Postal mailing lists [change] Some people, or organisations,
like companies have many addresses of different people. They use
these addresses to send the same mail to these addresses they
have. In the postal system, using regular mail, such mailing
lists are used to distribute these mails, which may be wanted
(like newspapers) or unwanted (advertising). Electronic mailing
lists [change] In the electronic form, these differences also
exist. Bulk mailings (SPAM) is distributed using mailing lists.
On the other hand there are mailing lists people subscribe to.
Every time, someone sends a mail to the mailing list, this mail
is distributed to all people who are on the list. The Software
which manages such a mailing list sometimes offers options to
the people who subscribe. Instead of getting each mail directly,
they might want only one mail (per day). This mail then contains
all the mails of that day. This is called a digest. Also, mails
that come from people on the list might be handled differently
from mails fro