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  • noun Plural form of listserv.

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Examples

  • In mystery circles (at least in listservs and blogs), no one really talks much about Book Expo and ALA -- perhaps because they are trade events and not consumer-oriented conferences.

    More BEA 2007

  • One thing I’ve observed with mystery listservs is many of them degenerate into BSP.

    Good Tonic 2007

  • One thing I’ve observed with mystery listservs is many of them degenerate into BSP.

    March 2007 2007

  • E-mail groups called listservs have sprung up as support groups for parents who don't have the strong family and neighborhood networks their mothers and grandmothers might have had.

    Top Tech News 2010

  • But for companies in this brave new Community Relations 2.0 world, executives must know that these real-time communities differ from their online predecessors - such as listservs and message boards - in critical ways, namely:

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • But was also just as much classwork going on; students writing many papers, using library catalogs and databases, and taking online classes or classes that maintained some coursework online, such as listservs and message boards.

    LISNews - Comments 2008

  • But I’ve heard that membership as a whole is receding, and one of my colleagues conjectured that the prevalence of online communities such as listservs and forums are diminishing the value that professional groups once had.

    Open letter to all technical communicators out there 2007

  • Dori Smith is not spending all her time on listservs, however.

    Web Teacher › Two by Two: Ten Years in Tech 2010

  • But I quite agree with you about the effectiveness of listservs.

    D is for Dogme « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • In fact, the webheads and dogme groups are the two listservs I recommended in a presentation I did last week … oh well, scratch that!

    D is for Dogme « An A-Z of ELT 2010

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