Gary wrote: > Listserves: Email lists are read in an email program or on the web and are > handled by SMTP. > Newsgroups: Hosted on news servers, they are read by newsgroup software or on > the web, and are handled by NNTP. > > So this is a listserve. Forgive me, I'm a Virgo. > > Listserve, weird word. Nobody likes it. "Email list" will also do.
Fear me, I'm a Cancer on the Leo cusp. Listserv is a registered trademark of L-Soft for their mailing list software, which was originally written by Eric Thomas circa 1986. There is no such thing as a "listserve", excepting some bastardizations and misspellings. "Email list" is OK, I suppose, but my geeky friends and I have been calling them "mailing lists" or just "lists" as far back as I can recall (Internet enabled since 1984! Go me!). And I do believe there is an NNTP interface for this list floating around somewhere. :Fuzz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
