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What is Mailman?
Mailman is an email list management tool. The University Computing and Telecommunications department hosts Mailman to enable the creation and maintenance of email discussion lists for faculty, staff and sponsored student organizations.
What is an email discussion list?
Email lists are used at SJSU for many purposes. Their primary use is to enable ease of communication between faculty-students, inter-department communications, and interest lists for SJSU or global audiences.
How do I find out more about email discussion lists?
Mailman is well documented at the following Web URL: http://www.list.org
Aurora University has produced an informative List Owner guide for Mailman at http://staff.imsa.edu/~ckolar/mailman/mailman-administration-v2.html

Are there public email lists at SJSU?
Yes, see the primary Mailman list information page at http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo for a listing of public email lists.
I'd like to have a discussion list set up. How do I go about it?
Download the Mailman Email List Request Form [Word doc]. Simply complete the form (press F1 for help on completing any of the fields) and email it to mailman-owner@lists.sjsu.edu. Turnaround time is usually 3 business days.

Are there other email list hosting sites?
There are a number of external email hosting sites, the two best known are
- http://groups.google.com
- http://groups.yahoo.com
Both of these sites offer Web-enabled list maintenance and archiving, and straightforward instructions for subscribing or signing on new members to your list. The downside of these external lists is that you and your list subscribers are subject to varying degrees of commercial advertising.
I still have some questions about email lists.
Write to mailman-owner@lists.sjsu.edu

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