"mailbase" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: mailbases [plural]
Etymology: From Mailbase, the name of a specific system for this purpose founded in 1989 and used in UK higher education and research. Head templates: {{en-noun}} mailbase (plural mailbases)
  1. (Internet) Synonym of listserv (“electronic mailing list”). Tags: Internet Categories (topical): E-mail, Internet Synonyms: listserv [synonym, synonym-of] Related terms: database
    Sense id: en-mailbase-en-noun-lF1boXc6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "From Mailbase, the name of a specific system for this purpose founded in 1989 and used in UK higher education and research.",
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          "ref": "1998, Pat Maier, Using Technology in Teaching & Learning, page 119",
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          "ref": "2011, Judith Flanders, The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime, London: HarperPress, pages 467–468",
          "text": "Some of the above are 'virtual collegaues', members of the Victoria 19th-Century British Culture & Society mailbase, and I would once again like to record my thanks both to the listmembers and to Patrick Leary, who as listmaster creates and maintains both the content and the atmosphere of this haven of scholarly collegiality.",
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