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Electronic discussion groups

Here are entered works on services, commonly called newsgroups and LISTSERV lists, that allow a computer user to post messages to, and read messages from, a group of people who have a common interest, usually by means of the Internet, a commercial online service, or electronic mail. Works on services that allow a computer user to post messages to, and read messages from, a group of people who have a common interest, via a dedicated telephone line established for the purpose, are entered under Computer bulletin boards. Works on services that allow a person, using a computer, to engage in an actual \"conversation\" with other people in real time are entered under Online chat groups.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Forums (Discussion and debate)

• Online chat groups

• Electronic discussion groups -- Social aspects

• Discussion groups, Electronic
• Discussion lists, Electronic
• Electronic discussion lists
• Electronic forums
• Electronic news groups
• Electronic newsgroups
• E-lists (Electronic discussion groups)
• E-mail discussion groups
• Internet discussion groups
• Internet forums
• Internet news groups
• Internet newsgroups
• Lists, Electronic discussion
• LISTSERV lists (Electronic discussion groups)
• News groups, Electronic
• Newsgroups, Electronic
• Online discussion groups
• Online forums
• Online news groups
• Online newsgroups
• Usenet news groups
• Usenet newsgroups
• Discussion group

• Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2015), by Joseph Michael Reagle (illustrated HTML with commentary at MIT Press)
• From Workplace to Workspace: Using Email Lists to Work Together (1998), by Maureen James and Liz Rykert (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)
• Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum (c1998), ed. by Donna Reiss, Dickie Selfe, and Art Young (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)

• Net.wars, by Wendy Grossman (HTML at NYU)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2015), by Joseph Michael Reagle (illustrated HTML with commentary at MIT Press)

• Guide for Discussion Leaders (1944), by Donald W. Goodrich
  • illustrated HTML at historians.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• By Popular Demand: Revitalizing Representative Democracy Through Deliberative Elections (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000), by John Gastil (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2010), by Joseph Michael Reagle, contrib. by Lawrence Lessig (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Wikipedia: The Missing Manual (online Wikipedian-edited edition; originally published 2008), by John Broughton (at en.wikipedia.org)