Message-ID: <951209.145923.EST.3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 14:55:50 EST From: Elliott Parker <mailto:3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> Subject: Re: "Keeper of Listserv Groups" To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
On Fri, 8 Dec 1995 10:33:14 -0500 "L.N. Irwin" said: >On Thu, 7 Dec 1995 Hadley H. Jenner <mailto:MBEA@DANIEL.MAF.ORG> wrote:
>
>> (snip...)
>> I am very new at this so please excuse my ineptness if the
>> (snip...)
>> in land issues involving African pastoralists. More broadly,
>> I am interested in contacting listserv groups concerned with
>> community development or African development issues.
>
>As you are new to this process, you are probably not aware of the "LISTS
>GLOBAL" command that can be used with Listservs. Sending this message to a
>Listserv will instruct the Listserv to send you a list of all the
>discussion groups that it is aware of in the world.
>
>Remember to send this command to the Listserv, and not to the discussion
>group. Thus you could send the message "LISTS GLOBAL" to
mailto:>LISTSERV@AMERICAN.EDU (*** DO NOT send it to DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU !!!***). >Be prepared for some large responses, as there are thousands of
>discussion groups in the world. You could then perform a search for
>keywords such as AFRICA, DEVEL, etc.
>
Since the full list of Listserv lists is about 2 meg., it might be more convenient to combine the command to list global /search_string e. g. list global /africa Don't forget to send to Listserv (mailto:listserv@listserv.net will work if you don't know a close site), not DEVEL-L.
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