Re: Other lists
- Subject: Re: Other lists
- From: t*@Lanl.GOV (Tom Tadfor Little)
- Date: Tue, 5 Mar 96 10:51:24 MST
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:>
:>I think a discussion group that uses a listserver should be called a
:>mailing list.
:
:But Tom... it isn't. <snip> There was MUCH conversation
:at one point about what to call this animal... and since we were comfortable
:with the exchange of information as though it were a turbo-charged robin, we
:continued to call it the Daylily E-Mail Robin.
I'll still stick by my statement, which is a "should" statement, not
an "is" statement. I suppose if a local newspaper decided to buy and
run a TV station, they _could_ call the station a newspaper for old
times' sake. But it would be clearer to the world at large if they
called it what it is: a TV station.
The reason I care at all is that newcomers to the internet are already
bewildered by all the terminology and different services available.
Learning the lingo is difficult enough without "people in the know"
ignoring it and coming up with their own.
There are tens of thousands of mailing lists on the internet, and
as of today I know of only one (ahem) that is not referred to as a
mailing list.
:)
Offered in good spirit,
Tom.
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