A richly detailed article with dozens of stories, examples and links describing the proliferation of mailing lists in India. The author does much more than to merely survey the field, offering an analysis of why an email culture has flourished despite the relatively wide bandwidth available in India as compared to other south Asian nations. One reason is that many agencies do not have effective communication strategies. Another is the high cost of print publications. The article also looks at the effect of mailing lists on Indian society: and while internet technology has not solved the problem of poverty in that nations (and, indeed, even made it worse in same instances), mailing list exchanges provide affordable information and resources for teachers, social workers and development officers.
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