On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 3:09 PM Gerardo @neorigami.com
wrote:
> I have had this confusion for years, but only now I dare to ask. I was a
> bit embarrassed for not knowing.
>
> What is the O-list and Origami-L? I think they are mailing lists. Am I
> right? Is this very list one or the other? Is one of them an older and now
> closed mailing list? Are they two different names of the same mailing list?
> If so, what caused the creation of two names or a single list?
>
They're just nicknames for this mailing list; they evolved over time, as
the list moved between hosting services and the like.
Not entirely sure where "o-list" came from (though it's certainly the kind
of thing I'd come up with, maybe I'm to blame?); but "Origami-L" is from
the far distant past when the list was run on the MIT mainframe with
software called LISTSERV, and it was customary to label lists with
{something}-L.
Hope that's useful! You should have asked sooner! :)
Anne