How do Mailing Lists, Newsgroups and the Web differ?
What were termed above the “soc.genealogy.britain/GENBRIT-L and soc.genealogy.ireland/GENIRL-L newsgroups/mailing lists” will be seen by some users (who may well not know what a newsgroup is) as mailing lists, and seen as newsgroups by other users (who may well assume that everyone sees them that way) – yet in fact both types of user will see the same set of messages. (Note: there are a number of other genealogy mailing lists related to regions within the UK & Ireland – see Question 7 below – that are not so linked to corresponding newsgroups.) For new Internet users, it is therefore perhaps appropriate to start with a brief explanation of the differences between a mailing list and a newsgroup, and how these relate to the World Wide Web. (You may be reading this particular page via any of these three schemes!) These three schemes of distributing information over the Internet were developed separately, and their use originally always involved different software packages, namely an “emai
What were termed above the “soc.genealogy.britain/GENBRIT-L and soc.genealogy.ireland/GENIRL-L newsgroups/mailing lists” will be seen by some users (who may well not know what a newsgroup is) as mailing lists, and seen as newsgroups by other users (who may well assume that everyone sees them that way) – yet in fact both types of user will see the same set of messages. (Note: there are a number of other genealogy mailing lists related to regions within the UK & Ireland – see Question 7 below – that are not so linked to corresponding newsgroups.) For new Internet users, it is therefore perhaps appropriate to start with a brief explanation of the differences between a mailing list and a newsgroup, and how these relate to the World Wide Web. (You may be reading this particular page via any of these three schemes!) These three schemes of distributing information over the Internet were developed separately, and their use originally always involved different software packages, namely an “emai
