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Subject:Re: Query: What do we call the list? From:Karen Kay <karenk -at- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 30 Mar 1995 09:53:02 -0800
SuePStewrt -at- AOL -dot- COM said:
> I believe this is an Internet mailing list. That's what they seem to be
> called in all the books on the 'net.
Well...that may be what they are called, but LISTSERV is essentially a
BITNET program. All listserv lists run off BITNET nodes. Majordomo and
listproc lists run from an Internet mode and can distribute mail
directly without having to funnel it through a BITNET node first. (I
only know about this because a large BITNET node closed recently,
which means the others, particularly UGA, which runs 50% of all BITNET
mail, are severely over-burdened.)
I call them mailing lists, as opposed to Usenet newsgroups. I think
the tendency to call them Internet mailing lists is because they are
not local, but Internet-wide.
