Spam act, and how companies must comply.  To my knowledge companies in the US are no longer allowed to sell actual e-mail addresses, but if you pay them (InfoUSA for example) they will spam on your behalf.  InfoUSA owns the e-list, but cannot legally sell it.  This is unlike regular mailing lists since companies can still sell physical addresses.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.214.248.31 (talk) 17:09, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can Spam 

message: how can the mailing list or email software technically decide how to indent the threads correctly? -- Hahih (talk) 12:59, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  thread indentation 

message: The term "electronic mailing list" is too cumbersome to be used widely in day to day use.  No other term has become widely used.  I sense that "listserv" (Note lower case "l" ) is becoming used generically for both the servers and individual lists.
Like Kleenex I think the term is slipping into generic use and I support this.
(The Listserv Wikipedia entry notes the use (for servers) and discourages it.)
: I don't think it is. Yahoo calls them groups or email groups,  Bugtraq is referred to as a mailing list, in Debian jargon, they're called just lists or mailing lists, ... --Joy [shallot]
BTW the article does not mention the main advantage for listservs.
Mail comes TO participants (assuming they check their
mail)  rather than them having to come to the discussion.  This is a huge
advantage for many topics.  For the largest discussions (lots of messages)
it is also a disadvantage.
Fred Olson
Communications for Justice
http://justcomm.org
:"Listserv" is a product name. The most common term in the IETF (which relies very heavily on them) is "list server". And for "electronic mailing list", one says "mailing list"; people tend to forget that there ever existed any other kind. --Alvestrand 02:40, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: About the term "listserv"

message: Pretty much every open source software I've seen uses a mailing list like GNU Mailman.  Could be mentioned.
Personally, I hate them.  There must be some good reasons why they are used?  — Omegatron 03:36, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  OSS 

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thread_title: Seeking feedback on [[Google Groups]] article

message: We eschew commercial links for fear of allowing entries to act like advertisements, but I see recent additions to #Mailing list services pointing to Yahoo, Google and MSN Groups, along with other providers.  Anyone object if we re-word that section to avoid mention of any particular vendor?  We should be descriptive without showing favouritism by providing examples.   --ghoti 05:48, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Commercial links? 

message: User:16%40r added a tag to merge this article with Mailing list.  However, looking over the page history, it appears that this article was deliberately split because non-electronic mailing lists should have their own article.   I have not read either article carefully, so maybe there needs to be cleanup/separation of these articles, or this distinction is no longer needed.  Wrs1864 (talk) 11:33, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I do care. This has been very confusing as everyone refers to "electronic mailing list" as just "mailing list". Not sure if I should just go ahead and do it. — Kennyluck (talk) 02:07, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm for the merge as long as it is done well. Marcus Qwertyus  04:10, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with [[Mailing list]] 

message: I don't see much about the first appearance of electronic mailing lists. Here two examples for long term lists (started in 1991):
* http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/
* http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/
Others? Bumbulski (talk) 05:15, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: I have added a paragraph about the history of mailing lists with three academic references (disclaimer : I am one of the authors of two references). The text has been adapted from the third reference, which has been published under a CC-BY licence, and from the Computational Chemistry List article.Alexandre Hocquet (talk) 04:14, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  History