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What is a "mailing list"? How do I subscribe to one? Where can I find lists that interest me? How do I get off such a behemoth? What types of mailing lists are there? Can I run my own? What software do I need?

These and similar questions we tackle in this series. Everything you need to know about the original communities of the Internet: its mailing lists.

Today, we try to find some systematics in the vast, tangled mass of different types of mailing lists (or at least force it upon them): moderated and anarchic lists, announcement and discussion, open and closed mailing lists, digests, ...

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