Advice for Mailing List Owners

Kirrily Robert

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. So you want to run a mailing list
2.1. Introspection
2.2. Market research
3. Setting up your list
3.1. List software
3.1.1. Majordomo
3.1.2. Mailman
3.1.3. Ezmlm
3.1.4. LISTSERV
3.1.5. Lyris
3.1.6. Free list hosting services
3.2. A list by any other name...
3.3. Publicity
4. Early days
4.1. Configuration hassles
4.1.1. Membership policy
4.1.2. Moderation
4.1.3. Archiving
4.1.4. Reply-to headers
4.1.5. Subject tags
4.2. The welcome message
4.3. Intros
5. Smooth running
5.1. The golden rule
5.2. On topic?
5.3. Being a net.cop
5.4. Conflict resolution
5.5. Do you need a listmom?
5.6. Managing many lists
5.7. Automate, automate, automate!
6. Death of a list
6.1. Natural causes
6.2. Lists that never take off
6.3. Crash and burn