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From: jon@lindy.Stanford.EDU (Jon Corelis)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: How do you set up a mailing list?
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Date: 25 Nov 89 22:09:53 GMT
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   While reading the net I've come across references to mailing lists
that seem to be "automatic" -- that is, you can send mail to
listname@site and it is forwarded, I assume without the need for
specific action by the listkeeper, to all the people on the list.  When
you receive mail via such a list, all you see in the header is the list
name, not all the addresses on the list.  If you reply to such a list
with the R utility, your reply gets sent to everyone on the list.

   Have I got the workings of this right?  And if I do, can someone tell
me how to set up such a list, or point me to the proper documentation?
I have documentation that tells me how to set up a simple local mailing
list via the alias command, but this doesn't seem to work quite the same
way.  For one thing, all the addressees appear in the header, which
could get awkward if the list is large.

   Thanks for any information,


                                    Jon

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