What Is the Difference Between Mail List & News Group?
Mailing lists and newsgroups enable people with similar interests to share ideas and communicate with one another online. To join a mailing list, members must reveal their email addresses, while visitors to a newsgroup can remain entirely anonymous.
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What They Are
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Both mailing lists and newsgroups cover a broad range of topics, from sports to religion to technology. A mailing list functions as an online club of people with similar interests, and only members can access the list. A newsgroup works like a public information board, where anyone can post or read information on the newsgroup's topic.
Joining
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To join a particular mailing list, you must send an email to the list's subscription email address, stating that you wish to join. Newsgroups don't require memberships--you simply connect to a newsgroup through a computer program, called a newsreader, and post to or read newsgroups within the newsreader software.
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Communication
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When any member of a mailing list sends a message to the list, only members of the list receive the email. In a newsgroup, any member of the public with the appropriate software can view messages sent to any newsgroup.
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