There was (is?) a whole mail-relay postal service culture. In the mid-90s my grandmother was a node in semi-formalized mailing list system that more than anythi

There was (is?) a whole mail-relay postal service culture. In the mid-90s my grandmother was a node in semi-formalized mailing list system that more than anything resembled a mimeograph version of Reddit. you'd get packets of stuff (jokes, photos, recipes, poems, stories, coupons, what-have-you) from people and sort of mix and match them and send them on to other people in your mailing list who'd like them, copying the good stuff and pruning the uninteresting. I remember seeing literally the same fw: fw: fw: jokes that were circulating on BBSes at the time being circulated on hand-typed pages.