[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

mailing list \mailing list\ n.
   a list of names and addresses to which advertising,
   solicitations of money, or other materials material sent in
   large quantities is mailed; -- it is usually used by
   comercial or charitable organizations. mailing lists are
   often sold by organizations to other organizations, and are
   frequently used for targeted mailing, i. e., mailing to
   groups of people who are more likely htan the general
   population to respond as desired to the message in the mail.
   wordnet 1.5 +pjc

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

mailing list
     n : a list of names and addresses to which advertising material
         is mailed

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

29 moby thesaurus words for "mailing list":
   pp, rd, rfd, airmail, book post, correspondence, direct mail,
   direct-mail selling, express, fourth-class mail, frank,
   halfpenny post, junk mail, letter post, letters, mail,
   mail-order selling, newspaper post, parcel post, post, post day,
   registered mail, rural delivery, rural free delivery, sea mail,
   seapost, special delivery, special handling, surface mail

[4] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

mailing list n. often shortened in context to `list' 1. an email
   address that is an alias or macro, though that word is never used in
   this connection for many other email addresses. some mailing lists are
   simple `reflectors', redirecting mail sent to them to the list of
   recipients. others are filtered by humans or programs of varying degrees
   of sophistication; lists filtered by humans are said to be `moderated'.
   2. the people who receive your email when you send it to such an
   address.

   mailing lists are one of the primary forms of hacker interaction,
   along with usenet. they predate usenet, having originated with the
   first uucp and arpanet connections. they are often used for private
   information-sharing on topics that would be too specialized for or
   inappropriate to public usenet groups. though some of these maintain
   almost purely technical content such as the internet engineering task
   force mailing list, others like the `sf-lovers' list maintained for
   many years by saul jaffe are recreational, and many are purely social.
   perhaps the most infamous of the social lists was the eccentric bandykin
   distribution; its latter-day progeny, lectroids and tanstaafl, still
   include a number of the oddest and most interesting people in hackerdom.

   mailing lists are easy to create and unlike usenet don't tie up a
   significant amount of machine resources until they get very large, at
   which point they can become interesting torture tests for mail
   software. thus, they are often created temporarily by working groups,
   the members of which can then collaborate on a project without ever
   needing to meet face-to-face. much of the material in this lexicon was
   criticized and polished on just such a mailing list called
   `jargon-friends', which included all the co-authors of steele-1983.


see also:
email macro usenet 

[5] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

mailing list
     
         often shortened in context to "list" an
        electronic mail address that is an alias or macro, though
        that word is never used in this connection which is expanded
        by a mail exploder to yield many other e-mail addresses.
        some mailing lists are simple "reflectors", redirecting mail
        sent to them to the list of recipients.  others are filtered
        by humans or programs of varying degrees of sophistication;
        lists filtered by humans are said to be "moderated".
     
        the term is sometimes used, by extension, for the people who
        receive e-mail sent to such an address.
     
        mailing lists are one of the primary forms of hacker
        interaction, along with usenet.  they predate usenet,
        having originated with the first uucp and arpanet
        connections.  they are often used for private
        information-sharing on topics that would be too specialised
        for or inappropriate to public usenet groups.  though some
        of these maintain almost purely technical content such as the
        internet engineering task force mailing list, others like
        the "sf-lovers" list maintained for many years by saul jaffe
        are recreational, and many are purely social.  perhaps the
        most infamous of the social lists was the eccentric bandykin
        distribution; its latter-day progeny, lectroids and
        tanstaafl, still include a number of the oddest and most
        interesting people in hackerdom.
     
        mailing lists are easy to create and unlike usenet don't
        tie up a significant amount of machine resources until they
        get very large, at which point they can become interesting
        torture tests for mail software.  thus, they are often
        created temporarily by working groups, the members of which
        can then collaborate on a project without ever needing to meet
        face-to-face.
     
        there are several programs to automate mailing list
        maintenance, e.g. listserv, listproc, majordomo.
     
        requests to subscribe to, or leave, a mailing list should
        always be sent to the list's "-request" address e.g.
        ietf-request@cnri.reston.va.us for the ietf mailing list.
        this prevents them being sent to all recipients of the list
        and ensures that they reach the maintainer of the list, who
        may not actually read the list.
     
        jargon file
     
        2001-04-27
     
     
see also:
electronic mail address macro mail exploder usenet uucp arpanet 
internet engineering task force lectroid tanstaafl listserv listproc 
majordomo jargon file 

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