Introduction: A Brief History of Quotemail

Dear Readers:

This blog is an archive of the emailing list that I have been running since November 1995, which is now known as the JSMT Quotemail. The list was born during my graduate school days in the German Department at the University of Illinois. Its original name was REEL – Rob’s Eclectic Edutainment List. It was primarily aimed at friends and colleagues in the German Department, but it began to expand slowly but surely as my workplaces changed over the years. When I moved to the Graduate College Information Office in May 1997, this list became the “Quote of the Week,” and when I moved to the ACES James Scholar Honors Program in April 2000, it was simply called “Quotemail.” The “JSMT” was added to the list’s name in 2006, after the founding of the James Scholar Media Team (JSMT) by myself and a dozen enthusiastic ACES James Scholars. Today, this list can boast over 100 members who receive snippets of poetry and prose, mixed in with some inspiration and humor, every other Friday.

Please note that the opinions and views expressed in the Quotemails on this blog are my own and are not necessarily those of the James Scholar Media Team, the ACES James Scholar Honors Program, the College of ACES, and/or the University of Illinois.

Thank you for visiting my blog. I look forward to sharing quotations with you starting this Friday, January 17!

Rob