Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists

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4.30. Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists

Stephanie da Silva maintains the list of "Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists." The list includes the list names, contact information, and short descriptions of the purpose of the lists. It is available via

Usenet. updated monthly on news.lists and news.answers

anonymous FTP. rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/news.answers/mail/mailing-lists

e-mail. mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with send usenet/news.answers/mail/mailing-lists/* in the body

World Wide Web. http://www.ii.uib.no/~magnus/paml.html

Glass Arts
    Contact: glass-request@dixie.com

    Purpose: For stained/hot glass artists.

glbpoc
    Contact: glbpoc-request@ferkel.ucsb.edu

    Purpose: glbpoc is a mailing list for lesbian, gay, and bisexual
    people of color.  To be added to the list you must provide your full
    name and a complete internet address.

glove-list
    Contact:  (machine) listserv@boxer.nas.nasa.gov
              (human)   jet@nas.nasa.gov (J. Eric Townsend)

    Purpose: Discussion of the Nintendo PowerGlove, a < $100 dataglove
    available on the remaindered racks of Toys 'R Us and other big
    toy stores.
    To subscribe, send email to listserv@boxer.nas.nasa.gov with a
    *body* of "subscribe glove-list  your_full_name".

gnu-manual
    Contact: internet: gnu-manual-request@a.cs.uiuc.edu

    Purpose: "gnu-manual" members are volunteers who write, proofread,
    and comment on documents for a GNU Emacs Lisp programmers'
manual.

The Dartmouth SIGLIST

David Avery from Dartmouth maintains an edited list of mailing lists on both Bitnet and Internet. The list includes short descriptions of the purpose of the lists and is sorted by category (such as computing, science, humanities, and so on).

SIGLIST is available via

anonymous FTP. dartcms1.dartmouth.edu:/SIGLISTS/*

e-mail. listserv@dartcms1.bitnet with INDEX SIGLISTS in the body

AFA-HEAL@WSUVM1.BITNET  LISTSERV@WSUVM1.BITNET  AFA-HEAL Health
Finance
AFA-INT@WSUVM1.BITNET   LISTSERV@WSUVM1.BITNET  AFA-INT International
Finance
AFA-INV@WSUVM1.BITNET   LISTSERV@WSUVM1.BITNET  AFA-INV Investments
AFA-LE@WSUVM1.BITNET    LISTSERV@WSUVM1.BITNET  AFA-LE Law &
Economics
AFA-MATH@WSUVM1.BITNET  LISTSERV@WSUVM1.BITNET  AFA-MATH Mathematical
Finance
AFA-PUB@WSUVM1.BITNET   LISTSERV@WSUVM1.BITNET  AFA-PUB Public Finance
AFA-REAL@WSUVM1.BITNET  LISTSERV@WSUVM1.BITNET  AFA-REAL Real Estate
AFA-S-IV@WSUVM1.BITNET  LISTSERV@WSUVM1.BITNET  AFA-S-IV Small Investors
AFA-SBUS@WSUVM1.BITNET  LISTSERV@WSUVM1.BITNET  AFA-SBUS Small Business
Finance
AFAM-L@UMCVMB.BITNET    LISTSERV@UMCVMB.BITNET  African-American Research
AFRICA-L@BRUFMG.BITNET  LISTSERV@BRUFMG.BITNET  FORUM PAN-AFRICA
AIAA@ARIZVM1.BITNET     LISTSERV@ARIZVM1.BITNET AIAA Listserv
AIL-L@austin.onu.edu    listserv@austin.onu.edu Artificial Intelligence and
Law
ALIENS-L@UTKVM1.BITNET  LISTSERV@UTKVM1.BITNET
Taxation/Witholding/Reporting Re
quirements f
all-of-elsa@jus.uio.no  akj@jus.uio.no  European Law Students
Assocication
ALLMUSIC@AUVM.BITNET    LISTSERV@AUVM.BITNET    Discussions on all forms of
Musi
c
ALSBNEWS@MIAMIU.BITNET  LISTSERV@MIAMIU.BITNET  Academy of Legal Studies in
Busi
ness (ALSB)
ALSBTALK@MIAMIU.BITNET  LISTSERV@MIAMIU.BITNET  Academy of Legal Studies in
Busi
ness (ALSB)
AltInst@cs.cmu.edu      AltInst-request@cs.cmu.edu      Alternate
Institutions
ALTLEARN@SJUVM.BITNET   LISTSERV@SJUVM.BITNET   Alternative Approaches to
Learni
ng Discussion
AMERCATH@UKCC.BITNET    LISTSERV@UKCC.BITNET    History of American
Catholicism
America@xamiga.linet.org        subscribe@xamiga.linet.org      American
Governm
ent
AMFCH-L@UCHCECVM.BITNET LISTSERV@UCHCECVM.BITNET        Noticias Acerca de
la Co
operacion Franco-Chile
AMIGA-TR@TREARN.BITNET  LISTSERV@TREARN.BITNET  Turk Amigacilar
listesi...
AMINT-L@PSUVM.BITNET    LISTSERV@PSUVM.BITNET   Academy of Management
Internatio
nal
AMLIT-L@UMCVMB.BITNET   LISTSERV@UMCVMB.BITNET  American Literature
Discussion L
ist
AMWEST-H@USCVM.BITNET   LISTSERV@USCVM.BITNET   American West History
Forum
ANCIEN-L@ULKYVM.BITNET  LISTSERV@ULKYVM.BITNET  History of the Ancient
Mediterra
nean

The NEW-LIST New Mailing List List

The NEW-LIST mailing list provides announcements of new mailing lists. To subscribe via

e-mail. LISTSERV@NDSUVM1.BITNET with SUB NEW-LIST Yourfirstname Yourlastname in the body

Usenet. bit.listserv.new-list

You can also search a database of information in "interest-groups," "list of lists," and the "new-list" interest group. Letting a computer search for mailing lists that interest you certainly beats perusing megabyte-long lists yourself. For information on accessing the database, send e-mail to LISTSERV@NDSUVM1.BITNET with INFO DATABASE in the body.

Here's an example of a list announced on the Usenet's bit.listserv.new-list:

ABooks-L on ListProc@scu.edu.au

   ANet is a networked electronic forum in the broad accounting and
   auditing discipline.  It has been established by Southern Cross
   University in conjunction with the School of Business at Bond
   University.

   ANet announces ABooks-L.  A mailing list which allows authors and
   publishers to advertise the arrival of new books in the broad
   accounting and auditing discipline.  Be warned - unashamed
   advertising allowed.

   To subscribe to the ABooks-L mailing list, send a message to the
   mailing list management software:
      ListProc@scu.edu.au
   with the following text in the body of the e-mail:

      subscribe ABooks-L firstname surname

   Archives of this ANet mailing list are held and can be accessed by
   sending a message to:
      ListProc@scu.edu.au
   with the following text in the body of the e-mail:

      index ABooks-L

   The archives are also available from the ANet Gopher (see signature
   below) or by anonymous FTP from "anet.scu.edu.au".

   Roger Debreceny, ANet,            |E-mail: ANetAdm@ANet.scu.edu.au
   The Intl. Accounting Network      |Fax:    +61 66 22 1724
   Faculty of Business and Computing |Phone:  +61 66 20 3837
   Southern Cross University         |ANet is a co-operative venture
   PO Box 157                        |between Southern Cross Uni
   Lismore, NSW, 2480, Australia     |& Bond University.
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   |For background on ANet, email "ANet@scu.edu.au". No text needed. |
   |ANet Gopher URL -> gopher://ANet.scu.edu.au/11/anet/             |
   |ANet Home Page  -> http://ANet.scu.edu.au/ANetHomePage.html      |
   |Can you help by becoming an Associate of ANet? Contact ANetAdm   |

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For More Information

If you want to know still more ways to find mailing lists of interest, read the FAQ "How to find an interesting mailing list," edited by Arno Wouters (Arno.Wouters@phil.ruu.nl). Available are:

e-mail. listserv@vm1.nodak.edu with GET NEW-LIST WOUTERS in the body
anonymous FTP. vm1.nodak.edu:/new-list/new-list.wouters

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