21 Apr
2017
21 Apr
'17
10:54 a.m.
From: Bill Gunshannon
Surely there were Mailing Lists prior to the existence
of the Internet,
yes?
Absolutely. They started on the ARPANet, fairly early on.
E.g. SF-Lovers (one of the first 'non-mission related' mailing lists) started
in September, 1979, and MsgGroup (an 'official-busines-related' one)
considerably earlier, in June 1975. Header-People started at about the same
time, but alas, we have lost the first two volumes of the archives, so I don't
know exactly when.
I maintain archives of these lists on my page:
http://mercury.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/archives.html
if anyone wants a look. The variety of header formats is kind of amusing.
Do any Lists that started on UUCP still exist today?
Perhaps. Do you count newgroups? (Of course, UUCP considerably post-date
the ARPANet.)
Noel