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Some Lists of Lists
Compiled by Marty Hoag (nu021172@vm1.nodak.edu)
File: LISTSOF LISTS from LISTSERV@NDSUVM1
or LISTSERV@vm1.nodak.edu
Updated 04/27/94
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PLEASE NOTE:
Arno Wouters has taken this information and more and written
"How to Find an Interesting Mailinglist". To obtain a copy just
send e-mail to LISTSERV@vm1.nodak.edu or LISTSERV@NDSUVM1 on BITNET
with the command GET NEW-LIST WOUTERS in the BODY.
This document is an informal collection of "hints" which may
help you find e-mail lists on specific topics. If you have an
announcement you would like to distribute, PLEASE send it ONLY
to the one or two lists whose subscribers would be most interested.
WARNING:
At NO time should mail be sent to many lists or "all lists".
Such "junk mail" causes many duplications and network congestion
and is a violation of the spirit of most network usage agreements.
If you are in doubt about this policy please check it out with
your system administrators before sending mail to a list.
If you are sending e-mail to more than three lists think again.
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There are several different lists of lists available:
The "Interest Groups List of Lists" available from sri.com
(also known as Interest-Groups or SIGLIST or Interest lists)
The LISTSERV global list database (on BITNET/EARN/et al)
A combined edited list available from Dartmouth College.
The Usenet News news.lists "Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists"
There is also a mailing list which can help you get started on the
network or to help you find lists of interest:
HELP-NET HELP-NET@TEMPLEVM BITNET/CREN/INTERNET Help Resource.
Send e-mail to LISTSERV@TEMPLEVM.BITNET with the text
SUB HELP-NET yourfirstname yourlastname
Another source is NEW-LIST@VM1.NoDak.EDU (NEW-LIST@NDSUVM1.Bitnet)
which publishes announcements of new lists. To subscribe to NEW-LIST
send mail to LISTSERV@vm1.nodak.edu (or LISTSERV@NDSUVM1.BITNET) with
the BODY of the mail containing the command:
SUB NEW-LIST yourfirstname yourlastname
SRI NIC Maintained Interest-Groups List of Lists
If you have access to the Internet via TCP/IP the Interest Groups
List of lists is available via anonymous FTP from sri.com . FTP as user
anonymous and CD to "netinfo" then GET interest-groups . The file is
available as one large file at this time (over 500,000 characters).
The SRI NIC list-of-lists is now available via electronic mail.
Send a message to mail-server@sri.com with the following line in
the message body:
Send netinfo/interest-groups
...and you should be returned the file in moderate sized pieces.
Further information on the server itself is available with the command
Send help
BITNET LISTSERV Servers Global List of Public LISTSERV Lists
On BITNET the LISTSERV servers keep a composite list of their lists
online. To get a simple "one line per list" list of list titles with
a specific "string" in the title send LISTSERV@vm1.nodak.edu (or on
BITNET LISTSERV@NDSUVM1) the command below in the BODY of mail:
LIST GLOBAL /string
for example, list global /geograph to find list titles with words
like "geography", "geographer", etc. in them.
To receive a list of ALL the lists on the Revised LISTSERV servers
(over 4400 lines at the moment) you can send LISTSERV@VM1.NoDak.EDU
mail with the command
LIST GLOBAL
in the TEXT or BODY of the mail. Since that list is fairly large
it would be better to keep a "public" copy on your system to be
shared. NOTE: LISTSERV wants the commands in the text of the mail and
you can supply more than one - one per line. The Subject: field is
NOT used for commands (you can put anything there).
The global list database can also be searched online. For details
send LISTSERV the command INFO DATABASE . The global lists is called
the "LISTS" database and is available at some of the major backbone
LISTSERVs.
Network Accessible Database Server
We have also added the Internet Interest-Groups list in a format
that can be searched (called the INTGROUP database). This is only
available on the LISTSERV at NDSUVM1 (or VM1.NoDak.EDU).
For example, to search of both these databases for lists on "bicycles"
you would send the statements
//DBlook JOB Echo=No
Database Search DD=Rules
//Rules DD *
Select bicycle in lists
index
Select bicycle in intgroup
index
Select bicycle in new-list
index
in the text/body of the mail to LISTSERV@VM1.NoDak.EDU or on BITNET
just LISTSERV@NDSUVM1 . These statements would search the global
LISTSERV list of lists ("in lists"), and the local copy of the SRI-NIC
Interest Groups ("in intgroup"), and the archives of the "new-list"
list ("in new-list"). NOTE: The local copy of the SRI NIC "intgroup"
files are often not current. FTP from sri.com for current copy.
Send LISTSERV the command INFO DATABASE for more information.
Usenet NEWS Lists of Groups and Mailing Lists
The Usenet News list of groups and mailing lists is available on
hosts which run Usenet News or NETNEWS servers and/or clients in
newsgroups news.announce.newusers and news.lists.
The following files are also available via anonymous FTP from
VM1.NoDak.EDU in the "BITINFO" directory. Once connected enter
CD BITINFO . THESE MAY NOT BE THE CURRENT VERSIONS of these files
but are listed for your convenience.
Name on vm1.nodak.edu Source
INTEREST.GROUPS Recent Interest-Groups from sri.com
NETNEWS.MAILLIST Usenet News Mailing Lists from news.lists
NETNEWS.GRPLIST Usenet Groups from news.lists
NETNEWS.ALTERNAT Usenet Alternate Groups from news.lists
NOTE: Again, your best source for current versions of these files
is from their original source (SRI.COM or netnews).
Dartmouth Merged List
Dartmouth maintains a merged list of the LISTSERV lists on Bitnet
and the Interest Group lists on the Internet. It is a single file
with one line for each mailing list. They provide a Macintosh Hypercard
application that presents the list in a nice format. Other
applications could easily be developed to provide a user interface to
these data that is appropriate for a site's local situation.
The files can be obtained by anonymous FTP from
DARTCMS1.DARTMOUTH.EDU <129.170.16.19> in directory SIGLISTS. They
can also be obtained (except the large data stack) via Bitnet from
LISTSERV@DARTCMS1 using the command SEND fn ft. To obtain a list of
the files via LISTSERV send mail to LISTSERV@DARTCMS1
(LISTSERV@DARTCMS1.DARTMOUTH.EDU) with the command:
INDEX SIGLISTS
in the body of the mail. For more information contact David Avery,
DAVID@DARTCMS1.BITNET or david@dartcms1.dartmouth.edu.