Sympa was designed to manage multiple mailing lists built on a common base, rather than being only side-byside mailing lists without any link between them. The system's architecture puts the virtual mailing list servers under the control of the various listmasters, each of which manages its own set of mailing lists. Like Apache’s virtual host, Sympa can manage numerous mailing list services (ca...

In this paper, we report a Japanese language resource for answering how-type questions. It was developed it by using mails posted to a mailing list. We show a QA system based on this language resource.

A diploma mailing assembly line. That was one of the ways that The Ohio State University's commencement activities looked different in spring 2020.

Electronic mailing lists are ubiquitous community-forging tools that serve the important needs of Internet users, both experienced and novice. The most popular mailing list managers generally use textual mail-based interfaces for all list operations, from subscription management to list administration. Unfortunately, anecdotal evidence suggests that most mailing list users, and many list admini...

Mailing lists provide a rich set of data that can be used to improve and enhance our understanding of software processes and practices. This information allows us to study development characteristics like team structure, activity, and social interaction. In this paper, we perform an exploratory study on the GNOME project and recover operational knowledge from mailing list discussions. Our findi...

Nonmonetary incentives lead to small increases in response rates to mailed questionnaires. However, inclusion of a pen or pencil, which may be a facilitating factor as well as a reward, has not been shown to improve response to health surveys in prior trials. In 2001 and 2002, the authors conducted two US trials in which a study-logo pen or pencil was randomly included in a second questionnaire...