[Air-l] Query - How many mailing lists

[George]

Biggest I know about are
http://groups.yahoo.com/ (used to be egroups.com)
and
http://www.topica.com/
then there is
http://www.dgroups.org/
don't forget AOL has e-mail lists too..


On Sunday, February 1, 2004, at 08:21  PM, Jonathan Marshall wrote:

>
> I wonder if anyone could help me uncover the number of mailing lists
> there might be in the world?
>
> the most recent figures I've got are from April 1997 estimating the
> number of lists, from the Liszt directory, at 71,618.
>
> Liszt seems to have commercial since then - possibly being a spam
> site, and I can't find anything more recent.
>
> Obviously the total number of active lists is more interesting than
> the total number of lists, but i'll take anything at the moment :)
>
> Thanks
>
> jon
>
>
>
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