34.1. Introduction to Mailing Lists and Majordomo

Mailing lists provide a way of facilitating group discussions via email or broadcasting messages to multiple email addresses. At its heart, a mailing list is simply an email address that forwards all mail sent to it to a list of member addresses. Typically, messages are modified so that replies go back to the list address instead of to the original sender, making it easy for members to participate in a group discussion via email.

Majordomo is the most popular mailing list management program for Linux and UNIX systems. As well as forwarding mail from the list address to members, it handles subscription and unsubscription, moderation, and message filtering. It can append headers and footers to messages, ...

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