Mailing Lists

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Mailing List

What is the technology about?

It is a list of E-mail addresses for people you want to communicate with. It is a platform for people to communicate It is a list emails configured into one email for a purpose of disseminating to all

Describe ho the technology is used to support Network communication

It helps dissemination of information to many people at the same time and also to provide feed back e.g. WOUGNET has a mailing list where it sends information to its network members and receives feed back

It encourages team collaboration

A mailing list is not different from the usual email address, only that one email address is used for a group of people.

Mailing List require moderators and some do not

A mailing list can be created for an event

Examples of mailing list are yahoo groups, dgroups, google

A mailing list can also be configured on a space given by a host e.g. Kabisa space. A mailing list can also be used as storage medium

Types of mailing list

One way - here you are not able to receive feed back Two way - here you are able to receive feed back

Strength/Advantages

It is able to reach out to many people at the same time It is not time consuming- instant It is easily accessed It is used to distribute big documents/storage It is a means of communication and feed back It costs less.

Weaknesses

Spam discourages members to subscribe to mailing lists especially when the mailing list is not under moderation.

There is no secrecy It does not have cost implications. It has to be connected on the internet At times the mailing is full of irrelevant information It disseminates too much information which at times you are not able to read.

How to find out more about this technology

Use search engines such as Google and type in ask.com to obtain a much smaller search You can also use a yahoo search engine.