But in general
A Mailing-list is done through e-mail using SMTP. How does a mailing-list work? Well, when you send an e-mail to a certain address, you will receive all e-mails that is sent to that address. However your e-mail address must be on that server's list of e-mail address, in order to receive e-mails from the server.
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