mailbase
mailbase noun: synonym of listserv (“electronic mailing list”).
Noun
mailbase (plural mailbases)
- Synonym of listserv (“electronic mailing list”).
- 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
- 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...1999, Tim Crook, Radio Drama: Theory and Practice, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 49
- Synonyms:
- listserv
Synonyms of mailbase
Forms of mailbase
| plural | mailbases |
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Origin of mailbase
From Mailbase, the name of a specific system for this purpose founded in 1989 and used in UK higher education and research.
Questions about mailbase
- What does mailbase mean?
- Mailbase means synonym of listserv (“electronic mailing list”).
- What part of speech is mailbase?
- Mailbase is a noun.
- What is the plural of mailbase?
- The plural of mailbase is mailbases.
Words near mailbase in the dictionary
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