Greetings!

[Alice Faber]

Dave Wilton said:
>  > "Mailring"--a new term to me!  Has anyone else heard it?
>
>It's new to me too, but Google turns up some 5000 websites that use the
>term. Usenet has posts talking about "mailrings" going back to 1997.
>
>I am familiar with the term "web ring," a series of websites about a subject
>that are all interlinked via html code. Fan sites are often organized into
>web rings. By clicking on the web ring link, you are hyperlinked to the next
>website in the "ring."

This sounds more like an email version of the family circular letters
(predecessor of the holiday letter?). Mom writes a newsy letter to
daughter #1, who adds a newsy letter and forwards it and Mom's letter
to her sister (daughter #2), and so forth. I'm not sure the term
makes sense for a mailing list, since the information is transmitted
in parallel rather than serially.

Alice



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