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Lonely, Curious, or just want to talk to folks that share your interests? An email-list may be just what you have been looking for!Email-lists are similar to Newsgroups but easier to use. An email-list is simply a group of people who share an interest…
This page is intended as a one-stop information resource about email discussion groups or "lists," as they are sometimes called.
Since the 1970s, people have been joining "mailing lists" to talk about their favorite topics via e-mail!
Our mission at List-Resources.com is to provide a resource center containing all of the information that you, as an email list owner, manager, or publisher, will ever need.
Appropriate only for scholarly/professional discussion groups.
Welcome to CataList, the catalog of LISTSERV lists! From this page, you can browse any of the 32,575 public LISTSERV lists on the Internet, search for mailing lists of interest, and get information about LISTSERV host sites.
THE INTERNET contains literally thousands of special interest discussion groups, each individually managed by an Internet server known as a list server (commonly referred to as a Listserv, list processor or a list). Lists are often moderated by a list owner, but this is not always the case; some lists are simply a free-for-all discussion without a person filtering the messages. Most lists can be provided to the user either in a digest form or on a post-by-post basis - directions for choosing this setting will usually appear in the welcome message you receive once you've joined the list. Any member of a list may take part in a conversation or begin a new topic. Listservers can also distribute electronic journals (e-journals) and newsletters, which are simply online magazines that are edited and distributed as a list. In general, most lists and e-journals can be joined by posting an email to the listserver address and writing the following in the first line of the actual posting:
The Internet provides thousands of discussion groups via e-mail by allowing users to place themselves on electronic mailing lists. See the help files for directions.
Electronic mailing lists provide forums for Internet users to participate in discussions or receive information on thousands of topics. The software responsible for the management and distribution of these mailing lists to thousands of subscribers are commonly called "list servers". A list server automatically distributes an e-mail message from one member of a list to all other members on that list.
