Internet Chapter 7

¤ A mailing list is a list of email addresses and names for a group of people who share a common interest in subject or topic and exchange information by subscribing to the list.

¤ Any information sent to a mailing list is delivered automatically to every e-mail address on the list.

¤ When you subscribe to a mailing list, leave the Cc, Bcc, and Subject line(s) blank.

¤ To join a mailing list, type subscribe listname yourname on one line in the message area as your subscription request.

¤ When you subscribe to a mailing list, you provide your first and last names.

¤ If the mailing-list server returns your subscription request without processing it, make sure that you spelled the word subscribe correctly, typed your first and last names, and did not include a signature file.

¤ Sometimes the mailing-list server will send you a confirmation message that you must return so it can confirm your e-mail address.

¤ Posting a message means to send an e-mail message to a mailing list.

¤ After the list server processes your document-retrieval commands, it returns the requested files to you by e-mail.

¤ MIME is the general standard for PCs for e-mail encoding.

¤ Binary data that people send daily through e-mail messages include programs, spreadsheets, and digital photographs.

¤ ASCII codes do not provide enough unique characters to represent graphics.

¤ To look up a friend, you use a white pages directory service.

¤ A yellow pages directory searches business directories.

¤ To use a directory search engine, you send your keywords to the server.

¤ You can use the Web’s white pages or yellow pages sites to search for a person’s e-mail address.

¤ The SEARCH.COM tool can access and search e-mail addresses, white pages listings, and yellow pages listings.

¤ Commercial mailing lists allow advertisers to send percipients promotional materials for specific product or categories of products.

¤ It is possible to find college courses conducted through mailing lists.

¤ When you send a message to a newsgroup, anyone with Internet access and a news reader can read it.

¤ When you send a message to a mailing list, only the list’s members can read it.

¤ It is not uncommon to receive hundreds of messages within a couple of days of joining a particularly active mailing list.

¤ You do not need to know how to use you’re e-mail program to access a newsgroup.

¤ A mailing list program automatically responds to subscription requests.

¤ A list server might delete archived messages periodically to recover disk space.