The Online World resources handbook

Web/Internet tools and pointers http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/v6.html
A possibly moderated discussion group on the Internet, distributed via email from a
central computer maintaining the list of people involved in the discussion.
Anyone can send a message to a single mailing list address. The message is
"reflected" to everyone on the list of addresses. The members of that list can respond,
and the responses are reflected, forming a discussion group.
Think of mailing lists as magazines you subscribe and unsubscribe as your needs
and interests change.
Majordomo
is another program that organizes mailing lists. Commands for subscribing and
unsubscribing are similar to those used with a LISTSERV except that the name is not
given at the end of the subscription line. Further, rather than sending e mail to
LISTSERV at the site that houses the list, send to majordomo@csn.org.
For a list of mailing lists served by this Majordomo server, send the command 'lists'
in the body of your email message. Add the command 'help' on the next line for a short
help file.
MIME
The Multi purpose Internet Mail Extensions is a specification that offers a way to
interchange text in languages with different character sets, and multi media email among
PDQ\ GLIIHUHQW FRPSXWHU V\VWHPV WKDW XVH ,QWHUQHW PDLO VWDQGDUGV
MIME lets you create and read email messages containing these things:
character sets other than ASCII
enriched text (text with markup commands like to make it more readable)
images
sounds
other messages (reliably encapsulated)
tar files
PostScript
FTPable file pointers
other stuff
MIME supports several pre defined types of non textual message contents, such as 8 bit
8000Hz sampled mu LAW audio, GIF image files, and PostScript programs. It also
permits you to define your own types of message parts.
For details, check ftp://ftp.eunet.be/pub/documents/faq/mail/mime faq/,
http://info.internet.isi.edu/in notes/rfc/files/rfc1341.txt, and the comp.mail.mime
newsgroup.
Note: A MIME message received by someone on a host without MIME installed,
may be encoded in a binary format (BASE64) and be impossible to read. If you have
this problem, try the small free utility that is available through the TOW archive. Send
GET TOW.MASTER (as explained in the preface of the book) for retrieval instructions
and file name.
Mirror
Term used about one or several hosts on the Internet that maintain a complete copy
("mirror") of selected contents from another host on the net.
See: Usenet.
Netnews
Newsgroup
Term used for online conferences on Usenet. See Appendix 1 for more.
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