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

[john at kk9a.com]

Contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/ calls all of them "Mailing
Lists". 

John KK9A

N4ZR 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"

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73, Pete N4ZR
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