Following on from my ‘Isn’t Social Media just what we’ve always done?‘ musings yesterday, I ended up chatting to an online friend about the forerunner of the Online Networking Forum, the Mailing List.
Mailing lists were a simple way to interact with people in a certain group – everyone signed up to the list, and when you posted a message, it went out to everyone else on the list. Sometimes there was a moderator who made sure the list wasn’t spammed to death, and you could usually opt to receive a digest of posts, or each post as it came in. It sounds a lot more complicated than it was!
