PMW1@psuvm.psu.edu (Peter M. Weiss) (04/17/91)
Archive-name: mail/guides/list-of-lists/1991-04-12 Archive: ftp.nisc.sri.com:/netinfo/interest-groups [192.33.33.53] Original-posting-by: PMW1@psuvm.psu.edu (Peter M. Weiss) Original-subject: Searching for Lists (was NO SUBJECT) Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) In article 19910411.153447.FCCWLA01@MSUKYVM, FCCWLA01@MSUKYVM.BITNET says: > >From: Bill Allbritten >Is there a database accessible with ldbase that allows one to search the >global list of bitnet lists? Such as SELECT EDUCATION IN <whatever database> >which would produce a list of lists containing the word education in their one >line description? Thanks, Bill Some Lists of Lists Compiled by Marty Hoag (nu021172@vm1.nodak.edu) Updated 10/19/90 There are several different lists of lists available: The "Interest Groups List of Lists" available from ftp.nisc.sri.com (also known as Interest-Groups or SIGLIST or Interest lists) The LISTSERV global list database (on BITNET/EARN/et al) The Usenet News news.lists "Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists" Other sources like NEW-LIST@VM1.NoDak.EDU (NEW-LIST@NDSUVM1.Bitnet) and NETMONTH (from BITLIB@YALEVM) publish announcements of new lists. To subscribe to NEW-LIST send mail to LISTSERV@vm1.nodak.edu (or LISTSERV@NDSUVM1.BITNET) with the body of the mail containing the command: SUB NEW-LIST yourfirstname yourlastname To subscribe to NETMONTH send mail to LISTSERV@MARIST.BITNET with the body of the mail containing the command: SUB NETMONTH yourfirstname yourlastname SRI NIC Maintained Interest-Groups List of Lists If you have access to the Internet via TCP/IP the Interest Groups List of lists is available via anonymous FTP from ftp.nisc.sri.com (192.33.33.53). FTP as user anonymous and CD to "netinfo" then GET interest-groups . The file is available as one large file at this time (over 500,000 characters). The SRI NIC list-of-lists is now available via electronic mail. Send a message to mail-server@nisc.sri.com with the following line in the message body: Send netinfo/interest-groups ...and you should be returned the file in moderate sized pieces. Further information on the server itself is available with the command Send help BITNET LISTSERV Servers Global List of Public LISTSERV Lists On BITNET the LISTSERV servers keep a composite list of their lists online. To get a simple "one line per list" list of all lists (about 1600 lines at the moment) you can send LISTSERV@VM1.NoDak.EDU mail with the command LIST GLOBAL in the TEXT or BODY of the mail. NOTE: LISTSERV wants the commands in the text of the mail and you can supply more than one - one per line. The Subject: field is NOT used for commands (you can put anything there). The global list can also be searched online. For details send LISTSERV the command INFO DATABASE . The global lists is called the "LISTS" database and is available at some of the major backbone LISTSERVs. Network Accessible Database Server We have also added the Internet Interest-Groups list in a format that can be searched (called the INTGROUP database). This is only available on the LISTSERV at NDSUVM1 (or VM1.NoDak.EDU). For example, to search of both these databases for lists on "bicycles" you would send the statements //DBlook JOB Echo=No Database Search DD=Rules //Rules DD * Select bicycle in lists index Select bicycle in intgroup index Select bicycle in new-list index in the text/body of the mail to LISTSERV@VM1.NoDak.EDU or on BITNET just LISTSERV@NDSUVM1 . These statements would search the global LISTSERV list of lists ("in lists"), and the local copy of the SRI-NIC Interest Groups ("in intgroup"), and the archives of the "new-list" list ("in new-list"). Send LISTSERV the command INFO DATABASE for more information. Usenet NEWS Lists of Groups and Mailing Lists The Usenet News list of groups and mailing lists is available on hosts which run Usenet News or NETNEWS servers and/or clients in newsgroups news.announce.newusers and news.lists. The following files are also available via anonymous FTP from VM1.NoDak.EDU in the "BITINFO" directory. Once connected enter CD BITINFO . These may not be the most current versions of these files but may be more accessible to folks on NSFNET. Name on vm1.nodak.edu Source INTEREST.GROUPS Recent Interest-Groups from ftp.nisc.sri.com NETNEWS.MAILLIST Usenet News Mailing Lists from news.lists NETNEWS.GRPLIST Usenet Groups from news.lists NETNEWS.ALTERNAT Usenet Alternate Groups from news.lists -- comp.archives file verification ftp.nisc.sri.com -rw-rw-r-- 1 nisc ftp 513329 Sep 21 1990 /netinfo/interest-groups found list-of-lists ok ftp.nisc.sri.com:/netinfo/interest-groups