Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists (Last changed: 2 March 1986)
use...@gatech.uucp
[Most recent change: 2 March 1986 by spaf]
This is a list of mailing lists available on the network. A mailing
list is different from a newsgroup because you do not receive anything
unless you specifically request it. To be added to a mailing list,
please mail a note to the contact for that list.
Some of the lists mentioned may be available as limited-distribution
newsgroups. Contact the administrator for exact details.
Please note the following caveats: publication of a list here does not
guarantee that you will be allowed to join as a member. That is up to
the moderator and readers, and they have the right to restrict access
to their list as they see fit. Mailing lists use MUCH less system
overhead on a net-wide basis but do tend to increase loading on the
moderators' machines so the number of people that can be added to a list
may be limited by machine resources as well.
If you have a list that you want added to this posting or are interested in
starting a list but don't know how, drop me a note at ..!gatech!spaf.
Groups listed in this posting
mail.anime
mail.atari
mail.bizarre-people
mail.christian
mail.compress
mail.computers&society
mail.esperanto
mail.feminists
mail.firearms
mail.frplist
mail.jazz
mail.kate-bush
mail.lan-news
mail.medphys
mail.men
mail.new-age
mail.nuke-winter
mail.ocean.policy
mail.OtherRealms
mail.prisoner
mail.scribe
mail.security
mail.supercomputers
mail.tartan-c
ug.bizarre
Specific Information on Groups
mail.anime
Contact: ihnp4!oliveb!long (Dave Long)
Purpose: To provide information exchange for Japanese animation fen.
mail.atari
Contact: ucbvax!ucbseymour!c50-2fl (Will Hom)
Purpose: To discuss and comment any aspect of ownership, programming,
use and/or future of any model Atari computer.
mail.bizarre-people
Contact: m...@k.cs.CMU.EDU -or- seismo!k.cs.cmu.edu!mcb
Purpose: To fill the void left by the deletion of net.bizarre.
That is, this is a "bizarre" mailing list.
mail.christian
Contact: umcp-cs!tove!mailjc-request
mailjc-...@tove.umd.EDU
Purpose: To provide a non-hostile environment for discussion among
christians; not to hide our discussions from non-christians.
Non-christians may join the list and "listen-in", but full blown
debates between Christians and non-Christians are best carried out
in net.religion.
mail.compress
Contact: {decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!joe
Purpose: discussions about file compression, especially Lempel-Ziv
algorithms.
mail.computers&society
Contact: {hplabs,gatech,ihnp4!hpfcla}!hpcnof!d_taylor (Dave Taylor)
or hpcnof!dat@HPLABS{.CSNET,.ARPA}
Purpose: To provide a discussion forum for issues related to the
impact of technology and information on society. Among the issues
being discussed are: dealing with information overload, the
classed society in the information age, the public perception of
computers, the value of information, the dangers and advantages of
reliance on machines, various issues of relevence to the risks of
technological dependence and other related topics. Furthermore,
this mailing list comes out in digest form, but everything sent
will be posted (with the usual caveats).
mail.esperanto
Contact: ...!{decvax,ihnp4,ucbvax}!trwrb!trwspp!urban (Mike Urban)
Purpose: This list is a forum for people interested in the neutral
international language Esperanto. Discussions about the language
itself, the Esperanto movement, publications, and news are
encouraged; of course, discussion *in* the language itself are
especially encouraged, although English translations may be
advisable when the material is of interest to beginners or
non-Esperantists.
mail.feminists
Contact: {ihnp4,clyde,decvax,allegra}!watmath!jamcmullan
Purpose: The feminist mailing list is intended to provide a forum
for discussion of issues of interest to women, in a friendly
atmosphere. The basic tenets of feminism and the day to day
experiences of women do not have to be explained or defended.
mail.firearms
Contact: {ihnp4,cbosgd}!cbrma!kk
Purpose: The mailing list mail.firearms has been created to provide
an environment in which sportsmen can discuss issues of concern to
them. Topics include but are not limited to hunting, firearms
safety, legal issues, reloading tips, maintenance suggestions,
target shooting, and dissemination of general info. Anyone is
welcome to join -- note that we do NOT intend to discuss the merits
of gun control.
mail.frplist
Contact: mcvax!ukc!warwick!frplist (Russell Quin)
Purpose: mail.frplist is for people interested in designing or
running Role Playing Games or Campaigns; all kinds of Rolegaming
(including SF) are included.
The list does not reach the ARPA net at this time, so you must
supply a uucp path relative to a *major* uucp site in order to join
the list.
mail.jazz
Contact: {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,utzoo}!watmath!watbun!kgdykes
Purpose: discussions of various flavors of Jazz Music
mail.kate-bush
Contact: love-hounds-request@mit-eddie (both arpa and UUCP)
Purpose: Discussion of music and art and exchange of information
among Kate Bush fans.
mail.lan-news
Contact: sdcsvax!lan-news-request
lan-news...@sdcsvax.ARPA
Purpose: Discussion of the needs and implementation details of
netnews over a local area network environment.
mail.medphys
Contact: ...!mcnc!godot!medphys-request
Submissions: ...!mcnc!godot!medphys
Purpose: An attempt to foster electronic communication between
medical physicists, open to interested others. Medical physics is
a somewhat opaque but widely used synonym for radiological physics
-- the physics of the diagnostic and therapeutic use of radiation
in medicine. At present most of the subscribers are involved in
radiotherapy.
mail.men
Contact: {seismo,allegra,decvax,harvard,cmcl2}!rochester!mail-men-request
mail-men...@rochester.ARPA
Purpose: This digested mailing list discusses "men's issues" just
as mail.feminists discusses those of women. Both women and men may
join.
mail.new-age
Contact: ...!{ihnp4,sun}!hoptoad!tim
Purpose: The New Age Digest exists to facilitate the exchange of
ideas, views, and techniques of esoteric religions and movements
such as Thelema, Wicca, Masonry, and so on. The digest is eclectic
and welcomes interested people of all religions. Only
extra-ordinarily vile messages will be rejected, but all messages
are subject to spelling and format correction (but NOT content
editing). Anonymous messages will be transmitted on request.
mail.nuke-winter
Contact: {ihnp4,seismo,cbosgd}!sun!plaid!nuke-winter-request
Purpose: To help share information about nuclear winter, report
findings of current research, and explore the implications of the
event.
mail.ocean.policy
Contact: {ihnp4,dual,vortex}!islenet!scott
Purpose: Discussions of the legal, economic, and military aspects
of ocean use policies. Specific issues include the "law of the
sea", pending treaties, economic implications of EEZs and the
military use of the sea. Coordinated by Dr. Scott Allen, Associate
Director, International Law of the Sea Institute, University of
Hawaii.
mail.OtherRealms
Contact: ...!{cbosgd,ihnp4,seismo}!sun!plaid!fanzine
plaid!fan...@sun.ARPA
Purpose: An experimental alternative to sf-lovers, this is the
mailing list to OtherRealms, an attempt at a traditional fanzine
on an electronic medium.
mail.prisoner
Contact: {allegra,burdvax,astrovax}!sjuvax!iannucci
Purpose: Discussions of the television series 'The Prisoner'.
mail.scribe
Contact: scribe-hac...@utah-cs.arpa -or-
...!ihnp4!utah-cs!scribe-hacks-request
Submissions: scribe...@utah-cs.arpa -or-
...!ihnp4!utah-cs!scribe-hacks
Purpose: This list is designed for persons who perform the role of
Scribe Database Administrator at their installation. Discussion
will be about Scribe features, bugs, enhancements, performance,
support, and other topics of interest to Scribe DBAs. The list
will NOT be moderated, but will simply consist of a mail
"reflector" - ie. if you send a message to the list, it will be
rebroadcast to everyone on the list. Discussion at the level of
"How do I get a paragraph to indent 5 spaces instead of 3?" is
specifically discouraged.
mail.security
Contact: (boulder,nbires)!cisden!sec-request
Purpose: Discussion and comment (and sometimes bug fixes) which
touch on the security aspects of the UNIX operating system. This
mailing list is joined at the pleasure of the applicant's System
Administrator and/or the list administrator.
mail.supercomputers
Contact: supercompu...@nyu.ARPA -or- cmcl2!supercomputer-request
Submissions: superc...@nyu.ARPA, cmcl2!supercomputer
Purpose: To discuss "supercomputers" and related technology.
Contact the list administrators for more information.
mail.tartan-c
Contact: astrovax!tartan-c-requests
Purpose: Discussion related to the Tartan C compiler for the vax.
This can include bug reports, benchmarks, C quirks handled
differently by tcc, experiences compiling system source with tcc,
etc.
ug.bizarre
Contact: mit-eddie!frog!john (John Woods)
Purpose: This is a limited distribution newsgroup
intended to take the place of the net.bizarre former newsgroup.
It is not a mailing list in the true sense of the word, but
a newsgroup with a selected distribution. Contact John for
further details.