Scholarly Editing in the Twenty-First Century

led by Cathereine Byron

& Gavin Stewart

DMU - 15th March 2006

E-mail, Listgroups & Other Resources

Since the early days of the Internet (prior to the www) it has been used to pass news between research groups. As the numbers of users on the Internet rose a number of protocol technologies arose to aid these exchanges. The most successful were Usenet and listserv. As the Usenet FAQ’s note:

“Usenet is the set of people who exchange articles tagged with one or more universally-recognized labels, called "newsgroups" (or "groups" for short)” (Usenet FAQ)

The tagging effectively brings together large bodies of information, authored by a number of writers on a related theme. Listserv is a technological system that allows you to create, manage and control electronic "mailing lists" on a corporate network or on the Internet. These technologies are very actively used by a number of disparate groups discussing a mutual interest such as pets or open-source programming.

As well as these formal news protocols, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), chat rooms, Multi-user Dungeons (MUDs), electronic forums and bulletin boards were also used to exchange research news (though it is often characterised in the literature as gossip or sexual innuendo).

E-mail and Listgroups etc.

Joint Information Systems Commitee

Setting up a list group with JISCmail

The Bakhtin Centre

Bakhtin News Archives

trAce Forum

Other Resources

The Agrippa Files

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