Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!emv From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Newsgroups: comp.archives Subject: [news.newusers.questions] Re: Mailing Lists Message-ID: <1991Jan9.021825.13212@ox.com> Date: 9 Jan 91 02:18:25 GMT References: <1090@toaster.SFSU.EDU> Sender: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Followup-To: news.newusers.questions Organization: San Francisco State University Lines: 24 Approved: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) X-Original-Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Archive-name: mail/guides/interest-groups/1991-01-05 Archive: ftp.nisc.sri.com:/netinfo/interest-groups [192.33.33.53] Original-posting-by: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Original-subject: Re: Mailing Lists Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) In article shawn@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Shawn Broderick) writes: >Does there exist a list of the world's mailing lists? I understand >that this would probably be a LARGE thing, but it would be an >interesting reference. There's not one, but several. First of all, there's a list distributed with each edition of news.announce.newusers. (You DID check n.a.n first, right?) Since you're on Internet, anonymous FTP from ftp.nisc.sri.com netinfo/interest-groups will get you about half a megabyte's worth. BITNET people can send a LIST GLOBAL to any handy LISTSERV. Subscribe to NEW-LIST for updates. -=EPS=-