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What is it with MIT and mailing lists? I don't know anyone who doesn't go to MIT that uses them the way my MIT friends do. I go to ASU, the only mailing lists

What is it with MIT and mailing lists? I don't know anyone who doesn't go to MIT that uses them the way my MIT friends do. I go to ASU, the only mailing lists I'm a part of are the ASU Linux User Group and a bunch of MIT lists that I've found my way to.

dheera 9y ago
Mailing lists are awesome! E-mail is an open protocol so it's easy to write advanced filters that you can't do with Facebook or other walled gardens. I had an algorithm trained to recognize free food, for example. At MIT they can also double-up as AFS groups so it's easy to control access and message a team without having to update membership in two places.
- hawaiianbrah 9y ago
  Wasn't there a list for free food? (I assume you mean for mails sent to other lists..)
  - hueving 9y ago
    Op didn't say it was a complex algorithm. :)
    - dheera 9y ago
      It was a Bayesian spam filter I wrote and trained to recognize free food instead of spam. I signed myself onto about 800 mailing lists.
ghaff 9y ago
Probably generally old style hacker tradition. My company is also mostly email, email lists, and IRC.
tripzilch 9y ago
more like what is it with the rest of the world that stopped using them (the answer is Facebook and IM, obviously)