dveditz@dbase.UUCP (Dan Veditz) (10/27/89)
Several times in the discussion over in news.groups and news.admin it has been suggested that fledgling groups start out as mailing lists until the traffic gets large enough to warrant a new usenet group. If this happens then there should be a lot of mailing lists out there happily doing their thing -- how do I find out what they are? I've caught a couple of lists starting up, but can't find lists-in-progress. -Dan
mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard) (10/27/89)
dveditz@dbase.UUCP (Dan Veditz) writes: >...there should be a lot of mailing lists out there >happily doing their thing -- how do I find out what they are? The batch of monthly postings to news.announce.newusers includes an article entitled "Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists". In addition to listing some 150 mailing lists, it contains the following information: Rich Zellich (zellich@nic.ddn.mil) maintains a list of mailing lists that exist primarily on the Arpanet/Milnet. His list overlaps this one in a few places, but the lists are largely distinct. A copy of his list may be obtained by sending mail to "service@nic.ddn.mil" with the text "netinfo interest-groups.txt" in the "Subject:" field. The list will be broken into sections and mailed back. Please see the news.announce.newusers article for more details. Please note, by convention there are two addresses for each mailing list. There's "list-name@site" and "list-name-request@site". Messages sent to the first address get redistributed to all subscribers. The request address should be used for all administrative matters such as "Please add me" messages. [IOW, if you send a message to 500 people asking to be added to a list, and only one of them can do anything about it, you'll have 499 total strangers around the world thinking you're a weenie. And we all know how embarrassing that can be.]