Investigation of Medical Mailing Lists in Japan

Abstract

 In September 1999 the Conference on Japanese Medical Mailing List (ML) were held. We conducted an investigation on 33 different mailing lists and gathered 31 responses. The mailing lists ranged in size from 30 members to those of over one hundred. The mailing lists were available at no cost and were usually used for communication between ML members. The smaller ML groups were often long established and used their ML for communication within each group, while the newer large groups, founded as discussion groups focused on a specific field, were Internet based and multi-disciplinary.