Find Mailing Lists

• The best tools
• Other ways to find lists
• Les listes de discussion en Francais
• European lists
• Help with mailing lists - how to subscribe and unsubscribe

Mailing lists or Listservs are discussion groups or sometimes simply daily or weekly newsletters. Unlike newsgroups or chat groups, you have to subscribe to these mailing lists -- they're free -- and you get the messages in your e-mail. This generally makes the discussions on these lists more professional and serious than Newsgroups. They are great places to find the facts or the people you need for your story

You can find out more by reading JNet's  article on Mailing Lists

The best list searchers :

• Catalist             A list you can search by country or subject  
  
• Kovacs' Scholarly Lists              A very useful index of academic and scholarly mailing lists -- excellent for finding experts in a topic you are covering. Searchable by subject and name
• Public Available Mailing Lists (PAML)             A good list of lists. You can search by keyword or by subject
  

Les listes en Francais :

• Francopholiste    L' annuaire des listes de diffusions francophones
• J-liste      La liste de discussion jliste est consacre des dbats et changes sur le thme "le journalisme et la presse l'heure d'Internet".
• Guide de Mario Grenier
• Dolist annuaire
  

Other list search engines:

• Tile.net  
• Topica This revised page also gives you tips on how to subscribe and describes the different kinds of lists .
• Homepage for Listservs              Find the listserv you want for your story by topic or country -- not a complete list, but a good start

European mailing lists:

• Netherlands lists (in Dutch)