Editing Mailing list (section)

==List security==
On both discussion lists and newsletter lists precautions are taken to avoid [[spamming]].

'''Discussion lists''' often require every message to be approved by a [[moderator (communications)|moderator]] before being sent to the rest of the subscribers (moderated lists), although higher-traffic lists typically only moderate messages from new subscribers. Companies sending out promotional newsletters have the option of working with [[whitelist]] mail distributors, which agree to standards and high fines from ISPs should any of the [[opt-in]] subscribers complain. In exchange for their compliance and agreement to prohibitive fines, the emails sent by whitelisted companies are not blocked by [[Email filtering|spam filters]], which often can reroute these legitimate, non-spam emails.<ref>{{Cite web
|url=http://www.bethesda-list.com/lists/what-is-a-whitelist
|title=What is a 'Whitelist' and why do I want to work with a 'Whitelisted' Mail Distributor?
|website=Bethesda List Center
|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161203110906/http://www.bethesda-list.com/lists/what-is-a-whitelist |archive-date= Dec 3, 2016 }}</ref>

===Subscription===
Some mailing lists are open to anyone who wants to join them, while others require an approval from the list owner before one may join. Joining a mailing list is called "subscribing" and leaving a list is called "unsubscribing".

===Archives===
A mailing list archive is a collection of past messages from one or more electronic mailing lists. Such archives often include searching and indexing functionality. Many archives are directly associated with the mailing list, but some organizations, such as [[Gmane]], collect archives from multiple mailing lists hosted at different organizations; thus, one message sent to one popular mailing list may end up in many different archives. Gmane had over 9,000 mailing list archives as of 16 January 2007. Some popular [[free software]] programs for collecting mailing list archives are [[Hypermail]], [[MHonArc]],<ref>[https://github.com/sympa-community/MHonArc MHonArc - A mail-to-HTML converter]</ref> [[FUDforum]], and [[public-inbox]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://public-inbox.org/README.html |title=public-inbox - an "archives first" approach to mailing lists |website=public-inbox.org |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240118050149/https://public-inbox.org/README.html |archive-date= Jan 18, 2024 }}</ref> (which is notably used for archiving the [[Linux kernel mailing list]]<ref>[https://subspace.kernel.org/software.html kernel.org: What is subspace running?]</ref> along with many other software development mailing lists<ref>{{cite web |url=https://lore.kernel.org/|title=public-inbox listing |website=lore.kernel.org |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240121213921/https://lore.kernel.org/ |archive-date= Jan 21, 2024 }}</ref> and has a web-service API used by search-and-retrieval tools intended for use by the [[Linux kernel#Developer community|Linux kernel development community]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://lwn.net/Articles/878205/|title=Digging into the community's lore with lei|work=[[LWN.net]] |date=December 13, 2021|df=ymd|first=Jonathan|last=Corbet |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20231112134713/http://lwn.net/Articles/878205/ |archive-date= Nov 12, 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/lore-lei-part-1-getting-started|title=lore+lei: part 1, getting started|date=November 5, 2021|first=Konstantin|last=Ryabitsev |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231203121032/https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/lore-lei-part-1-getting-started |archive-date= Dec 3, 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/lore-lei-part-2-now-with-imap|title=lore+lei: part 2, now with IMAP|date=November 12, 2021|first=Konstantin|last=Ryabitsev |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230605195549/https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/lore-lei-part-2-now-with-imap |archive-date= Jun 5, 2023 }}</ref>).{{citation needed|date=July 2022}}