Re: [Air-l] List of Mailing Lists
In a message dated 10/18/2001 2:18:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time, John.White@wku.edu writes:
I would be interested in identifying resources for 'lists' of mailing lists.
The only one I know about is Catalist: http://www.lsoft.com/catalist.html It is incomplete, insofar as it is limited to public lists that use L-Soft software (LISTSERV). I'd be interested to hear about similar resources. Cheers, Bob Briggs Westport, MA
The major "list of lists" used to be Liszt.com . This was recently purchased by Topica, which is at http://www.topica.com . Catalist appears to only reference lists that specifically use the Listserv software................Alex Alex.Kuskis@utoronto.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: <Zunt@aol.com> To: <air-l@aoir.org> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 7:27 PM Subject: Re: [Air-l] List of Mailing Lists
In a message dated 10/18/2001 2:18:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time, John.White@wku.edu writes:
I would be interested in identifying resources for 'lists' of mailing lists.
The only one I know about is Catalist:
http://www.lsoft.com/catalist.html
It is incomplete, insofar as it is limited to public lists that use L-Soft software (LISTSERV).
I'd be interested to hear about similar resources.
Cheers,
Bob Briggs Westport, MA
--On Thursday, October 18, 2001 7:27 PM -0400 Zunt@aol.com wrote:
I would be interested in identifying resources for 'lists' of mailing lists.
The only one I know about is Catalist:
http://www.lsoft.com/catalist.html
It is incomplete, insofar as it is limited to public lists that use L-Soft software (LISTSERV).
In addition to Catalist (which, as has been noted, includes only L-Soft lists, I know of the following (listed in no particular order): Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists (Stephanie DaSilva) http://paml.alastra.com/indexes.html This is indexed by Subject and by List Name Tile Net http://tile.net/lists/ Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences (Diane Kovacs) http://www.kovacs.com/directory.html In the process of relocating. In the past, this has been updated only once a year, I think, but it includes more info than some of the other listings. The listing that used to be most comprehensive and up-to-date was Liszt, but the guy who created it eventually turned it over/sold out to Topica ( http://www.topica.com/ ). Topica provides lots of listings, but it's not nearly as impressive as Liszt used to be. And then, of course, there's Yahoo Groups (formerly E-groups formerly One List): http://groups.yahoo.com/ . This lists only Yahoo groups, but there are zillions of them. They come and go very quickly, but some have been around for years. Searchable. Also, the searchable archives of NEW-LIST may yield some relevant lists: http://listserv.classroom.com/archives/new-list.html . I might also mention that for women-related lists, you might try my Gender-Related Electronic Forums: http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/forums.html It includes information about more than 600 such lists and includes a section on Cyberculture/Internet Info. Joan Joan Korenman, Director Center for Women & Information Technology University of Maryland, Baltimore County Baltimore, MD 21250 USA korenman@umbc.edu http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/
And then, of course, there's Yahoo Groups (formerly E-groups formerly One List): http://groups.yahoo.com/ . This lists only Yahoo groups, but there are zillions of them. They come and go very quickly, but some have been around for years. Searchable.
It should be pointed out that the majority of yahoogroups are considered "private" groups which are not in the directory that is accessible to all. Moderators have the option of choosing whether or not their group is searchable or listed in the directory. danah
--On Friday, October 19, 2001 3:14 PM -0400 danah boyd <danah@media.mit.edu> wrote:
It should be pointed out that the majority of yahoogroups are considered "private" groups which are not in the directory that is accessible to all. Moderators have the option of choosing whether or not their group is searchable or listed in the directory.
While it may be that Yahoo Groups includes many "private" lists, it includes many thousands of public lists as well. For example, the sub-section "Cyberculture" offers information about 1661 publicly accessible lists. And that's just one of 19 sub-sections of "Computers & Internet." Joan Joan Korenman, Director Center for Women and Information Technology University of Maryland, Baltimore County Baltimore, MD 21250 USA korenman@umbc.edu http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/
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