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TILE.NET Lists
TILE.NET (tile.net/lists) is not a message repository. Instead it's an online
listing of newsletters and mailing lists. It's also one of the oldest online
resources for this kind of thing, so you know it's extensive.
You have the choice of browsing by name, description, and domain, which I
don't recommend unless you have lots and lots of free time. A search engine
also allows you to search between lists and newsgroups. You probably got
your ill of newsgroup searching at Google Groups, so stick to lists. Make
your searches single-word— ethics , medicine , woodworking , Google .
he big drawback to TILE.NET is that a lot of the lists have no descriptive
information, and you can't get a sense from the title of some of the lists what
exactly they are. However, for when you want to make sure you cover every
available inch, and want to set up traps for every available resource, you
don't want to miss TILE. here are too many listings here.
tip
There are lists of categorized information as well as general mail-
ing lists. if you're looking for academic information try JisCmail 
(jiscmail.ac.uk), which contains information on mailing lists for 
academic communities, mostly in the uK. 
L-Soft List Catalog
Sometimes you'll hear someone refer to a mailing list as a LISTSERV.
hat's not really a correct usage. LISTSERV is a certain type of mailing list
sotware and it's a trademark. A mailing list may run on LISTSERV, but a
mailing list is not a LISTSERV. (It's like saying, “Give me a Kleenex,” when
you're using a generic brand of tissue.)
You might realize however that mailing list sotware would have to be pretty
darn popular to become a common usage noun. And you're right. he L-
Sot List Catalog (lsot.com/lists/listref.html) contains information on over
58,000 mailing lists—and those are just the publicly available ones!
here are some unusual ways to ind lists here ( Figure 9.14 )—you can
search by country and search by lists that have over 1,000 or over 10,000
subscribers. You can also do a keyword search for lists.
 
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