Mailring

[Drew Danielson]

'Webring' has been around for quite sometime.  I imagine that it takes
on slightly different meanings depending on context of the internet
service or content.

I remember checking out www.webring.com back in 1998, before it was
absorbed by yahoo.com.  It provided a link-sharing service for related
websites, with varying degrees of restrictiveness or openness of
participation set by the owner of a given ring.

In this service context it differs from listserv, but the difference is
defined largely by the generic differences between email and web pages.


Catherine Aman wrote:
>
> listserv
>
> > ----------
> > From:         M M
> > Reply To:     American Dialect Society
> > Sent:         Thursday, August 8, 2002 4:11 PM
> > To:   ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > Subject:      Mailring
> >
> > Here in Minnesota, "mailring" seems to be fairly
> > common.  What term is used in other parts of the
> > country?
> >
> > Maia
> >
> >

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