--- Ellis Godard <egodard@csun.edu> wrote:
I may have asked this before (I know I've at least raised the issue elsewhere, perhaps not here), but anyone how or when mailing lists became "listserves"? The etymological origin is probably ListServ (with MajorDomo, one of the leading mailing list software programs) and "list server", that beast which manages mailing lists. Was the adoption vague and gradual, or is there someone to whom blame (credit?) can be pinned?
see: http://www.lsoft.com/corporate/ericthomas.asp http://www.lsoft.com/products/listserv-history.asp http://www.livinginternet.com/l/lli.htm http://www.ibiblio.org/usenet-i/groups-html/bit.listserv.history.html One Eric Thomas of CERN is said to have devised the real Listserv in 1986, originally called Revised Listserv. Dominic Pinto http://www.ecademy.com/user/dominicpinto http://www.linkedin.com/in/dominicpinto Live or work in, or visit Covent Garden and Westminster? Check out http://www.westmin.co.uk/index.php e-m: dominic.pinto@ieee.org Skype: zorrodp M: +44 780 302-8268 Ph: +44 207 379-8341 In the U.S. M/Cell: +1 215 667-3001