List Serve
What is a list serve - Lyris is a powerful email list server that automatically delivers your newsletters, announcements and discussion lists. Since the 1970s, people have been joining "mailing lists" to talk about their favorite topics via e-mail! Internet mailing lists aren't for ads, as some people mistakenly believe.
Internet mailing lists are (usually) just communities of people sitting around discussing one of their favorite topics by e-mail. For example, fans of bluegrass music can join BGRASS-L, and meet other bluegrass fans, and talk about bluegrass via e-mail.
The mailing list formatlends itself to calm, thoughtful, literate, mature discussion, where relationships between the list members actually grow and deepen over an extended period of time. Most Internet experts feel that the mailing list format is the most civilized type of online community.
