* On 2025 26 Feb 10:03 -0600, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 09:59:01AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I'm communicating with a state level peer-to-peer support group. > > The national organization has a peer-to-peer "mailing list" built around > > webmail as a complement/alternative to their sponsored social media groups. > > I find the web based system unusable. > > > > I'm so old I used an acoustic coupler when connecting to an RBBS. > > How do I clearly ask the state rep if there is a traditional mailing list > > similar to debian-user. > > > The term which people generally associated with this sort of > communication channel would probably be something like "email listserv" > (or possibly just "listserv"). I think it was based on a commercial > email list management software (similar to GNU Mailman).
Way back when dinosaurs trod the internets, 'majordomo' was a common email list daemon. I can't recall the last time I dealt with one of those. Richard, if your target is an amateur radio operator, then the preferred terminology is 'email reflector'. I've not seen that term used for a mailing list by any other subset of Internet users. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819
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