Bibliothèque de L'IMIST/CNRST

Mailing lists are an ideal vehicle for creating email-based electronic communities. All you need to run a mailing list is access to a system that is connected to the Internet, a mailing list management software package, and a bit of know-how, which is where this book comes in. Managing Mailing Lists is full of practical information for the list maintainer and system administrator alike. This book covers four mailing list packages: Majordomo, LISTSERV, Listproc, and SmartList -- all of which run on UNIX systems (LISTSERV runs on a number of platforms, including Windows NT). If you are a system administrator, Managing Mailing Lists tells you what you need to know to pick a mailing list package and get it up and running on your system. If you are charged with establishing and running a list, this book covers everything you need to know about setting up and maintaining the list, from writing the charter to dealing with bounced messages. Mailing lists offer a great deal of flexibility, and this book lays out all the different options, such as creating moderated lists, controlling who can subscribe to a list, offering digest subscriptions, and archiving list postings.