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David S. Bennahum: The Hot New Medium Is ... Email (Wired  6.04 - Apr 1998) 
The proud owner of the mailinglist Meme retells the story of the medium from its inception in the mid-1960s time-sharing system CTSS to a general taxonomy of lists.   
  

From Ronda & Michael Hauben's "Netizen's Netbook" 
The Evolution of Usenet: The Poor Man's ARPANET (Ch. 2) 
The Social Forces Behind the Development of Usenet (Ch. 3) 
The World of Usenet (Ch. 4) 
Cybernetics, Time-sharing, Human-Computer Symbiosis and On-line Communities: Creating a Supercommunity of On-lline Communities (on CTSS and Project MAC. Ch. 6) 
  

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Majordomo 
noun: a person who speaks, makes arrangements, or takes charge for another.  From Italian maggiordomo or Spanish mayordomo, both from Medieval Latin "major domus" - "chief of the house". (Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology)  

Majordomo is a community-supported Open Source "groupware" project. It has evolved from the initial code base done by Brent Chapman <brent@greatcircle.com>, with further maintenance done by John Rouillard <rouilj@cs.umb.edu>. The current Majordomo maintainer is Chan Wilson <cwilson@sgi.com>. 

D. Brent Chapman: Majordomo: How I Manage 17 Mailing Lists Without Answering "-request" Mail (compressed PostScript file) 
The story of Majordomo, currently the most popular & Open Source listserver on the Internet, as told by its author, who in 1992 had to postmaster 17 mailinglists for SAGE (the System Administrators Guild, a USENIX Special Technical Group).  

The chapter about Majordomo from the Nutshell Handbook "Managing Internet Information Services," written by Jerry Peek. (c) Copyright 1994 by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. 

The Majordomo-FAQ.