Date: 25 Nov 1996 18:16:19 -0500 From: newgroups-request@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups,news.announce.newgroups,bit.admin,news.answers Subject: Mailing Lists Available in Usenet Archive-name: mail/news-gateways/part1 Last-change: 20 Nov 1996 by newgroups-request@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence) This article documents known gateways between public mailing lists and network newsgroups in the seven Usenet hierarchies and other worldwide alternative hierarchies. Not every newsgroup is available via a standard mail gateway. Gateways exist in several forms. They can be fully bi-directional between the list and the group, one way from the list to the group, or only partially passed from the group to the list and back, with the list moderator selecting articles which are appropriate. Lists can also be packaged as digests --- multiple messages bound in a single collection --- and possibly appear as such in the corresponding group. Traffic on mailing lists whose incoming traffic from the corresponding newsgroup is unrestricted is often very unlike that which comes to lists that solely exist in the mail realm. This is because of differences of the two overall environments and how they are used by people. Both list members and group participants should be wary of it and try to be sympathetic with the other side, but this is often a point missed by the group users who don't even realise their articles are being redistributed via an automatic gateway. Gateways that have moderators which review submissions are listed in a companion posting, "List of Moderators for Usenet". As noted in that article, most modern news system software supports automatic submission to the moderator of articles posted to the group. If that mechanism does not work at your site you will have to directly mail your article to the submission address. Mailing lists also have administrative contact addresses for reaching the people who run them. These addresses are meant to be used for issues pertaining to the operation of the lists, rather than for messages which are meant to be published in the list. You can subscribe or unsubscribe most mailing lists by writing to an address formed by putting "-request" after the list name but before the "@"; eg, to subscribe to apl-l@unb.ca, send a request to apl-l-request@unb.ca. Some lists do not support the -request convention, but support automated subscription. If the -request address fails, try mailing "subscribe LISTNAME YOURNAME" in the body of a message to "listserv" at the site. That is, to subscribe to swl-l@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu, send "subscribe swl-l YOURNAME" to listserv@cuvmb.columbia.edu, substituting your full name in for YOURNAME. Also note that moderators of Usenet groups may not be in charge of the corresponding mailing list or gateway. For example, the moderator of comp.sources.unix does not have anything to do with the unix-sources mailing list; matters concerning the mailing list should be addressed to unix-sources-request@arl.army.mil. Nearly all of the groups in the bionet network news hierarchy are available via mail. The current "BIOSCI Electronic Newsgroup Network Information Sheet", which describes how to access the forums, is available by sending a message to biosci@net.bio.net. Anything sent to that address is answered automatically with the information sheet. Status key: < one way gateway from the maillist to the newsgroup > one way gateway from the newsgroup to the maillist M moderated newsgroup D both the maillist and the newsgroup appear in digest form d just the maillist appears in digest form * possibly broken gateway; information on its status would be appreciated The absence of a "<" means the mailing list is bi-directional. Newsgroup Mailing list Status ------------ ------------- ------ alt.aquaria.killies killies@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us alt.bigfoot.research bigfoot@teleport.com M alt.cd-rom cdrom-l@uccvma.ucop.edu alt.clearing.technology clear-l@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca alt.fan.tom-robbins magic-l@american.edu alt.health.cfids-action cfids-l@american.edu M alt.med.cfs cfs-l@list.nih.gov M alt.med.cfs.chat cfs-chat@sjuvm.stjohns.edu M alt.med.cfs.info cfs-gate@sjuvm.stjohns.edu M alt.med.cfs.open cfs-open@sjuvm.stjohns.edu M alt.med.fibromyalgia fibrom-l@mitvma.mit.edu alt.music.amy-grant art@ipc.uni-tuebingen.de alt.music.blues-traveler blues-traveler@cs.umd.edu alt.music.filk filk-l@bdragon.shore.net d alt.music.jewish jewish-music@israel.nysernet.org alt.paranet.abduct paranet@psuvm.psu.edu alt.paranet.ufo altufo-l@psuvm.psu.edu alt.religion.scientology lrh-l@cornell.edu alt.rock-n-roll.stones undercover@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca < alt.sports.college.ohio-state ohio-state@world.std.com alt.support.hemophilia hemofact@sjuvm.stjohns.edu alt.support.mult-sclerosis mslist-l@techunix.technion.ac.il alt.support.post-polio polio@sjuvm.stjohns.edu alt.sys.intergraph alt-sys-intergraph@ingr.ingr.com alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000 gateway2000-request@sei.cmu.edu alt.tv.vr5 vr5@server.microserve.net soc.genealogy.methods genmtd-l@mail.eworld.com M soc.genealogy.misc genmsc-l@mail.eworld.com soc.genealogy.slavic gen-slavic@mail.eworld.com soc.genealogy.surnames gennam-l@mail.eworld.com M soc.genealogy.uk+ireland genuki-l@mail.eworld.com soc.org.nonprofit usnonprofit-l@rain.org soc.politics.arms-d arms-l@buacca.bu.edu M soc.religion.bahai bahai-faith@oneworld.wa.com M soc.religion.christian.bible-study bible-study@spss.com M soc.support.youth.gay-lesbian-bi glb-youth-l@netcom.com talk.politics.soviet tps-l@indycms.iupui.edu vmsnet.infosystems.gopher vmsgopher-l@trln.lib.unc.edu vmsnet.internals macro32@wkuvx1.wku.edu vmsnet.mail.mx mx-list@wkuvx1.wku.edu vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks lanworks@miamiu.acs.muohio.edu vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.cmu-tek cmu-openvms-ip@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet info-multinet@tgv.com vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.wintcp wintcp-l@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu vmsnet.tpu info-tpu@shsu.edu vmsnet.uucp vmsnet@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu This article is based on a list which Gene Spafford maintained until May 1993. Jim McIntosh is a major contributor, and the maintainer of most gateways between listserv lists and network news. Please send additions and changes to David C Lawrence .