A mailing list is a mechanism for distributing a single note to many people. IT supports a mailing list management package called Mailman.
Mailman is a popular package used all over the Internet. It manages many aspects of mailing lists, including subscriptions, unsubscriptions, moderation (i.e. approval of submissions), redistribution of notes, archiving notes, and combining notes into daily, weekly, quarterly, monthly, or yearly digests.
List owners can configure and administrate their list(s) through the web interface at http://mailman.ucalgary.ca. Users can also subscribe to publically advertised lists here.
There are many different mailing lists on the University of Calgary's Mailman service. Some of them are centrally administered, while some are administered by individuals on behalf of their department, research group, club, or other group. Instructors may request a mailing list containing the e-mail addresses of all the students in their class. This is useful for announcements and discussion among the instructor and students.
