Date: Fri, 15 Dec 89 22:45:04 EST
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <ai.ai.mit.edu!KFL>
Subject: tanru for "electronic mailing list"
To: mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!"eric@snark.uu.net"
Cc: ai.ai.mit.edu!KFL, uunet!snark!lojban-list
Message-Id: <680075.891215.KFL@AI.AI.MIT.EDU>
Status: RO

> A `computer type of journal' seems to me to imply third-party
> editorship and refereeing, as is done in some tightly moderated
> newsgroups but not in most mailing lists (and certainly not in
> this one).

I'm open to suggestions.  Note that even in English, nobody can decide
quite what to call them.  Mailing list, list, group, echo, forum,
newsgroup, digest, skywriting, net, discussion, board, grammo,
journal, and thread, are a few of the terms I've heard used.  They
don't always quite overlap in meaning, however.  And it depends on
where you are.  To an Internet person, a mailing list and a newsgroup
are pretty much the same thing, while they are very different entities
to a user of usenet.

Would this tanru encompass all of these?  If not, which distinctions
should be made?  News vs. mail?  Moderated vs. unmoderated?
Digestified vs. undigestified?  Store-and-forward vs. immediate?
Usenet vs. Fidonet vs. Internet vs. Bitnet vs. CSnet vs. MFEnet vs.
SPAN vs. Compuserve vs. ATTmail vs. all-of-these?

On a seperate subject, how does one say "right" in Lojban?  I don't
mean the direction, but as in "We hold these truths to be self-
evident...".  Thanks.
								...Keith