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2 Introduction to GNU Mailman</A>
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GNU Mailman is software that lets you manage electronic mailing lists.
It supports a wide range of mailing list types, such as general
discussion lists and announce-only lists. Mailman has extensive
features for controlling the privacy of your lists, distributing your
list as personalized postings or digests, gatewaying postings to and
from Usenet, and providing automatic bounce detection. Mailman
provides a built-in archiver, multiple natural languages, as well as
advanced content and topic filtering.
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Mailman provides several interfaces to its functionality. Most list
administrators will primarily use the web interface to customize their
lists. There is also a limited email command interface to the
administrative functions, as well as a command line interface if you
have shell access on the Mailman server. This document does not cover
the command line interface; see the GNU Mailman site administrator's
manual for more details.
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