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mailbase en · NOUN

Etymology

From Mailbase, the name of a specific system for this purpose founded in 1989 and used in UK higher education and research.

Meanings

1. (Internet) Synonym of listserv (“electronic mailing list”).
   • The development of mass telephone one-to-one communication seemed to have diminished the social custom of handwritten letters. Yet the Internet with email communications facilities has revived the social habit of written though electronic correspondence. Forums and mailbases lead to instant correspondent broadcasts within specific interest areas. 1999, Tim Crook, Radio Drama: Theory and Practice, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 49:
   • When you join a mailbase, keep all the information you receive from the administrator about leaving the group. You may find in a short while that you are inundated with email of no interest to you, […] 1998, Pat Maier, Using Technology in Teaching & Learning, page 119:
   • Some of the above are 'virtual colleagues', members of the Victoria 19th-Century British Culture & Society mailbase, and I would once again like to record my thanks both to the listmembers and to Patrick Leary, who as listmaster creates and maintains both the content and the atmosphere of this haven of scholarly collegiality. 2011, Judith Flanders, The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime, London: HarperPress, →ISBN, pages 467–468:

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database

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listserv