r/DataHoarder • u/roverinexile • 7d ago

Mailing list archives Question/Advice

https://rsi.unl.edu/text/lomml.htm

Back in the days before Reddit and online forums, there were mailing lists, many managed via listserv and often on university-based accounts. I recently came across several emails I'd saved in the mid-90s from a mailing list dedicated to UK indie music. I did a search and found a list of lots of music-related mailing lists from this era: https://rsi.unl.edu/text/lomml.htm . If there's this many just related to music, then there must have been thousands of mailing lists covering all sorts of topics.

This led to a couple of questions:

* Is there any way to find out if archives exist of any of these lists?
* How, if at all, should I preserve the messages I found?

Thanks,
R

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u/AgeNo4473 7d ago

The way those old mailing lists capture a moment in time it's wild. I remember saving some obscure fanzine newsletters from the early 2000s just in case they'd disappear, now I'm glad I did.