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listserv  

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  • LISTSERV is a commercial mailing-list manager that allows anyone on the Internet to set up an email discussion forum to which similarly interested people can subscribe. The software, initially distributed for free, is perhaps the most important remnant of the old BITNET (“Because It's There Network”), an early online network that was prevalent in the early 1980s, before the advent of today's Internet. [Source: Encyclopedia of New Media; LISTSERV]

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