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[This is the eleventh of fourteen articles on mailing lists.]

Pac Ten Sports
    Contact: [e-mail] (Cliff Slaughterbeck)

    Purpose: The Pac Ten Sports Mailing List is an unmoderated mailing
    list dedicated to discussing sports of all types which are played
    competitively within the Pac Ten Athletic Conference.

pagan
    Contact: [e-mail] (Stacey Greenstein)

    Purpose: To discuss the religions, philosophy, etc. of paganism.

PAGEMAKER
    Contact: [e-mail]

    Purpose: The PageMaker listserv is dedicated to the discussion of
    Desktop Publishing in general, with emphasis on the use of Aldus
    Pagemaker. The list discusses PageMaker's use on both the PC and
    Macinotsh realms. The list also maintains an extensive archive of
    help files that are extremely useful for the modern desktop publisher.
    Come join us!

    Subscription requests should go to the following address:

     [e-mail]

   Subscriptions are in the standard listserv format (send a message
   SUB PAGEMAKR <full name> to the address shown above).

   Owner: [e-mail] (Geoff Peters)

pal-announce
    Contact: [e-mail] (Richard Conn)

    Purpose: Announcements concerning the Public Ada Library
    (PAL), including notices of new releases.  The Public Ada
    Library carries Ada and VHDL source code, documents, and courseware
    as well as many items of general interest to the software engineering
    and software reuse communities.

    To subscribe to this list, send email to the List Server named above.
    Leave the subject line blank, and place one line in the body of the
    message:
        subscribe pal-announce

Panic
    Contact: [e-mail]

    Purpose: This is a support group for panic disorders. Discussion
    involving phobias resulting from panic (Agoraphobia and others).
    Also a place to meet people who have gone through the disorder as well.

paragon-managers
    Contact: (machine) [e-mail]
             (human)   [e-mail] (J. Eric Townsend)

    Purpose: Discussion of administrating the Intel PARAGON line of
    parallel supercomputers
    To subscribe, send a message to [e-mail] with a
    *body* of "subscribe paragon-managers your_full_name".

paragon-users
    Contact: (machine) [e-mail]
             (human)   [e-mail] (J. Eric Townsend)

    Purpose: Discussion of programming and using the Intel PARAGON line of
    parallel supercomputers
    To subscribe, send a message to [e-mail] with a
    *body* of "subscribe paragon-users your_full_name".

Paranoia
    Contact: [e-mail]

    Purpose: Discussion of the forthcoming Amiga game from AGE Entertainment
    Software, "Paranoia".  Includes progress reports from the developers and
    user's questions and comments answered directly, as quickly as possible.
    To subscribe, send a "Subscribe <[e-mail]> Paranoia" to
    [e-mail].  For more information, send a "Help Paranoia"
    message to [e-mail].

PARKINSN
    Contact: [e-mail]

    Purpose: This is a discussion list for those who have Parkinson's,
    their caregivers, family members, and anyone else who has an interest
    in the care or treatment of Parkinson's.

    Send a regular mail message to:

              [e-mail]

    and in the body of the note, use any of the following commands:

    SUBscribe PARKINSN Yourfirstname Yourlastname (Join the list)

    UNSUBscribe PARKINSN (Leave the list. Your name is not required)

    INDex PARKINSN      (Get a list of files you can retrieve from
                         the PARKINSN listserver)

    GET PARKINSN filename   (Get a file from the PARKINSN listserver)

       To communicate with the list manager, send mail to:
           Barbara Patterson ([e-mail])

Park Rangers
    Contact: [e-mail] (Cynthia Dorminey)

    Purpose: This list is primarily for anyone working or interested in
    working as a ranger (general, interpretive, etc.) for the National
    Park Service (U.S.A.), but rangers from state and county agencies as
    well as other countries are also welcome.  The group discusses numerous
    topics related to this profession.

ParNET
    Contact: [e-mail] (Ben Jackson)

    Purpose:  To discuss the installation, use and modification of
    ParNET, an Amiga<->Amiga networking program.  Please direct
    comments and questions to [e-mail].

partners
    Contact: [e-mail]

    Purpose: To advise the administration of Carnegie Mellon University,
    through the Vice-President of Human Resources (who reads the list)
    of developments in Domestic Partnership benefits and make
    recommendations on CMU policy regarding benefits.

pas-lovers
    Contact: [e-mail] (Steven C. Neighorn)

    Purpose: This list exists for the discussion of the Pro Audio
    Spectrum family of PC sound cards.

    To subscribe, send a one-line message to:
    [e-mail]

    subscribe pas-lovers Name <email-address>

    For example:

    subscribe pas-lovers Darci Chapman <[e-mail]>

    Owner: [e-mail]

Patchwork
    Contact: [e-mail]
             [e-mail]

    Purpose: The distribution of original works of poetry and prose.  The
    list is not limited to fiction, however, as anything you wish to share
    with the list membership is allowed, provided it contains no vulgar or
    obscene references or language.  Pornographic material is not accepted.
    Selected submissions are archived.

    To subscribe, send a message to [e-mail] with a
    subject and body of SUBSCRIBE [ADDRESS].  ([ADDRESS] is optional and
    should be the address you wish to subscribe under, if it is different
    from the address you use to send the request.)

PB-Cle-Raves (Pittsburgh/Cleveland Raves)
    Contact: [e-mail] (Joe LeSesne)

    Purpose: One of several regional rave-related mailing lists,
    PB-Cle-Raves covers the Pittsburgh and Cleveland metropolitan
    areas exclusively.

PBL
    Contact: [e-mail] (Roger Hadgraft)

    Purpose: Announcing an e-mail list for those interested in PBL.

    The list is an automatic way of keeping in touch with other
    PBLers in several countries around the world. It is an
    informal network that allows you to read contributions from
    others, and to respond to their questions and comments. It
    is not an archive of published papers. It is most like a
    conversation between many participants, and consequently, it depends
    on enthusiastic contributions from all subscribers.

    Currently there are over 100 subscribers from the USA (50%), Canada
    (16%), Australia (28%), NZ, UK, etc (the rest).

    To subscribe, send the following one line e-mail message (as the
    body of the message, not the Subject: line):

       sub pbl-list

    to:    [e-mail]

    Once subscribed (it'll take a few minutes) send messages to:

       [e-mail]

    Send problems to me:

       [e-mail]

pc532
    Contact: [e-mail]  (Dave Rand)

    Purpose: a mailing list for people interested in the pc532
    project. This is a National Semiconductor NS32532 based system,
    offered for a very low cost.

pcgeos-list
    Contact: [e-mail]

    Purpose: Discussion forum for users or potential users of PC/GEOS
    products, including GeoWorks Ensemble, GeoWorks Pro, GeoWorks POS,
    and third party products.  Topics include general information, tips,
    techniques, applications, experiences, etc.

pd-games
    Contact: [e-mail] (Thomas Gramstad)

    Purpose: pd-games is a mailing list for game theory, especially
    Prisoner's Dilemma type of problems.  Purely technical issues and
    questions, as well as discussions of specific scientific applications,
    as well as political and ideological aspects and consequences of game
    theory are welcome, and it is a hope that the list will contribute
    towards the goal of elucidating and making known the nature of and the
    conditions for voluntary and mutual social cooperation.


pdp8-lovers
    Contact: [e-mail]  (Robert E. Seastrom)

    Purpose: This mailing list exists in order to facilitate
    communication and cooperation between owners of vintage DEC
    computers, specifically, but not limited to, the PDP-8 series of
    minicomputers.  Discussions of all manner of hardware, software,
    programming techniques are invited.  Ownership of an 'antique'
    computer is not required for membership, but flames from people
    who feel that anything that is not cutting edge technology is
    worthless are discouraged.

pdx-motss
    Contact: [e-mail]

    Purpose: Discussion of LGB issues in the Portland, Oregon metro area.

pen-pals
    Contact: [e-mail]

    Purpose: To provide a forum for children to correspond electronically
    with each other.  Hopefully this will help them improve their writing
    skills in a non-hostile environment.  It can serve as a meeting place
    for them from which they can take their discussions off-line.  This
    list is not moderated, but is monitored for content.  Those who misuse
    the list will be sent e-mail off-line explaining their mis-use and
    potentially bumped from the list.  This list is managed by listproc.

People of the South Wind
    Contact: [e-mail]

    Purpose: A group devoted to Kansas (the band) and their music.

periodont
    Contact: [e-mail] (Heiko Spallek)

    Purpose: The list will be distributed bi-weekly. All contributions are
    moderated: The main issue of the list is to effectivly inform all
    periodontal interested dentists. It will contain advices for diagnostics
    and therapy, information about new products for periodontology, reports
    of international congresses, drug informations, scientific exchange -
    discussions about all periodontal topics.

    To Add Yourself To This List, Please Send E-Mail To:

    [e-mail]

    please put ADD in the subject line.
    Describe your involvement in the dental profession and you'll be manually
    added to the list.

PERQ-fanatics
    Contact: [e-mail]

    Purpose: For users of PERQ graphics workstations.  There is also an
    associated newsgroup that was recently started: alt.sys.perq.

    To subscribe, users should send a message, containing
    the word SUBSCRIBE to [e-mail].

Peru
    Contact: [e-mail] (Herbert Koller)

    Purpose: For discussion of Peruvian culture and other issues.
    This mailing list is simply an echo site, so all posts get
    bounced from that address to all the people subscribed.

PetriNets
    Contact: [e-mail]

    Purpose: The steering committee for the International Conference on
    Application and Theory of Petri Nets has decided to offer a mailing
    group to people interested in Petri Nets. The mailing group is
    moderated, and it offers discussion of any subject related with Petri
    Nets, including announcements of related events.

pfc-update
    Contact: [e-mail]

    Purpose: This mailing list provides weekly updates on new material
    added to the Global Network Navigator (http://gnn.com/) Personal
    Finance Center.  Each update includes information about new investment
    and personal finance resources available on the Internet and a listing
    of new articles and columns added to the Personal Finance Center (PFC)
    over the past week.

    To subscribe to the update mail list, send e-mail to:
    [e-mail] . In the body of the message write:
    subscribe pfc-update your-first-name last-name

ph7
    Contact: [e-mail]

    Purpose: A list which talks about Peter Hammill and related rock
    groups.  To subscribe send a message containing:
    subscribe ph7 My Real Name

Phonecard collectors
    Contact: [e-mail]

    Purpose: A forum for people who collect debit type payment cards which
    are used worldwide in public card telephones, and already in some areas
    on many other applications as well. Most countries are known to have some
    sort of phonecards in use. The list is a subscriber to the Compuserve
    Telequest forum run by [e-mail] (James Moran), and has
    a very international readership.

    To subscribe, send mail to [e-mail] with

        subscribe phonecard-collectors Firstname Lastname

    in body of the message.

phonestation
    Contact: [e-mail]

    Purpose: For discussion of "Telephone - Workstation Integration".
    The mailing list was formed after the Winter '92 USENIX in response
    to Stephone Uhler's paper about his "phonestation" project.

    To subscribe, send mail to

    [e-mail]

    the body of the mail (not the subject line) should
    contain:

    subscribe phonestation
    or
    subscribe phonestation-digest

    To get to the list maintainer (currently me), mail should
    be sent to

    [e-mail]

PHOTO-CD
    Contact: [e-mail] (Don Cox)

    Purpose: The KODAK Photo-CD Mailing List provides libraries of
    information on KODAK CD products or technology and closely related
    products.  Information in the library section is posted and
    maintained by KODAK.  The mailing list is an open discussion area
    to talk with other Internet users interested in our CD technology
    and products.  KODAK will participate in message conversations on
    occasion.  KODAK does not guarantee the accuracy of information
    passed between mailing list users.

    PHOTO-CD is a public mailing list. Those who wish to subscribe
    to it should send mail to the following address:

    [e-mail]

    with the command

    SUBSCRIBE PHOTO-CD <first-name> <last-name>

    on a line by itself in the body (and no other text).  Substitute
    your first name and last name where indicated; these will be used
    to identify you when you submit a message to the list.  Your
    electronic mail address will be derived from this subscription
    request message.

PhotoForum
    Contact: [e-mail]

    The PhotoForum is an educational network and databank established to
    serve photo educators and the photographic and imaging communities in
    general, with a communications link to discuss aesthetics, processes
    instructional strategies, techniques, criticism, equipment, history,
    electronic imaging, ethics, and other relevant topics especially, but
    not exclusively, as these apply in educational settings.

    The list is unmoderated.  Members include photography instructors and
    students, amateur and professional photographers, as well as members
    of photographic associations and educational institutions worldwide.

    To subscribe: Send a message to: [e-mail]
    with the following in the text portion of the message:

                  SUBSCRIBE PhotoForum <your-name-here>

    Once subscribed you will be provided with a more comprehensive list
    of requests you can issue to the [e-mail].

    To contact individuals responsible for managing the list, send mail to
    Andrew Davidhazy ([e-mail]) or Russell Kraus ([e-mail]).

physics
    Contact: [e-mail] (Mike Miskulin)

    Purpose: Physics is a newly created digest to cover current
    developments in theoretical and experimental physics.  Typical
    topics might include particle physics, plasmaphysics,
    astrophysics.  Discussions related to all branches (large and
    small) of physics are welcome.

picasso-users
    Contact: [e-mail]

    Purpose:  For users of the Picasso graphical User Interface
    Development System.

Pigulka
    Contact: [e-mail] (Marek Zielinski)
             [e-mail] (Dave Phillips)

    Purpose: Digest on the net news from Poland, in English.  Irregular.

Pipes
    Contact: [e-mail] (Steve Masticola)

    Purpose: The Pipes Mailgroup provides a forum for discussing the
    moderate use and appreciation of fine tobacco, including cigars,
    pipes, quality cigarettes, pipe making and carving, snuff, collectible
    tobacciana, publications, and related topics. The mailgroup is lightly
    moderated to prevent flame (except for the purpose of lighting up. :-)

Pisma Bralcev
    Contact: [e-mail] (Andrej Brodnik & Srecko Vidmar)
             [e-mail]

    Purpose: "Pisma bralcev" is an edited (not moderated) mailing list
    which provides the possibility of publishing readers' opinions,
    questions, inquiries for help, answers, etc.  There are also
    published travel tips and book reviews.  Anybody can send the letter
    to the editor and it will be published on the list under his name.
    The author can request anonymity and it will be respected entirely.
    The frequency of publishing is about one issue per day or less.  The
    language is originally Slovene, but other languages appear as well.

Pittsburgh Penguins
    Contact: [e-mail] (Gary Patalsky)

    Purpose: News, info, and discussion about the Pittsburgh Penguins.

PJD-L
    Contact: [e-mail]
             [e-mail]

    Purpose: The Philadelphia Jewish Discusion Group is a forum for the
    discussion of issues pertaining to Jewish community that lives or works
    in the Philadelphia area.

pkd-list
    Contact: [e-mail]

    Purpose: The discussion of the works and life of Philip K. Dick
    (1928-1982), one of the world's most unusual science fiction writers.
    Topics include his books and stories, and books and stories about him
    and his life; however, discussion can (of necessity) branch out into
    the nature of reality, consciousness and religious experience.

playboy
    Contact: [e-mail]

    Purpose: Whether you're a collector, a fan, or just a casual reader,
    the Playboy Mailing List has much to offer to the man or woman that
    reads Playboy, including exciting critial review, intelligent
    appreciation and examination of the Playboy lifestyle, and of course
    news about all your favorite Playmates. ;)

    Please note this is a *discussion* list.  The topic at hand is
    Playboy Magazine and Playboy Enterprises, Inc.  Virtually any related
    topic is appropriate, including, but not limited to: collecting,
    trade/sale/wanted posts, Playmate discussion, PEI business news, Hef
    sightings, product reviews (any media), and critical review &
    analysis.

    If this sounds like the list for you, send email to
    [e-mail] with the word "subscribe" in the subject
    header of your msg.

Player Pro Users
    Contact: [e-mail] (Jamal Hannah)

    Purpose: A mailing list for Macintosh owners who use the ShareWare
    program "The Player Pro", by Antoine Rosset <[e-mail]>,
    who is also on this list.  General discussion of the Amiga "MOD"
    (music Module) file format is allowed, as well as other "MOD" file
    players for the Macintosh.  The list is also for the reporting of
    Bugs associated with the Player Pro, and questions are answered related
    to problems using the program, as well as developer support.

plays
    Contact: [e-mail] (Elizabeth Lear Newman)

    Purpose: This is a mailing list gateway of the newsgroup
    rec.arts.theatre.plays

    If you would like to subscribe please e-mail to:
        [e-mail]
    Leave the subject blank and type "subscribe plays" in the text.

PNEWS CONFERENCES
    Contact: Hank Roth <[e-mail]>

    Purpose: To provide a cross-fertilization of ALTERNATIVE
    *LEFT* PROGRESSIVE views, to present positions that challenge
    prevailing views; and to vehemently oppose chauvinism, sexism,
    gay bashing, racism, antisemitism, etc. We discuss a myriad of
    issues in an effort to provide better understanding for root
    causes and agendas around these issues. These conferences
    serve to bring *PROGRESSIVES* together as an AFFINITY GROUP
    for SEEKING JUSTICE and COMMONALITY. We attempt to build
    SOLIDARITY and a COALITION for peace & justice [though not
    necessarily a consensus on all matters]. Serves as a conduit
    for information and articles from *Left* Wing sources.

    To subscribe: Send request to <[e-mail]>
    There are two mailing list conferences, pnews.d-L for
    discussion] and pnews-L [for articles]. These are part of a
    network of 5 PNEWS CONFERENCES. You can stipulate either list
    or both.

Poi-Pounders
    Contact: [e-mail] (John M. Relph)

    Purpose: Poi-Pounders is a mailing list for the discussion of
    the music and records of Poi Dog Pondering (the band).
    Poi-Pounders is distributed in both "reflector" and "digest"
    formats.  The Poi-Pounders digest is moderated by John Relph.

Police
    Contact: [e-mail]

    Purpose: This mailing list is dedicated as a service to keep fans
    of The Police and its members Sting, Stewart Copeland, and Andy
    Summers, informed and connected.

    To subscribe, mail to [e-mail], with "subscribe police"
    for the unmoderated list, or "subscribe police-digest" for the digested
    version, in the body of the message.

    Owner: [e-mail] (Pete Ashdown)

POP
    Contact: [e-mail] (Andy S Poling)

    Purpose: This list was formed, out of desperation for an organized
    source of information, to discuss the Post Office Protocol (POP2
    and POP3 - described in RFCs 918, 937, 1081, and 1082) and
    implimentations thereof.

    The driving interest was lack of easily obtained knowledge of
    available POP2 and POP3 servers and clients.  This mailing list is
    meant to provide this information.  Anyone, whether consumer or
    product provider is invited to participate.

porschephiles
    Contact: [e-mail]

    Purpose: This list is for people who own, operate, work on or simply
    lust after various models and years of Porsche automobiles. It's a
    good place to ask questions, talk about features and functionality,
    get advice on what to buy -- or for how much -- and in general sort
    of have a little electronic fellowship around the "driving passion"
    in our lives. Much like a PCA meeting, only distributed and real-time.

    This list is currently being run as a mail reflector, sending incoming
    messages to the whole list, which is currently over 350 people from
    all over the world. The participants include people with a variety of
    backgrounds, some very technical, some race/autocross/performance
    drivers and constructors, some owners, some admiring non-owners.

POS302-L
    Contact: [e-mail]

    Purpose: POS302-L is a discussion list created for the "Race,
    Ethnicity and Social Inequality" seminar offered at Illinois State
    University in the Spring, 1994 semester.  The general purposes of
    the list are to create an electronic-mail audience for the written
    work of the students in the course and to invite a broad audience
    to particpate in the seminar.

    Subscription to the list can be done by sending the following
    message to:   [e-mail]

    SUBSCRIBE POS302-L  Your Full Name, Institution

POSCIM
    Contact: UPS500@DBNRHRZ1 (Markus Schlegel)

    Purpose:  The Political Sciences Mailing list is intended as a forum
    of those researching, teaching or studying the subject as well
    as the practicians of politics.

    Being a private list, POSCIM tries to be free of the "noises"
    common to public lists or newsgroups related to politics.
    Exchange over research programmes and its results, over own
    projects and the arrangement of special events or congresses
    are only a few of the various options of communication via
    POSCIM.

    To join POSCIM, please contact
    UPS500@DBNRHRZ1
    [e-mail]
    [e-mail]

posix-ada
    Contact: umd5!grebyn!posix-ada-request
         [e-mail] (Karl Nyberg)

    Purpose: To discuss the Ada binding of the Posix
    standard.  This is the IEEE P1003.5 working group.

posix-testing
    Contact: [e-mail] (Chuck Karish)

    Purpose: This list will provide a forum for discussion of issues
    related to testing operating systems for conformance to the
    various POSIX standards and proposed standards (IEEE 1003.x and
    whatever derivative standards may emerge from the NIST, ANSI, ISO,
    and so on).

    These issues include problems related to test suites in general,
    testability of various features of the standards, and portability
    of the test suites to the many very different POSIX
    implementations we expect to see in the near future.  We'll focus
    on the test suites themselves, rather than on the standards to
    which they test (notably POSIX p1003.3).

Prince
    Contact: [e-mail]

    Purpose: The Prince list is devoted to discussing the musician,
    Prince, and related artists.

prion
    Contact: [e-mail]  (Chris Swanson)

    Purpose: While the main goal of the digest is to provide a
    resource for researchers working with prions and interested
    bystanders, all are welcome.  All articles posted will be included
    in the next digest.  If a poster feels that his posting is of an
    urgent nature, it may be distributed sooner than the regular
    digest.

PRL
    Contact: [e-mail]  (John Brewer)

    Purpose: The Pirate Radio SWL list is for the distribution of
    questions, answers, information and loggings of Pirate Radio
    Stations. This includes SW stations, MW (AM broadcast) and FM
    pirates.

profemen
    Contact: [e-mail]

    Purpose: It's a list for dicussion of issues that men who label
    themselves as profemenist face.  All genders are welcome.

    To subscribe:
    send the message: sub profemen Firstname Lastname
                  to: [e-mail]

    To unsubscribe:
    send the message: unsub profemen
                  to: [e-mail]

    To contact the list administrator, send mail to:
                       [e-mail]

Prog-Pubs
    Contact: [e-mail]

    Purpose: PROG-PUBS is a mailing list for people interested in
    progressive and/or alternative publications and other media.

    PROG-PUBS was originally created to facilitate and encourage
    communication among people interested in and active with the
    "alternative student press" movement.  However, the list's scope
    is now broader than this; we welcome and encourage participation
    from people involved in all kinds of small-scale, independent,
    progressive and/or alternative media, including newspapers,
    newsletters, and radio and video shows, whether campus-based or
    not.

Progress
    Contact: [e-mail]

    Purpose: Discussion of the Progress RDBMS.

project-management
    Contact: [e-mail]

    Purpose: The aim of the list is to discuss project management
    techniques generally, not just project management software and
    programmes.

    You can join the list by sending email to

    [e-mail]

    with the subject line of "subscribe".

proml
    Contact: [e-mail]

    Purpose: This mail list is for the discussion and plans of the
    Papyrus Racing Organization. The PRO Series is a gathering of
    individuals who've designed a competitive series using the
    Papyrus IndyCar racing simulation (the #1 race sim)!

    It can be used to discuss setups, tracks, speeds, performance, tuning,
    or any other aspect of the PRO series only.

    To subscribe to the list, send mail to:
        [e-mail]
    where the body of the message is:
    help
        subscribe <listname>

proof-users
    Contact: [e-mail] (Craig Latta)

    Purpose: To discuss the left-associative natural language parser
    'proof'.  To join, email [e-mail] with the
    subject line "add me".

pro-rkba-democrats
    Contact: [e-mail]

    Purpose: For liberals/Democrats who support the Second Amendment.

Python
    Contact: [e-mail] (Guido van Rossum)

    Purpose: The list is intended for discussion of and questions
    about all aspects of design and use of the Python programming
    language.  This is an object-oriented, interpreted, extensible
    programming language.  The source of the latest Python
    release is always available by anonymous ftp from ftp.cwi.nl,
    in directory /pub/python.  To subscribe, send e-mail to
    [e-mail]; put your name and Internet email
    address in the body.  The list is not moderated.

qn
    Contact: [e-mail] (Roger Klorese)

    Purpose: a mailing list for Queer Nation activists and for all
    interested in Queer Nation, an activist group devoted to
    furthering gay rights.  The purpose of qn is to network among
    various Queer Nation chapters, discussion actions and tactics, and
    for general discussion of how to bring about Queer Liberation.

qnx2
qnx4
    Contact: [e-mail] (Martin Zimmerman)

    Purpose: To discuss all aspects of the QNX realtime operating
    systems.  There are seperate discussion lists for 2.15/2.20 and
    the 4.x POSIX versions.

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QuadraVerb
    Contact: [e-mail] (Bob Page)

    Purpose: Discussion about the Alesis QuadraVerb family of audio
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Quanta
    Contact:  [e-mail]

    Purpose: Quanta is an electronically distributed magazine of
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quattro
    Contact: [e-mail] (David Tahajian)

    Purpose: To disuss Audi cars, and especially the AWD quattro
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Quebec Nordiques
    Contact: [e-mail] (Danny J. Sohier)

    Purpose: This internet mailing list will discuss topics concerning
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Queen Mail Service
    Contact: [e-mail] (Kathryn L. Madison)

    Purpose: Discussion about the rock group Queen.

queer-parents
    Contact: [e-mail] (Dorsie Hathaway)

    Purpose: A discussion list for lesbian, gay, or bi moms, dads,
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racefab
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    Purpose: To discuss racing fabrication and engineering.  Suitable
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Racer Records
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    Purpose: Distribution of information about Racer Records artists
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radioprep
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    Purpose: The radioprep mailing list is for working commercial
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Raiders
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The Rainbow Connection
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    Purpose: A support group for people in LDR's (Long Distance
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Ravenloft
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    Purpose: Discussion of Gothic Horror with respect to the Ravenloft
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rc
    Contact: [e-mail] (Chris Siebenmann)

    Purpose: Discussion of the rc shell.  Rc is a shell designed by
    Tom Duff to replace the venerable Bourne shell in Plan 9.  It
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    mostly less idiosyncratic syntax.  Most of the discussion on the
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RC_WORLD
    Contact: [e-mail]

    Purpose: Hosted by Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis, IN,
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Reaching-From-Nowhere
    Contact: [e-mail] (Michael K Curry)

    Purpose: Information and discussion about the music of singer/songwriter
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reader
    Contact: [e-mail] (Alex Khalil)

    Purpose: For the support of Arabic script (Arabic, Farsi,
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Really-Deep-Thoughts
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    Purpose: Information and discussion on Tori Amos, her music,
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recovery
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    Purpose: recovery is intended as a forum and support group for
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REDWING
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    Purpose: To discuss and exchange information regarding The Detroit
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reed-bay
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    Purpose: Reed College alumni mailing list.

REGAYN
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    Purpose: A mail group to serve as a contact point for discussions,
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rend386
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    Purpose: Discussion by and for users of the REND386 software package
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Rendance
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    Purpose: RENDANCE is for discussion of Renaissance dance.  The
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reuse
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    Purpose: This list is a bidirectional mailing list for those people
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reusewg
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rockhounds
    Contact: [e-mail] (Tom Corson)

    Purpose: To exchange ideas, collecting sites, tips, and other
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Rocky Horror
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    Purpose: To distribute news and creative material concerning the
    film: "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", the stage shows, or anything
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RokPress
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RoleMaster Mailing List
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    Purpose: A discussion for GMs and players of ICE's RoleMaster and
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Role Modeling
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    Purpose: The Role Modeling mailing list is concerned with the
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romanians
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    Purpose: Mailing list for discussion, news, and information in the
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ROOTS-L
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    Purpose: ROOTS-L is a discussion list where those who have interest
    in Genealogy may communicate via Email messages in hopes of finding
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Rotlist (moderated)
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    Purpose: Mailing List mainly for Rotary and Rotaract, hosted by the
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Roxette
    Contact: [e-mail] (Martin Schoenhacker)

    Purpose: All about the Swedish band Roxette.  It is a mail reflector,
    not a list server.  There is an on-line discography available, and
    a Digest version of the list may be requested.

RSI Network Newsletter
    Contact: [e-mail] (Craig O'Donnell)

    Purpose: information for anyone suffering from a keyboard-related
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    Purpose: Discussion of Richard Thompson's music and related
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R.U.N. (Raving Up North - Eastern Canada)
    Contact: [e-mail] (Francois Dion)

    Purpose: Raving Up North is an e-zine covering the rave scene in all
    covers all of Eastern Canada, including the Maritime Provinces.  The
    list is distributed as an e-zine only.  Archives and related files
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RuneQuest
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    Purpose: The RuneQuest Daily is a daily bulletin with discussion on
    the RuneQuest role-playing game and the fantasy world of Glorantha.
    RuneQuest is a trademark of Avalon Hill, Glorantha is the creation of
    Greg Stafford.

    Messages are queued daily, and sent out in neat packets of up to 25k,
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rush
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    Purpose: Fans of the Canadian rock group Rush discuss things
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RVAA (Rift Valley Acadmey Alumni)
    Contact: [e-mail] (Nathaniel Hekman)

    Purpose: Started in the fall of 1993, RVAA is a mailing list for
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RX7Net Email Club
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    Purpose: The RX7Net is a email list of members that own Mazda RX7's
    or who are interested in gaining technical or general information
    about RX7's.  You do not need to own a RX7 to join the list, just a
    love for the only rotary powered sports car in the world.  The RX7Net
    contains many knowledgable people who know many technical and
    historical information on the three generations of RX7's.
    The RX7Net currently has 190 members.