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- Subject: Directories of Listserv Lists (fwd)
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- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 17:58:29 EDT
- From: MICHAEL STRANGELOVE <441495@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA>
- To: Multiple recipients of list HELP-NET <HELP-NET@templevm.bitnet>
- Subject: Directories of Listserv Lists
-
- I am trying to compile a listing of all major directories of Online
- Discussion Groups. The following indicates what I have found thus far.
- I know I am missing some other directories and would appreciate info on
- these.
-
- Also, is there a directory of USENET newsgroups that indicates who
- moderates each newsgroup and what archives each newsgroup may have?
-
- Thank you kindly,
- Michael Strangelove
- 441495@acadvm1.uottawa.ca
- _______________________________________________________________________
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- Directories of Listserv Lists
-
- The following is information regarding a variety of Listserv list
- directories presently available on the Net. These directories will
- help you find online discussion groups for personal interest or as
- research forums.
-
- * List of Lists
-
- This directory contains brief information on all of the discussion
- groups on BITNET. To retrieve this document, send the command to
- any Listserv
-
- LIST GLOBAL
-
- On Internet, send the above command as a mail message to
- Listserv@vm1.nodak.edu. A 3000 line file named Listserv Lists will
- be returned.
-
-
- * SRI Interest-Groups Directory
-
- The SRI network service maintains an extensive directory of list
- descriptions. To retrieve this directory, send the following
- command to mail-server@nisc.sri.com
-
- SEND NETINFO/INTEREST-GROUPS
-
- The above command will return twenty-six files, each approximately
- 800 lines long. This document is also available via FTP as
- interest-groups.Z from the node ftp.nisc.sri.com in the directory
- /netinfo/.
-
-
- * Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences
-
- The best organized directory of academic discussion groups is Diane
- Kovacs' Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences. This
- directory contains information on over 800 online conferences of
- interest to scholars.
-
- > Retrieval Information
-
- The latest revision of the Directory of Scholarly Electronic
- Conferences is available via e-mail to Listserv@kentvm and via
- anonymous FTP to the node ksuvxa.kent.edu in the directory
- /library/.
-
- The files available are:
-
- ACADLIST README (explanatory notes for the Directory with an index)
- ACADLIST FILE1 (Anthropology--Education)
- ACADLIST FILE2 (Futurology--Latin American Studies)
- ACADLIST FILE3 (Library and Information Science--Music)
- ACADLIST FILE4 (Political Science--Writing)
- ACADLIST FILE5 (biological sciences)
- ACADLIST FILE6 (physical sciences)
- ACADLIST FILE7 (business and general academia)
-
- ACADWHOL HQX
- (binhexed self-decompressing Macintosh M.S. Word 4.0 document of
- all 6 directories)
- ACADSOCH HQX
- (binhexed self-decompressing Macintosh M.S. Word 4.0 document of
- the Social Science and Humanities files 1-3)
- ACADLIST CHANGES
- (all the major additions, deletions and alterations)
-
- > For more information, contact:
-
- Diane K. Kovacs
- Kent State University Libraries
- Kent, Ohio 44242
- Phone: (216)672-3045
- DKOVACS@kentvm or LIBRK329@kentvms
- DKOVACS@kentvm.kent.edu or LIBRK329@ksuvxa.kent.edu
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