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electronic mailing list

An automated email system on the Internet, which is maintained by subject matter. There are thousands of such lists that reach millions of individuals and businesses. New users generally subscribe by sending an email with the word "subscribe" in it and subsequently receive all new postings made to the list automatically. Mailing lists are also called "listprocs" and "listservs," the latter coming from the popular LISTSERV package. Majordomo is a popular public domain mailing list program. See LISTSERV.

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The question arose on the EditWrite discussion list in mid-January, and the response from editors was quick, concise, vigorous, and nearly unanimous.

Editing cartoons? A Masthead quick shot

Members of the i2Coalition's new Internet Safety Working Group and its Abuse Reporting Discussion List will be participating in M3AAWG meetings and committee work as the two organizations collaborate on threats aimed at the Internet's infrastructure.

Abuse, will fight spam, Malware and other cloud and hosting threats

A Bharat Stage IV diesel engine for GM's Tavera is high on the discussion list, as the US auto maker seeks to keep the multipurpose vehicle, its warhorse in India, in the range beyond 2017 when the current emission standards will become obsolete.

General Motors in talks with Isuzu

Iran is expected to be at the top of the discussion list for the two world leaders.

Obama to Meet with Netanyahu

MANHATTAN--Faisal Alam, a queer-identified Muslim activist of Pakistani descent, started an e-mail discussion list for LGBT Muslims.

Queer Muslim activist comes to k-state

Useful websites for teaching are often shared on the AAMT email discussion list (for more information about the list, see www.aamt.edu.au/Professionalnetworking/AAMT-email-list); one website that was discussed recently was the online graphing calculator Desmos (www.desmos.com), which is certainly worth a look.

Editorial

Most recently, this subject became a topic of discussion on an orientation and mobility (O&M) e-mail discussion list to which I belong.

Editor's page

Bartel, a library director at a high school, and Holley, a youth librarian, cull about 1,100 titles from the Young Adult Library Service Association-BK electronic discussion list from 2005 to 2010 to help librarians advise teen readers.

Annotated book lists for every teen reader; the best from the experts at YALSA-BK. (CD-ROM included)

In addition to the portal, a discussion list was used to allow for asynchronous exchanges.

The dynamics of online communities in the activity theory framework

5, when it was inadvertently made public on a discussion list. But there has been some debate about the seriousness of the flaw.

SSL flaw could have been used to hack Twitter

From his early years as a library advisor at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India, to his active participation in the Chemistry Division of SLA since 1991, Roth shares his knowledge and insights with the global chemical community through the Chemical Information Sources (CHMINF-L) email discussion list and his renowned Hall of Fame/Hall of Shame postings to that list.

SLA inducts three info pro luminaries into SLA Hall of Fame

And even though passions sometimes run high, the arguments rarely devolve into the flame wars and ad hominem attacks that have driven me from many an online discussion list.