Robins and online e-mail lists

Before the internet letters were circukated to small interest groups. These were called robins. E-mail has replaced these. but the old handwritten robins oftyen were interesting since the showed the ideas of participating hybridizers.

Reference to the robins in 1977 can be found here: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/252069#page/54/mode/1up