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You want to start a mailing list of your own. All you have to do is find somebody with an Internet computer on-line 24 hours a day.
The computer that takes care of your mailing list is called a server. The server has to have a program in it that can take care of your mailing list. Programs that can do this are available free of charge at FTP-sites. The odds are (if your internet provider is a large one) that your internet provider already has one and knows how to use it.
Now that you have a mailing list located in an internet computer all you have to do is tell people about it. Visit usenet groups that discuss related questions and leave messages about your new mailing list. Your list can be an open list or it can be a closed list.
An open list is one that anybody can join. They just send one word to your list (subscribe) and they have joined.
A closed list is reserved for the select few. You decide who gets to join.
A list doesn´t have to have hundreds of members. I know of one that only had 5. They were writing a book together and lived a long ways from one another, so a list was a practical way for them to cooperate. When the book was published they had still not seen each other IRL! (IRL = in real life)
Their book was published in 1994: Managing Internet Information Services, By Liu, Peek, Jones, Buus and Nye.