Mailing Lists Questions and Answers

Q. What is mailing list?
A. A mailing list is a list of people who subscribe to a periodic mailing distribution on a particular topic.
Q. What are the different types of mailing lists?
A.
A sophisticated mailing list is managed by a software called mailing list server (e.g. Mailman, Majordomo, etc), which manages membership, provides mail archives, content filtering, etc. For instances, both announce@Taioaan.org and members@TAAGWC.org were created and owned by Taioaan.org and TAAGWC.org respectively.

Mailing lists offered by portal sites such as Yahoo.com and Google.com. These types of mailing lists have more limitations and mainly controlled by portal sites. E.g. TAAGWCMembers@googlegroups.com is associated with GoogleGroups.com which is owned by Google. TAAGWCMembers@googlegroups.com is not associated with TAAGWC.org.

Alias mailing list: An individual may place other users' email addresses under his/her address book with an alias such as: myList, myFriends, etc. Strictly speaking, this type of list is not a mailing list. It is not managed by a mailing list server. It does not provide an automation tool for subscribing and unsubscribing. In the past, some people setup this type of mailing list and kept spamming the users in his/her list. Further, they refused honoring other people's requests for unsubscribing from the list.
Q. How to stop spammers?
A. There is no good way to stop spammers who have plenty of time than you have for sending out junk mails. If you are receiving spam emails, you may
report it to email abuse centers. E.g. groups-abuse@googlegroups.com (for reporting spam to mailing list managed googlegroups.com).
mark those emails as spam to avoid junk mails showing up in your in-box.
create a new email address and treat the old email address as a junk mail holder and never check that mailbox.
Q. How to subscribe/unsubscribe to/from a mailing list?
A. Good mailing list administrators provide links for subscription and/or unsubscription. You, as the owner of your email addresses, have every right to unsubscribe from any mailing lists, since mailing list owners/creators only own the mailing lists. They don't own your email addresses.
Both Taioaan.org and TAAGWC.org have the following links for subscription/unsubscription automation tool:

http://Taioaan.org/mailman/listinfo/announce_taioaan.org

http://TAAGWC.org/mailman/listinfo/members_taagwc.org
To unsubscribe or update your email address in a mailing list, you need to enter your membership password which can be retrieved by sending an email to a mailing list server. E.g. To get your membership password in announce@Taioaan.org and members@TAAGWC.org lists, send emails to announce-request@Taioaan.org and members-request@TAAGWC.org with a single word in the mail content: password (Note: leave the subject blank).
Q. How to retrieve archived emails?
A. Both announce@Taioaan.org and members@TAAGWC.org provide email archives. To retrieve old mails, you may open the following links:

    http://Taioaan.org/pipermail/announce_taioaan.org

    http://TAAGWC.org/pipermail/members_taagwc.org

Note: Since members@TAAGWC.org was created on Wed Dec 19 06:03:00 MST 2007 by TACPA.org and was hosted on Taioaan.org, you may retrieve older emails prior to TAAGWC.org's move via the following link:
http://Taioaan.org/pipermail/members_taagwc.org

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