How to tell if a list is a mailman list
Context
- Email distribution lists at MIT
- Mailman (managed list service) vs. Moira (simple email distribution) lists
Answer
If you are comfortable using the Athena command line
On Athena, you can run blanche to enumerate the members of an mit.edu email list. If it is a Mailman list you will see a single member, pointing at the Mailman server:
% blanche LISTNAME LISTNAME@mailman.mit.edu
Here's an actual example of a Mailman announcement list:
% blanche rt-announce rt-announce@mailman.mit.edu
If you are comfortable using the Moira web interface
If you're using the Moira web application (http://mit.edu/moira/), you can look up the list members using that instead. Below is a screen shot showing the output of the same example used above: