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Fedora Mailing Lists and other internet based mailing lists are electronic mailing lists (sometimes written as elist or e-list). It is a special usage of email that allows for widespread distribution of information to many Internet users. It is similar to a traditional mailing list — a list of names and addresses — as might be kept by an organization for sending publications to its members or customers, but typically refers to four things: a list of email addresses, the people ("subscribers") receiving mail at those addresses, the publications (e-mail messages) sent to those addresses, and a reflector, which is a single e-mail address that, when designated as the recipient of a message, will send a copy of that message to all of the subscribers. | Fedora Mailing Lists and other internet based mailing lists are electronic mailing lists (sometimes written as elist or e-list). It is a special usage of email that allows for widespread distribution of information to many Internet users. It is similar to a traditional mailing list — a list of names and addresses — as might be kept by an organization for sending publications to its members or customers, but typically refers to four things: a list of email addresses, the people ("subscribers") receiving mail at those addresses, the publications (e-mail messages) sent to those addresses, and a reflector, which is a single e-mail address that, when designated as the recipient of a message, will send a copy of that message to all of the subscribers. | ||
== | ==Join Fedora Mailing Lists== | ||
*[[Ambassadors#Meetings_.2F_Mailing_list_.2F_IRC]] | |||
*[[Artwork#How_to_Join]] | |||
*[[Infrastructure#Mailing_list]] | |||
*[[I18N#Mailing_Lists]] | |||
*[[L10N#Mailing_list]] | |||
*[[Websites#Mailing_List]] | |||
Latest revision as of 03:14, 5 January 2022
A mailing list is a collection of names and addresses used by an individual or an organization to send material to multiple recipients. The term is often extended to include the people subscribed to such a list, so the group of subscribers is referred to as "the mailing list", or simply "the list".
Fedora Mailing List
Fedora Mailing Lists and other internet based mailing lists are electronic mailing lists (sometimes written as elist or e-list). It is a special usage of email that allows for widespread distribution of information to many Internet users. It is similar to a traditional mailing list — a list of names and addresses — as might be kept by an organization for sending publications to its members or customers, but typically refers to four things: a list of email addresses, the people ("subscribers") receiving mail at those addresses, the publications (e-mail messages) sent to those addresses, and a reflector, which is a single e-mail address that, when designated as the recipient of a message, will send a copy of that message to all of the subscribers.