Mailing lists Mailing lists CONLANG is the name of an e-mail list devoted to the discussion of constructed languages of all kinds (except that 'evangelism' of auxiliary languages, such as Esperanto, is disapproved of), and linguistics in general. The CONLANG list is an established community with upwards of 600 members, including many regular high-volume contributors, comprising professional linguists as well as amateurs. Its archives are located at a server in Brown University. ...more on Wikipedia about "CONLANG"
Cybermind is an Internet mailing list devoted to "the philosophy and psychology of cyberspace." It was co-founded by Alan Sondheim and Michael Current in mid-1994 to explore, exemplify and discuss multiple aspects of cyberspace, both from theoretical and experiential perspectives. The list was born in the split of the spoon collective lists from the Thinknet group, over issues of free speach and appropriate philosophical expression. Early membership involved much overlap with the Futureculture List. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cybermind"
Electronic mailing lists are a special usage of email that allows for widespread distribution of information to many Internet users. Software is installed on a server which processes incoming email messages, and, depending on their content, either acts on them internally or distributes the message to all users subscribed to the mailing list. Popular examples of mailing list software include GNU Mailman, LISTSERV and Majordomo. Today, mailing lists are most often used for collaboration on various projects and as a way of distributing current news and other such information. One very popular mailing list is Bugtraq. ...more on Wikipedia about "Electronic mailing list"
Gmane (pronounced "Mane") is an e-mail to news gateway. It allows users to access electronic mailing lists as if they were Usenet newsgroups. Gmane is an archive, it never expires messages. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gmane"
GNU Mailman is a GNU package for managing electronic mailing lists. It is free software/ open source software, distributed freely under the GNU General Public License. Similar software programs include Majordomo and ezmlm; Mailman's chief distinction is its easy-to-use Web interface for list administration. ...more on Wikipedia about "GNU Mailman"
The Linux kernel mailing list (LKML) is a electronic mailing list focusing on the discussion of Linux kernel development. Many other mailing lists exist to discuss the different subsystems and ports of the linux kernel, but LKML provides the glue that holds the kernel development community together. It is a very high volume list, usually receiving between 200-300 messages a day. ...more on Wikipedia about "Linux kernel mailing list"
LinuxChix is a women-oriented mailing list and IRC community for Linux users. It is designed to provide both technical and social support for women Linux users, although there are members of the community who are men. Members of the community are referred to as "a Linux chick" (singular) and "LinuxChix" or "Linux Chix" (plural) regardless of gender. The term LinuxChix refers to the organisation centered around the official website, the mailing lists and the IRC channels. The organisation has no official status and the name is used by other groups which are comparatively loosely affiliated with the original LinuxChix group, including local LinuxChix chapters which meet in person, and several national and continental groups which operate more or less independently. ...more on Wikipedia about "LinuxChix"
A mailing list archive is a collection of past messages from one or more electronic mailing lists. Such archives often include searching and indexing functionality. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mailing list archive"
MajorCool is a utility for managing Majordomo lists via a CGI script and was developed by Bill Houle. It is released for use by NCR Corporation who retain the copyright. It is designed to be easier-to-use than text based configurations, in that it uses a more user-friendly web-based interface. ...more on Wikipedia about "MajorCool"
Majordomo is an open source mailing list manager (MLM) developed by Great Circle Associates. It works in conjunction with sendmail on UNIX and related operating systems. It came into widespread use beginning in 1992, predating the popularity of the web browser, in an era when many people had email access but no WWW access. As a result, tasks such as subscribing and unsubscribing are handled by sending mail messages, a process that seems cumbersome today. ...more on Wikipedia about "Majordomo (software)"
MARC (Mailing list ARChive) is a computer-related mailing list archive. It archives over 24 million emails from over 1900 mailing lists, with approximately 300,000 new mails added per month. The archive is hosted by the company 10East, formerly called the AIMS Group, and is maintained by a group of volunteers led by Hank Leininger. ...more on Wikipedia about "MARC (archive)"
Plan 9 may refer to: ...more on Wikipedia about "Plan 9"
The Mail Archive is a free public mailing list archive. Rather than requiring the owner of a public mailing list to make arrangements to archive it, anyone can subscribe The Mail Archive to their list (as a user account) in order to archive all subsequent mails appearing on the list. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Mail Archive"
Thread hijacking is the act of taking a forum discussion thread wildly off topic by discussing a subject entirely unrelated to the subject at hand. ...more on Wikipedia about "Thread Hijacking"
__NoTOC__ tinywords is the homepage for a free mailing list that sends one haiku per day to subscribers (haiku are a short form of Japanese poetry). The daily haiku are available as an email, as an RSS web feed, or by visiting the website. As of July 2005, there were over 2,500 subscribers to the mailing list. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tinywords.com"
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