Listserv

Definitions

A type of electronic mailing list, allowing for distribution of email to many subscribers.

Internet

Equivalents

Examples

“At subregional, regional, and global conferences, as well as through websites, listservs, cyberjournals, newsletters, and public reports and books, feminists from the South have⟳ articulated strategies to break⟳ down structural inequality […]”

“Rather than producing flashy television spots, it has placed simple ads on Web sites of news organizations and urbanbaby.com, and tried to spread⟳ its positions by posting on education and community listservs and blogs.”

“[A] man named Satoshi Nakamoto posted a research⟳ paper to an obscure cryptography listserv describing his design⟳ for a new digital currency that he called bitcoin.”

“Last⟳ month, the Forward⟳ reported, a former student at Mechon Hadar—a co-ed egalitarian yeshiva in New York—emailed the school's listserv with a plea for the institution to cut⟳ ties with [Leslie] Wexner in light⟳ of the unspooling allegations against [Jeffrey] Epstein.”

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