Mailing lists

Now we come again to a traditional media: electronic mailing lists. They are used for both announcements and discussions. If you subscribe to such a list, you will receive announcements and discussion contributions from other subscribers. You could silently receive and read all the messages, and you could send e-mails to the list address, which would then be sent to all other subscribers. Before sending a general query to the list of subscribers, you should check an FAQ list.

Today, many people prefer easily accessible media, such as web forums. However, mailing lists still exist and will be in use as long as e-mail is popular. The following mailing lists may be handy for you:

• texhax: https://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/texhax is a list for general TeX discussion, a companion to comp.text.tex, established in the 1980s. It has hundreds of subscribers, and there are many experts among them.
• tex-live: https://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-live deals with the TeX...