Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!karl_kleinpaste From: karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: List of Mailing Lists Message-ID: Date: 10 Jul 90 17:43:15 GMT References: <1990Jul10.154315.22096@uncecs.edu> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: Ohio State Computer Science Lines: 152 khj@uncecs.edu writes: Does anyone know of a list (with brief explanations) of the major/common mailing lists? I seem to have seen such a list some time in the past. You can get the List-of-Lists from the NIC as the set of files netinfo:interest-groups-X.txt, X == {1..11}. There's quite a lot of interesting, useful, and important information available there. Here's the listing: [146] [11:27am] giza:/n/giza/0/karl> ftp nic.ddn.mil Connected to nic.ddn.mil. 220 NIC.DDN.MIL FTP Server Process 5Z(47)-6 at Tue 10-Jul-90 10:35-PDT 331 ANONYMOUS user ok, send real ident as password. 230 User ANONYMOUS logged in at Tue 10-Jul-90 10:35-PDT, job 48. Remote system type is TOPS20. Remember to set tenex mode when transfering binary files from this machine. ftp> dir netinfo: 200 Port 18.10 at host 128.146.8.61 accepted. 150 List started. TS: 00NETINFO-INDEX.TXT.134,135 AIB.DOC.27 ALTERNATE-DOMAIN-PROCEDURE.TXT.20 ALTERNATE-DOMAIN-TEMPLATE.TXT.10 ASN.TXT.17,18 ASN-TEMPLATE.TXT.5 BITNET-DOMAIN-TEMPLATE.TXT.6 BLACKER.DOC.3,4 C30E-INTERFACE-GUIDE.DOC.1 DOMAIN-CHART.PS.1 DOMAIN-CHART-ABBREV.PS.1 DOMAIN-CHART-ABBREV-LIST.TXT.1 DOMAIN-CHART-LIST.TXT.1 DOMAIN-CONTACTS.TXT.149,150 DOMAIN-INFO.TXT.160,161 DOMAIN-TEMPLATE.TXT.49 DOMAINS.ARC.1 DOMAINS.TXT.167,168 FOREIGN-TAC-PHONES.TXT.28,29 FYI-INDEX.TXT.1 GOSIP.DOC.4 HADMINBYADDR.TXT.214,215 HOST-ADMIN-DUTIES.TXT.11 HOST-LOCATION.TXT.132,133 HOSTS.TXT.966,967 HOSTS.TXT-Z.966,967 HOSTSERVER-INSTRUCTIONS.TXT.14,15 IEN-INDEX.TXT.109 IHOST-TEMPLATE.TXT.16 IN-ADDR-TEMPLATE.TXT.1 INTEREST-GROUPS.TXT.52 INTEREST-GROUPS-1.TXT.52 INTEREST-GROUPS-10.TXT.52 INTEREST-GROUPS-11.TXT.52 INTEREST-GROUPS-2.TXT.52 INTEREST-GROUPS-3.TXT.52 INTEREST-GROUPS-4.TXT.52 INTEREST-GROUPS-5.TXT.52 INTEREST-GROUPS-6.TXT.52 INTEREST-GROUPS-7.TXT.52 INTEREST-GROUPS-8.TXT.52 INTEREST-GROUPS-9.TXT.52 INTERNET.PINGING.13 INTERNET-NUMBER-TEMPLATE.TXT.40,41 KERMIT-INFO.TXT.10 KERMIT-NICSERVER.TXT.2,3 KERMIT-TAC-INFO.TXT.9,10 MIL-CONFIG.TXT.155,156 MIL-HOST-ADMINISTRATORS.TXT.171 MIL-HOST-ADMINISTRATORS-A-L.TXT.118,119 MIL-HOST-ADMINISTRATORS-M-Z.TXT.115,116 MIL-HOSTS.TXT.966,967 MIL-MAILBRIDGE-HOMINGS.TXT.3 MIL-NSC.TXT.254,255 MIL-NSC-TEMPLATE.TXT.4,5 MIL-PSN-COORD.TXT.128,129 MIL-TACACS-INSTRUCTIONS.TXT.14 MMM-1.TXT.1 MMM-10.TXT.1 MMM-11.TXT.1 MMM-12.TXT.1 MMM-13.TXT.1 MMM-14.TXT.2 MMM-15.TXT.1 MMM-16.TXT.1 MMM-17.TXT.1 MMM-18.TXT.1 MMM-19.TXT.1 MMM-2.TXT.1 MMM-20.TXT.1 MMM-21.TXT.1 MMM-22.TXT.1 MMM-23.TXT.1 MMM-24.TXT.1 MMM-25.TXT.1 MMM-26.TXT.1 MMM-27.TXT.4 MMM-3.TXT.1 MMM-4.TXT.1 MMM-5.TXT.1 MMM-6.TXT.1 MMM-7.TXT.1 MMM-8.TXT.1 MMM-9.TXT.1 MMM-INDEX.TXT.18 NBSOSI-AGREEMENTS.DOC.1 NETWORKS.TXT.967,968 NIC-PUBS.TXT.120,121 NSC-HADMIN-DUTIES.TXT.1 NUG.DOC.21 OSDIR-1.TXT.3 OSDIR-2.TXT.4 OSDIR-3.TXT.4 OSDIR-4.TXT.4 OSDIR-5.TXT.4 PROTOCOLS-DOD.BIB.8 PROTOCOLS-DOD.PS.6 RESPONSIBLE-PERSONS.TXT.27 RFC-BY-AUTHOR.TXT.1165 RFC-BY-TITLE.TXT.1165 RFC-INDEX.TXT.1165 RFC-SETS.TXT.26,27 ROOT-SERVERS.TXT.17,18 SENDMAIL-CF-DOC.TXT.1 SENDMAIL-GENERIC.TXT.2 SENDMAIL-INTERNET-GENERIC.TXT.2 SIMTEL20.ARCHIVES.8 SPONSOR-NETS.INFO.2,3 TAC-LOCATION.TXT.174,175 TAC-PHONES.LIST.457 TAC-USER.DOC.23 TCP-IP-BIB.TXT.16 TEST.FTP.10,11 TP4-MEMO.TXT.2 UNIX-FTPD.SHAR.1 US-DOMAIN.TXT.1,2 USA-TAC-PHONES.TXT.35,36 USER-TEMPLATE.TXT.15 VENDORS-GUIDE.DOC.208 VENDORS-TEMPLATE.TXT.11,12 VIRUS-PATCH.TXT.10 WBS-NOTES-INDEX.TXT.4 WHAT-THE-NIC-DOES.TXT.69,70 WHO-DDN.TXT.50 WHOIS-INFO.TXT.11 X25.DOC.6 226 Transfer completed. ftp> quit 221 QUIT command received. Goodbye. --karl