【英语】 an electronic discussion list是啥？怎么翻译比较好？

[chuchu]

最近读书遇到这么一段话，涉及到an electronic discussion list一词，我知道有电子邮件列表，但不知道这是什么？

原文如下：

[FONT=宋体, MS Song]This collection arises out of an exchange some years ago between Julia Bolton Holloway and R. A. Ross on Med-Rel, an electronic discussion list dedicated to the study of medieval religion. List[/FONT][FONT=宋体, MS Song]List members articulated a pressing need to address some prevalent misconceptions about the Middle Ages before a more general audience.[/FONT]

 

[Souder]

回复: an electronic discussion list是啥？怎么翻译比较好？

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_mailing_list 這上面的解釋應該比較正確

One type of electronic mailing list is an announcement list, which is used primarily as a one-way conduit of information and can only be "posted to" by selected people. This may also be referred to by the term newsletter.
Another type of electronic mailing list is a discussion list, in which any subscriber may post. On a discussion list, a subscriber uses the mailing list to send messages to all the other subscribers, who may answer in similar fashion. Thus, actual discussion and information exchanges can happen. Mailing lists of this type are usually topic-oriented (for example, politics, scientific discussion, joke contests), and the topic can range from extremely narrow to "whatever you think could interest us". In this they are similar to Usenet newsgroups, and share the same aversion to off-topic messages. The term discussion group encompasses both these types of lists and newsgroups.
On some discussion lists, every message must be approved by a moderator before being sent to the rest of the subscribers. Moderator approval is usually employed to keep a high average quality of posts and weed out spam.
Some mailing lists are open to anyone who wants to join them, while others require an approval from the list owner before one can join. Joining a mailing list is called "subscribing" and leaving a list is called "unsubscribing".