#mailing lists

[adobe-outdesign]

This may be the greatest thing I've ever read.

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[yahoo-geddon]

Fandom History: Persian/Farsi Speakers Needed

In late 2019, TV, movie, anime, gaming, celebrity, music, and book fans assembled to save Yahoo Groups after Verizon decided to shut down the mailing list service. Approximately 300,000 fandom groups have been saved. The Yahoo Gedden project is working on identifying the fandoms of Persian language mailing lists and can use your help. We need people who can read Persian/Farsi natively* right now to help us identify the Unknown groups. You can work at your own pace and it is a low time commitment. Work is done on Discord, just reading the group description and a few messages and summarizing the messages in English, maybe answering a question of clarification ("is it talking about X or Y?"). No software or other tools needed besides your phone/computer and access to Discord.

Discord invite: https://discord.gg/UyJdffhw2b

*We're not certain if these mailing lists are using a specific dialect or standard modern Farsi

[abalonetea]

thoughts on author mailing lists and what you like them to contain? for research!

[timespanner]

Do you know how to subscribe to 1) John's and/or 2) Tall Tales' mailing list? Internet searches in the relevant places returned nothing.

You may subscribe to John Finnemore's mailing list here (relevant post from his blog). As for Tall Tales, I reckon your best bet would be to email them at talltalesnight at gmail and enquire directly (and don't forget to check their website here).

[heckyeahponyscans]

I wonder if younger people know what mailing lists are? 

Basically, they were giant “Reply All” chains.  Except you could put in a single email address and it would send your message to everyone on the list.

The Ponypeople Mailing List was HUGE back in the day, before the shift to message boards.

[drmonkeysetroscans]

And more!

[rahirah]

Yahoo Groups Is Going Away

Hey, in case you haven't heard, Yahoo Groups is deleting all content as of December 14. So if there are any old groups you would like to save content for, be sure to do it before then. There is a program called PG Offline which makes it easy to download and save messages and export them to other formats if desired. (I've tested it on groups I'm still subscribed to and it seems to work fine.)

If anyone is still subscribed to BTVS-TabulaRasa or any of the other old Buffy groups, I'd be very grateful if you'd be willing to download them for me -- I unsubscribed back when the signal-to-noise ratio got too low, and now, of course, the mods are all long gone, so I can't resubscribe for the purpose of downloading them. :P

[everbecomesreal]

Hi everyone, my social distancing hobbies include signing up to the mailing list to clothes shops I can’t afford and sticking my head firmly in the sand as my unread emails sneak above 20,000.