Perl Mongers provided services including web hosting, mailing lists, and user group leader discussions.
On the other hand there are mailing lists people subscribe to.
"A lot of friends and family will be off mailing lists."
This latter approach is used, for example, in database triggers, mailing lists, and RSS.
Check on those mailing lists" - he was swinging to the other - "and make it swift, Wallingham.
There are even mailing lists for discussing techniques and experiences with MLDs (material love dolls) .
LOPSA sponsors and hosts mailing lists to serve the community.
Another special case are mailing lists, where the list server rewrites all reverse paths to its own error handling address for bounces (error messages) by recipients.
They have mailed lists of Congressmen who "support pornography" to hundreds of thousands of voters.
In order to avoid that, such groups of users may ask a technical expert to build them mailing lists, a webpage and maybe to set up an etherpad.