Megabyte University (MBU) was a discussion list (founded in 1990, deactivated in 1997) composed of professors, teachers, grad students, and administrators in Rhetoric and Composition, and more generally in English or language studies. They represented several different levels of institutions: secondary and community college as well as university graduate students and faculty. MBU physically ran at Texas Tech University, in Lubbock, Texas, and was administered by Fred Kemp. After it was deactivated, its traffic moved to its sister list, the ACW-L (the Alliance for Computers and Writing). Consequently, this FAQ refers to MBU and ACW as if they were the same list, but refers only to ACW when discussing technical issues, such as how to join ACW.
![]()
Please send any amendments, requests, questions, and gripes to:
locke.carter@ttu.edu