From: Alex Strasheim <cp@proust.suba.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 08:39:38 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Remailer Operator Liability?
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> (anyone know who came up with the term "email exploder" that the Court 
> used instead of "mailing list"?)

The only time I've ever heard the term was in conjunction with the email 
sent out by the Clinton campaign during the last election.  

I probably misunderstood what was going on, but at the time I assumed that
it was a little different than a mail list.  My impression was that it
was for broadcasting rather than disucssing (ie., only the campaign could
use it), and that it was hierarchical in nature (mail goes to a dozen or a
hundred "exploders" who then send it out to a couple of hundred thousand
individuals).