Dave Butler's Guide to Electronic Mailing Lists  

What's Here?

In 1996 I began subscribing to a lot of email lists, some of which I've listed here. Some of the contact info has been rechecked in Oct 2000, but much is probably out of date. Please let me know of any changes you discover by sending me an email.

Many of these lists relate to community activism. Some relate to my personal interests. Some are lists which I recommended to my students in the Bridge Project, where in the fall of 1996 I was an Internet trainer for public school teachers and literacy tutors.

In 1997 as a Tech Volunteer for the Free Library of Philadelphia, I wrote separate pages on Mailing Lists for Librarians and Mailing Lists for Teachers.

For a comprehensive searchable index of mailing lists, check out Liszt, the mailing list directory.

There are a number of sites which offer FREE mailing lists, as well as broader discussion forums which combine more than just mailing list services. Egroups and Topica are widely used services which have bought out a number of smaller competitors such as OneList. Many of the popular search engines, such as Yahoo, now offer web communities which include chat areas, photo archives and calendars. For every category listed in Yahoo's topic directory, there is a community. If you don't want to fit into a category, you can start your own Yahoo Club. All of these are FREE services, supported by inobtrusive ads. Many news services, such as CNN, offer message boards for current events topics.

1998 Finds

• BESTWEB list (Best-Web-Sites Announcement List). Send a one-line message -- subscribe BESTWEB-- to listserv@vm3090.ege.edu.tr
  Here's a digest of 4 Feb 1998.
  Topics of the day:
  1. Internet Time-Line
  2. Needed..... Time Calculator (3)
  3. "My Heart Will Go On"
  4. Clip Art of Romance Gallery
  5. Newspaper article on Valentine's Day (2/13/98)
  6. Personal Pages
  7. Finding people
  8. Things and Places ??
  9. Another way
  10. Inquiry for Friend
  11. Environmental Ratings for Congress Released

• UPDATES-LFRF: PASSPORT TO KNOWLEDGE / LIVE FROM THE RAINFOREST. Send a one-line message -- SUBSCRIBE UPDATES-LFRF-- to listproc@quest.arc.nasa.gov

• ECOCITY: Sustainable Urban Development. Send a one-line message -- subscribe ECOCITY your_name -- to LISTSERV@SEGATE.SUNET.SE

• Community Technology Centers Network discussion list for computer recycling, ctcrecycling. Send a one-line message -- subscribe ctcrecycling -- to Majordomo@tristram.edc.org

• Computer recycling list, comprecycle, a place to share computer recycling ideas. Send a one-line message -- subscribe comprecycle your_name -- to listproc@mcfeeley.cc.utexas.edu. Here's a message posted to this list on 26 Oct 1997 titled How-To for Computer Repair, Install.

Community Activism

• Neighbors-Online. List host Ed Schwartz says, 'If you want to keep in touch with neighborhood activists from all parts of Philadelphia, you can subscribe to neighbors-online -- an email list that brings us all together.' I joined this list in 1996 and it is my favorite discussion forum relating to Phila. To subscribe visit the Neighbors-Online web site.
  
• Another list from Ed Schwartz is build-com. 'This list is managed by Ed Schwartz at the Institute for the Study of Civic Values for neighborhood activists and organizations that want to use the "Building Community in the American Tradition" online discussion guide within their own neighborhoods and communities.
  The online guide can be accessed via the ISCV web site: http://libertynet.org/~edcivic/iscvhome.html.' To join this mailing list, Send a one-line message -- subscribe build-com -- to majordomo@libertynet.org.'
  
• Civic Values is a national discussion list sponsored by Institute for the Study of Civic Values -- ' ... a mailing list devoted to an ongoing dialogue on how Americans can work as citizens to achieve the ideals embodied in the Declaration of Independence, and the Preamble to the Constitution through active participation in communities and neighborhoods throughout the United States.' As this list receives dozens of messages per week, I suggest starting with the digest. -- send mail with body SUBSCRIBE CIVIC-VALUES-DIGEST to Majordomo@world.std.com.
  
• Philadelphia's LibertyNet Volunteers List. Send a one-line message -- subscribe ln-vols -- to majordomo@libertynet.org.'
  
• COMMACTIONLIST. ' ... a nationwide Internet Correspondence List to facilitate communication: (1) between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Community Services (OCS) and its grantee network, and (2) among anti-poverty Community Action Agencies, non-profit Community Development Corporations, Housing Development Corporations, and similar organizations.' Send a one-line message -- subscribe commactionlist your_name -- to listproc@reddog.acf.dhhs.gov
  Here's a message posted to this list on 4 Feb 1998 re Homeless People's Network.
• ACTIV-L is a moderated list for political activists. To subscribe send mail with body SUBSCRIBE ACTIV-L to LISTSERV@MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU -- Because this is a high volume list I've chosen to receive a summary only. Once you have subscribed you can send mail to same address, with body: SET ACTIV-L INDEX to receive just a list of article titles with sender's ID, with instructions on obtaining selected articles. The articles on list ACTIV-L also appear on a moderated newsgroup on Usenet called misc.activism.progressive. If you have access to Usenet, you may prefer to read the newsgroup rather than subscribe to ACTIV-L. There is also an UNMODERATED newsgroup alt.activism which includes most, or maybe all, of the articles on ACTIV-L, and lots of additional feedback (flame war zone). To subscribe to the (moderated) list send mail with body SUBSCRIBE ACTIV-L to LISTSERV@MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU -- Because this is a high volume list I've chosen to receive a summary only. Once you've subscribed you can send mail to same address, with body: SET ACTIV-L INDEX to receive just a list of article titles with sender's ID, with instructions on obtaining selected articles.
  
• ABOLISH (Capital Punishment). To subscribe, send mail to listserv@SJUVM.stjohns.edu with the following command in the body of your email message: subscribe ABOLISH your name
  
• `The PEOPLE'S TRIBUNE is available on the League of Revolutionaries for a New America page at http://www.mcs.com/~league For free electronic subscription, email: pt-dist@noc.org with the word "subscribe" in the subject.'
  
• CD4URBAN "Community Development Society Urban Info-Sharing Forum." Effective 14 Dec 1997, to subscribe, send mail to cd4urban-request@lists.brigadoon.com with the command subscribe in the body of your email message. Or subscribe to the digest by sending to cd4urban-digest-request@lists.brigadoon.com.
  
• PNEWS-L mailing list (Progressive News & Views List) by Hank Roth [odin@SHADOW.NET]. To subscribe send mail with body SUBSCRIBE P-NEWS to LISTSERV@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU.
  
• NJ-SPEAKOUT: `We will serve as a clearing house for New Jersey debate and discussion about what direction to go for those truly sincere about reversing the trend toward hegemony over our lives by the international corporate elite. Our focus will be the common, poor, middle class, and working people of the state of New Jersey. We will serve as a means to organize and mobilize our forces for a fightback like this state has never seen bef ore. ...The list is associated with an igc.apc conference called njspeakout.' To subscribe send mail with body SUBSCRIBE NJ-SPEAKOUT to Majordomo@igc.apc.org.
  
• PA-EXPOSE. `The Pennsylvania Expose Project is a project of the Pennsylvania Alliance for Democracy. Its goals are: 1) publicizing the existence of progressive groups mobilizing to counter the message of Religious Right political groups, 2) bringing progressive groups in Pennsylvania together to work on coordinated strategies and the sharing of resources, 3) publicizing the latest religious right and far-right initiatives in the state of Pennsylvania, and 4) mobilizing the progressive community.' To subscribe, send mail to pa-expose-request@critpath.org with the following command in the body of your email message: subscribe pa-expose your name
  
• MULT-CUL Multicultural discussion list. To subscribe, send mail to LISTSERV@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU with the following command in the body of your email message: SUBSCRIBE MULT-CUL
  
• ALAWON. ` ... a free, irregular publication of the American Library Association Washington Office. To subscribe, send the message: subscribe ala-wo [your_firstname] [your_lastname] to listproc@ala.org. ALAWON archives at http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon. Visit our Web site at http://www.alawash.org.'
  
• APPALDEV (Appalachian Development List). To subscribe send to LISTSERV@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU email with Subj: (blank), Message: SUB APPALDEV your name
  
• NASHE ` ... the listserver for the National Association of Students for Higher Education (NASHE). NASHE is a non-profit, non-partisan organization formed in 1995 as a vehicle for students to lobby on higher education issues, increase student impact on the political process, and build leadership on college campuses. This list has been established to communicate regular legislative updates, circulate information about upcoming conferences and events, coordinate grassroots efforts, and facilitate discussion about issues of concern to the organization.' To subscribe, send mail to listserver@relay.doit.wisc.edu with the following command in the body of your email message: subscribe NASHE your name
  
• prisonact-list, Prison activist list. To subscribe send mail with body SUBSCRIBE prisonact-list to Majordomo@igc.apc.org.
  
• For What It's Worth, a mailing list from The Conservative Corner `... attempts to assemble quality non-mainstream Conservative text files.' To subscribe to mailing list FWIW send to: listserv@earth.execpc.com email with Subj: (blank), Message: SUBSCRIBE FWIW
  
• Dendrite, ' ... the mailing list for people who take action for human rights in psychiatry.' To subscribe, send email to majordomo@efn.org with just these two words in body of your message, not subject line:
  subscribe dendrite
  
• Communet: Community and Civic Network Discussion List -- To subscribe send mail with body SUBSCRIBE COMMUNET to LISTSERV@UVMVM.UVM.EDU. If this doesn't work try LISTSERV@UVMVM.BITNET. For summary only follow up with message SET COMMUNET DIGEST.
  
• Subscribe to TAP-RESOURCES (Tax Payer Assets Project) by emailing message to
  LISTSERV@AMERICAN.EDU with body
  SUBSCRIBE TAP-RESOURCES your name
  -- no subject
  
• Stamper's News Nuggets, a random compilation of news items, web & other internet sites: `This is a read-only list for delivery of a net.letter containing choice morsels of news about politics and juicy Internet stuff.... Stamper's News Nuggets is compiled by Chris Stamper and is not supported by any group or organization....' To subscribe send mail with body SUBSCRIBE NUGGETS to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU.

Technology Training and Development

• COMPINST-L (Computer Instructor Listserv). ` ... This listserv is a regional listserv for Northern California (USA) Computer Instructors. We tend to have a lot of job postings and information that center around San Francisco and Sacramento, California. People from other states and parts of the world are welcome to join, however keep in mind that there is a lot of regional content.' To subscribe, send mail to listserv@netcom.com with the following command in the body of your email message: subscribe COMPINST-L your name
• NETTRAIN. `This list is intended to provide a forum for Network Trainers to discuss various issues related to network use and training.' To subscribe, send mail to LISTSERV@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu with the following command in the body of your email message: SUBSCRIBE NETTRAIN your name
• Subscribe to DEVEL-L (Technology Transfer in International Development) by emailing message to LISTSERV@AMERICAN.EDU with body subscribe Devel-L your name -- no subject

• Subscribe to TRDEV-L (TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT) by emailing message to LISTSERV@AMERICAN.EDU with body subscribe TRDEV-L your name -- no subject

Web Page Coding

• Philadelphia's LibertyNet hosts the HOMEPAGE mailing list. 'The purpose of this discussion group is for LibertyNet staff to give HTML and web design tutorials to nonprofit organizations.' To join this mailing list, send mail with body SUBSCRIBE HOMEPAGE to Majordomo@philadelphia.libertynet.org.
• ADV-HTML. `ADV-HTML is a heavily moderated discussion list for the discussion of advanced hypertext markup language and other advanced Web topics.' To subscribe, send mail to LISTSERV@ua1vm.ua.edu with the following command in the body of your email message: subscribe ADV-HTML your name
• CGIHTML. To subscribe, send mail to Majordomo@hcs.harvard.edu with the following command in the body of your email message: subscribe CGIHTML

Environment

• Rachel's Environment & Health Weekly from the Environmental Research Foundation. To subscribe, send E-mail to rachel-weekly-request@world.std.com with the single word SUBSCRIBE in the message body.
• NRDC-NEWS. `[Last updated on: Fri Jun 16 1995] ... As a subscriber, you will receive 'State of Nature'--a bulletin from the front lines of the environmental protection movement. Published by the Natural Resources Defense Council every two weeks (or more), 'State of Nature' will keep you up-to-date on important events in the field. The initial focus of this bulletin will be anti-environmental legislation, inspired by the Contract with America, that is currently sweeping through Congress. We will also feature a changing list of environmental health stats. Later, we'll expand our coverage.
  To subscribe, send mail to Majordomo@igc.apc.org with the following command in the body of your email message:
  subscribe nrdc-news
  
• The Sierra Club electronic mailing list is for legislative alerts and other important information. If you want to join the list, send e-mail to: majordomo@igc.apc.org. with the following command in the body of your e-mail message:
  subscribe sc-action
  
• WILDLIFE ECOLOGY Digest (WED), as described at the WED web site, is a weekly e-mail digest for research, conversation, job opportunities, issues, thoughts, and general postings concerning wildlife ecology... To receive this free, e-mail digest, please send e-mail to: wildside@saber.net with the subject: Subscribe to WED

• AEROSO-L list (A discussion group on particulate matter (PM) in ambient air). To subscribe, send mail to LISTSERV@HEARN.nic.SURFnet.nl with the following command in the body of your email message: subscribe AEROSO-L your name
  
• GSENET-L (THE GARDEN STATE ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK). `A joint project of the Grass Roots Environmental Organization of New Jersey (GREO), 201-252-0797, and the New Jersey Environmental Bulletin Board System (NJEBBS), 201-316-0952, 8N1.' To subscribe, send mail to Majordomo@igc.apc.org with the following command in the body of your email message: subscribe GSENET-L your name
  
• AUDUBON-PA. `This is the National Audubon Society's online discussion group for members in Pennsylvania, where you can share timely information about environmental issues, compare notes about chapter activities, and interact with Audubon's staff in Pennsylvania.' To subscribe send mail to Majordomo@igc.apc.org with the following command in the body of your email message: subscribe audubon-pa

• ENVIRONMENT-L. This list is maintained by the Center for the Environment as a general discussion list on topics of the environment. We hope students, faculty, and staff at Cornell University as well as those outside the university will use it to discuss aspects of the environment as it relates to Cornell, the Ithaca area, and New York State, although wider area topics are encouraged as well.
  To SUBSCRIBE send a message to listproc@cornell.edu. The body of the message should read: SUBSCRIBE ENVIRONMENT-L your_name

• ENVIRONEWS from The EnviroLink Network.
Welcome to the EnviroNews Service. This service will update you daily with all sorts of news about the environment from around the world.
To SUBSCRIBE send a message to listproc@envirolink.org. The body of the message should read: SUBSCRIBE ENVIRONEWS
• CERES-L (Collaborative Environments for Conserving Earth Resources). To SUBSCRIBE send a message TO:
  LISTSERV@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU
  The body of the message should read:
  SUBSCRIBE CERES-L
  
• Dialog-Agua-L -- `the information pipeline of the Inter-American Water Resources Network.... `The purpose of this mail discussion list is to provide the Inter-American Dialogue on Water Management (IADWM) and its Inter-American Water Resources Network (IWRN) with the means to share water information technology, and expertise among the countries of the Western Hemisphere (via the Internet).'
  To SUBSCRIBE send a message TO:
  MAILSERV@ACC.FAU.EDU
  The body of the message should read:
  SUB DIALOG-AGUA-L "firstname lastname"
• Also see the Environment section of my Mailing Lists for Teachers page.

Personal Development

• CHOCO, the Chocolate Archives. `On the sixth of each month this mailing list receives a copy of recipes gathered from various net sources, all of which contain, of course, that food of the gods - Chocolate. The sources for the recipes include, but are not limited to: rec.food.chocolate, rec.food.cooking, rec.food.recipes, and the Chocolate and FOODWINE mailing lists.' To subscribe, send mail to Majordomo@apk.net with the following command in the body of your email message: subscribe choco

International Politics

• MENA-H list (History of the Mideast and North Africa). To subscribe, send mail to LISTSERV@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU with the following command in the body of your email message: subscribe MENA-H
  
• MER Mid-East Realities. `THE COMMITTEE ON THE MIDDLE EAST (COME) & MID-EAST REALITIES (MER) For latest information: http://www.MiddleEast.Org To be added to the MER e-mail list message to LISTSERVER@MiddleEast.Org with only words SUBSCRIBE MER-L in the subject & message areas.'

About the Internet

• Patrick Crispen and Bob Rankin's Tourbus, `a virtual tour of cyberspace' has an archive on the web. To subscribe, send mail to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM with the following command in the body of your email message: subscribe TOURBUS your name
  
• SCOUT-REPORT. To subscribe send email to listserv@cs.wisc.edu. In the body of the message type: sub scout-report. Or visit the web site and subscribe using a web form. Years ago the intro message read, `The Scout Report is a weekly publication offering a selection of new and newly discovered Internet resources of interest to researchers and educators, the InterNIC's primary audience. However, everyone is welcome to subscribe to one of the mailing lists ...'
• NET-HAPPENINGS includes many items specifically for teachers. These articles are indicated by the prefix `K12' in the subject line. To subscribe, send mail to majordomo@is.internic.net with the following command in the body of your email message: SUBSCRIBE NET-HAPPENINGS
  You may also view postings to this list at newsgroup comp.internet.net-happenings
  

Computer Support

• PC-ASK. Do you have questions about Windows? DOS? PC hardware? "PC-ASK is one-stop PC support forum." To subscribe send to LISTSERV@maelstrom.stjohns.edu message with body: subscribe PC-ASK
  After your subscription is confirmed, you may want to set it to DIGEST mode after you get your immediate question answered, so that you'll receive one message a day, rather than 10 or 20. Send message: set PC-ASK digest
  Next time you ask a question you'll probably want to set PC-ASK nodigest to get your answer as quickly as possible.

• ACCESS-L: Microsoft Access Database Discussion List. To subscribe send to LISTSERV@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM message with body: subscribe ACCESS-L
  This list will arrive in digest form, unless you specify otherwise.
  
• EXCEL-L: Microsoft Excel Developers List. To subscribe send to LISTSERV@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM message with body: subscribe EXCEL-L
  After your subscription is confirmed, you may want to set it to DIGEST mode -- send set EXCEL-L digest
  
• NOVELL list (Novell LAN Interest Group). To subscribe send to LISTSERV@LISTS.INTERNIC.NET message with body: subscribe NOVELL
  
• WOW `... Woody's Office Watch ... ... a FREE weekly bulletin of the latest in news, tips and tricks for users of MICROSOFT OFFICE ... (a Microsoft Word & Office guru comes to your desktop every week!)' To subscribe, send mail to OHWOW@TMX.NET with the following command in the body of your email message: subscribe ohwow
  
• pctech-l list (MS-DOS Compatibles Support Group). To subscribe, send mail to LISTSERV@VM.EGE.EDU.TR with the following command in the body of your email message: subscribe pctech-l your name

Nonprofit Organizations

• Fundraising on the Internet -- fundraising-online : Welcome to the Internet Mailing List dedicated to Fundraising on the Internet, operated by Mal Warwick & Associates and the Institute for Global Communications. We'll use this mailing list to send out periodic announcements about events, Website updates, books, workshops, and online resources that we think are of interest. This mailing list has a companion Website at http://www.FundraisingOnline.com where you will find Website reviews, interviews, news you can use and workshop announcements. To subscribe, send mail to Majordomo@igc.org with the following command in the body of your email message: subscribe fundraising-online
  
• AOL has two very active lists on volunteerism. `VOLUNTEERS is dedicated to the discussion of all aspects of voluntary service to the community. Professional volunteer program managemnent discussion may be found on CYBERVPM.'
• CYBERVPM (Online networking for volunteer program managers). To subscribe, send mail to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM with the following command in the body of your email message: subscribe CYBERVPM your name
• VOLUNTEERS (Discussing issues relating to voluntary service to the community). To subscribe, send mail to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM with the following command in the body of your email message: subscribe VOLUNTEERS your name
  
• USNONPROFIT-L To subscribe, send mail to usnonprofit-l-request@rain.org with Subject: subscribe
  Here's a message posted to this list on 12 Jun 1997 from the Benton Foundation. This message's topics include Local Places, Global Connections: Libraries in the Digital Age, 'a collaboration of the Benton Foundation and Libraries For the Future, who share a belief in libraries as vital community institutions in the Digital Age.'
• PRSPCT-L, Prospect Research Discussion List, ' ... an unmoderated list provided as a forum for discussion of prospect research issues. It is intended to serve educational, non-profit and service organization Prospect Researchers and other development professionals with an interest in professional prospect research. Substantial areas of discussion will include prospect research resources, techniques, ethics, job announcements, and other topics of interest.... You may join the list at any time by sending the following command to command to LISTSERV@BUCKNELL.EDU:
  SUBSCRIBE PRSPCT-L
  Where firstname = your real first name, and where lastname = your real last name.'

Music

• folk_music. New American Folk Music discussion List. Folk_music is a moderated discussion list dealing with the music of the recent wave of American singer/songwriters.... To subscribe to the list IN DIGEST FORM, send mail to majordomo@nysernet.org with this request as the only line in the body of your message: Subscribe folk_music-digest ... To subscribe to the list AS INDIVIDUAL MESSAGES, send mail to majordomo@nysernet.org with this request as the only line in the body of your message: Subscribe folk_music

• GOSPEL-L Gospel Music Discussion List. To subscribe, send mail to Maiser@rmgate.pop.indiana.edu with the following command in the body of your email message: subscribe GOSPEL-L
  To read a rambling history of this list, and hear some of my piano playing in MIDI format, check out my Gospel List page: http://www.voicenet.com/~dbut/listg1.htm
  
• HWY61-L (The Bob Dylan Discussion List). To subscribe send to LISTSERV@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu email with Subj: (blank), Message: SUB HWY61-L your name
• BLUES-L list (Blues Music List). To subscribe send to LISTSERV@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU email with Subj: (blank), Message: SUB BLUES-L your name
  
• community-music-digest: `The Community Music Email List is for the discussion and distribution of ideas relating to Community Music Ensembles, specifically community bands and orchestras.'
  To subscribe send an email with the text line
  subscribe community-music-digest
  to:
  majordomo@austx.tandem.com

News Groups Versus Mailing List Services

A comparison of Usenet news with Email Listservs appears in this post from PUB-ADV, a public library advocacy mailing list. You can subscribe to PUB-ADV by emailing message to
majordomo@virginia.edu with body
subscribe pub-adv [first name] [last name]
-- no subject
`PUB-ADV is a listserv on the Internet established and moderated by Libraries for the Future . The discussion list is for public library users, advocates, friends of the library and anyone else concerned with public library issues.' | Index | This list has also included discussion of plans to wire US public buildings, libraries and schools for Internet, telecommunication industry response and related lobbying efforts. Here's a sample.

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Electronic Mailing Lists

• Guide to Electronic Mailing Lists
• Mailing Lists for Librarians
• Mailing Lists for Teachers

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• Guide to Usenet News Groups

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