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What can you do with mailing lists?
Table of Contents
· Introduction
· · What does Lyris List Manager Do?
· · · What is a mailing list?
· · · What can you do with mailing lists?
· · · How does Lyris List Manager fulfill this service?
· · · What else does Lyris List Manager do?
· · What do you need to use it?
· · Feature Overview
· · What different roles are there?
· Email Commands
· Web Interface for Users
· Server Administrator
· Site Administrator
· List Administrator
· Other Topics
· Add-On Packages
· Installing and Upgrading
· Appendix
· Frequently Asked Questions

What can you do with mailing lists?

There are many kinds of mailing lists that we categorize into roughly three types:

Announcement lists: These are typically used to distribute information about a product, a service, an event or other noteworthy information. In most cases, the organization that runs the mailing list controls what information is sent out.

Open discussion: Anyone who is a member of the mailing list can submit information to be distributed to the entire group. In this way, a group discussion can take place.

Moderated forums/discussions: A hybrid of the two types above, where members of the group can submit information to be distributed to the entire group, but submissions need to go through an approval process before they are distributed.

Lyris List Manager also allows you to create auto-responders. These are email "robots" which reply to any incoming electronic mail with a specific document. For instance, pricing@your-company.com could send back a product pricing sheet to anyone who wrote to it.

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