I wonder if anyone could help me uncover the number of mailing lists there might be in the world? the most recent figures I've got are from April 1997 estimating the number of lists, from the Liszt directory, at 71,618. Liszt seems to have commercial since then - possibly being a spam site, and I can't find anything more recent. Obviously the total number of active lists is more interesting than the total number of lists, but i'll take anything at the moment :) Thanks jon UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER ======================================================================== This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. ========================================================================
Biggest I know about are http://groups.yahoo.com/ (used to be egroups.com) and http://www.topica.com/ then there is http://www.dgroups.org/ don't forget AOL has e-mail lists too.. On Sunday, February 1, 2004, at 08:21 PM, Jonathan Marshall wrote:
I wonder if anyone could help me uncover the number of mailing lists there might be in the world?
the most recent figures I've got are from April 1997 estimating the number of lists, from the Liszt directory, at 71,618.
Liszt seems to have commercial since then - possibly being a spam site, and I can't find anything more recent.
Obviously the total number of active lists is more interesting than the total number of lists, but i'll take anything at the moment :)
Thanks
jon
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For lists that use L-Soft's Listserv software, try: http://www.lsoft.com/catalist.html The February 2nd update says that there are 326,798 Listserv lists; 69,188 of them are public. -- Holly Kruse Faculty of Communication University of Tulsa 600 S. College Ave. Tulsa, OK 74104 918-631-3845 holly-kruse@utulsa.edu
Have a look at Yahoo Groups. They have some 12,000 lists on the topic of Paganism alone. You'll have to click on the different categories and add up the numbers to find out the total of all lists, and surely most of them are inactive--but if you do calculate the number, let the rest of us know. Mark
I wonder if anyone could help me uncover the number of mailing lists there might be in the world?
jon
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