listserv

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

Noun

  1. A type of electronic mailing list, allowing for distribution of email to many subscribers.
    • 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...
    • 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. - 2011 November 23, Benjamin Wallace, “The Rise and...

    Synonyms: mailbase

Origin

Clipping of listserver.

Forms

listservs listserve