On the WWW one can find Web Pages, hypertext documents, that most often contain links to other pages through hypertext links. Web pages can contain almost anything that you would expect to find in any printed document including text, tables and graphics, but they also may offer video and audio components and virtual reality. The easiest way to access a site on the WWW is to use a Webbrowser such as Netscape or Microsoft Internet Explorer. A browser is the software used to navigate through the World Wide Web and enables users to view the many kinds of information on the WWW, such as HTML documents, FTP directories, gopher pages, images, audio, and video. An E-Mail discussion list consists of users discussing list specific subjects via electronic mail.
Any message sent to the list automatically goes to all subscribers to the list.
This type of communication allows people with similar interests to meet electronically and exchange ideas. A discussion list may be open to anyone or a closed forum for registered users. A discussion list may also be moderated or unmoderated. In moderated discussion lists a designated person screens all incoming messages before sending them to the list, in order to restrict queries and comments to the list specific topic. In an unmoderated list all messages are automatically sent to all list subscribers.