TIE Corps Mailing List

From its first recorded message in August 2009, the TIE Corps mailing list on Google Groups allowed any TC pilot to email all the others with a single email address. As you might expect, that led to spam concerns on multiple occasions which led to some pilots referring to the mailing list as the TIE Corps Mail Bomb (TCMB).

Over time, the TC adopted new communications platforms that curbed the amount of email being sent through the mailing list. The first would be Telegram, which the TC used from September 2015 to mid-2020. In 2020, the TC had been operating a Discord server on the side and the decision was made to fully transfer all TC chat from Telegram to Discord.

Since the switch to Discord, the mailing list saw less and less use as pilots didn't need to rely on email to reach their squadmates. Discord had given us a way to assign pilots to channels in a way that Telegram hadn't, plus the usage rate of Discord was higher than it was for Telegram.

In 2024, the mailing list was only being used to relay officer reports and even then not all units were using the Corps-wide mailing list because they didn't feel a need to email their report to everyone in the TC. That May, TCCOM/HA Plif flipped the switch that stopped any new messages sent to the mailing list from being distributed following IO/HA Turtle Jerrar's implementation of a system that would create a notification in Discord whenever any new officer report was created on the site.

New members aren't being added to the mailing list anymore since new messages aren't being sent to it, so it's just serving as an archive as it has a copy of every email that was sent Corps-wide from 2009 to 2024 and there's a lot of history there.