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History of Listserv
- Alex3917 8y agoIs there a good way to find publicly available Listserv-type email groups? I know Listserv has a page of groups running their software, but it doesn't surface things like the Python email lists, which run on Mailman.
- davidcollantes 8y agoNot that many public email groups running on Listserv, as it is rather expensive.
- nucleardog 8y agoGeeze you weren't kidding. LISTSERV Classic: $2,525 - $16,900 http://www.lsoft.com/products/listserv_license.asp?currency=USD&license=perpetual http://www.lsoft.com/products/listserv_license.asp?currency=...
- ggm 8y agoI cruised some BITNET lists before they went dark. 132 column lineprinter listings. I loved the moment finding the Camel Breeders of the middle east using Teaching Hospital networks (IBM systems) to discuss vet science issues in camel semen...
- dhimes 8y agoSounds like a helluva moment...
- ggm 8y agonah, they're doing real work. The thing is, I realized very quickly as a sysad running email and USENET systems, that there was already a huge community beyond my ken, waiting for a service which wasn't about ICT, but was about "them" and then the web hit ...
- jason_slack 8y agoAt one point I was the admin/moderator for 13 lists at the same time. This was 1994-1996 approximately. Lsoft was filling some large voids with LISTSERV and LSMTP. Then Mailman came around and really took over. Did anyone else find it weird that so many mailing lists ended in -L? I understand why but normal people probably didn’t know -L stood for list and techy people would have known it was a list without -L