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

[John Geiger]

How dare you ask a question like that on the contesting reflector!  It has
nothing to do with FT8 :)

73 John W5TD (ex AF5CC)

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 10:09 PM rjairam at gmail.com <rjairam at gmail.com>
wrote:

> "Reflector" is a term I've heard only in ham circles. I suppose that
> it has to do with likeness to an antenna reflector.
>
> Ria
> n2RJ
>
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 at 22:15, 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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