Currently, these resources are based on the Internet, the global connection of computers at University's and businesses. This is document is designed to give you a brief overview of where we are and where we might be going. Back to the AEE On-line Page. It allows groups of computer users with a common interest to communicate among themselves, while making efficient use of computer and network resources. It makes it easy for even novice users to discover, join, and participate in these interest group mailing lists.
Any message sent to the hub is forwarded to all subscribers.
This allows people to post questions and receive answers and post information. Lists may be set up to focus on particular interest areas. In order to start a list one must have a site on the Internet that runs list management software and someone at that site to be the list administrator. This person handles basic list maintenance such as new subscribers, responding to error messages, etc. All of the commercial services, American Online, Compuserve, etc. allow email exchange with the Internet.