Is 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.
At one point I was the admin/moderator for 13 lists at the same time. This was 1994-1996 approximately.<p>Lsoft was filling some large voids with LISTSERV and LSMTP. Then Mailman came around and really took over.<p>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
I cruised some BITNET lists before they went dark. 132 column lineprinter listings.<p>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...