[CQ-Contest] Where did "Reflector" come from?

[Zack Widup]

The original idea was that you sent a message to it and it "reflected" the
message to all the other members. That term has been around as long as the
internet!

73, Zack W9SZ

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 9:15 PM N4ZR <n4zr at comcast.net> wrote:

> I first became a member of the Towertalk reflector at least 25 years
> ago, when there was no CQ-Contest and we felt the need to mention
> "tower" or "antenna" somewhere in our contesting-related messages to
> avoid (we thought) the moderator's wrath.
>
> Looking back, do any of you greybeards out there remember where the name
> "reflector" came from? I much prefer it to "list" or "listserv"
>
> --
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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