An
electronic mailing list or
email list is a special use of
email that allows for widespread distribution of information to many
Internet users. It is similar to a traditional
mailing list — a list of names and addresses — as might be kept by an organization for sending publications to its members or customers, but typically refers to four things:
- a list of email addresses,
- the people ("subscribers") receiving mail at those addresses,
- the publications (email messages) sent to those addresses, and
- a reflector, which is a single email address that, when designated as the recipient of a message, will send a copy of that message to all of the subscribers.