So fundamentally, we're using an older term, no longer quite
appropriate, to describe amateur radio mailing lists. Frankly, I like
that - given the low state of much internet "chat" these days, I'd like
to see our reflectors remain distinct.
73, Pete N4ZR
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On 6/11/2019 9:36 AM, Michael Adams wrote:
I remember "reflector" from my BBS days in the early/mid 1980's.
I also remember that when I got to the internet in 1990, there was a technical distinction between
"reflector" and ("mailing list"/"LISTSERV"). Reflectors were "dumb" ways to
direct email to a manually maintained list of addressees; anything sent to the reflector list, including error
messages, would go to everyone on the list.
Mailing lists were smarter things, where a program would be used to maintain
the distribution list; eventually people could add or remove themselves by
sending a message to administrative addresses associated with specific lists;
and the program would attempt to filter out error messages (or offer an
administrator the power to moderate the list) to avoid unwanted traffic (a
concern at 300/1200/2400 bps dial-up speeds). LISTSERV was probably the first
(or at least the first to be widely used) mailing list software, followed later
by Majordomo and Mailman.
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