This is my meta list of mailing lists that I monitor and keep up with. Due to some privacy issues associated with individual groups, some are omitted from this list -- maybe four or five overall. And yes, the dx on incoming mail is greater than the dx on gmail's increasing storage. How many get to say that? The deb mailing lists were subscribed to on 2008-04-21. Internet Society lists added 2008-05-24.

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<li><a href="http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/2themoon">2themoon</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.agiri.org/email">agi</a> - artificial general intelligence discussion</li>
<li><a href="http://lists.idyll.org/listinfo/alife-announce">alife-announce</a></li>
<li><a href="http://exrocketry.net/mailman/listinfo/arocket">arocket</a> -> Has some awesome people contributing, like John Carmack, Henry Spencer, Masten, Ian Kluft (the same one who contributed the code to Slashdot a decade ago), etc.</li>
<li><a href="http://asi.org">artemis-list@asi.org</a> - for <a href="http://asi.org/">the Artemis Society</a> (spacetech)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.austinev.org/mailman/listinfo/ausev">AusEV</a> - Austin electrical vehicles</li>
<li><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Austin_Intelligentsia/">Austin_Intelligentsia</a></li>
<li><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AustinMetalworkingEtc">AustinMetalworkingEtc</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ras.ece.utexas.edu/mailman/listinfo/ras">UT Austin - Robotics Automation Society</a></li>
<li><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/barcamp?hl=en">BarCamp</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bbb">Bioinformatics</a> - strikingly low volume?</li>
<li><a href="http://biobricks.org/mailman/listinfo/sb4.0_biobricks.org">SB4.0</a> (BioBricks)</li>
<li><a href="http://biobricks.org/mailman/listinfo/standards_biobricks.org">Biobrick standards</a> - some comp sci guys trying to wrap their head around what biobricks can be used for (fail)</li>
<li><a href="http://biobricks.org/mailman/listinfo/volunteers_biobricks.org">BBF volunteers</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters">Bioclusters</a></li>
<li><a href="https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor">Bioconductor</a></li>
<li><a href="http://postbiota.org/mailman/listinfo/biomed">Biomed</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/bioperl-l">Bioperl</a></li>
<li><a href="https://utlists.utexas.edu/sympa/subscribe/biospeak">UT Austin - Speaking of Biology</a></li>
<li><a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss">blueobelisk-discuss</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/botnets">botnets</a></li>
<li><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canonizers">canonizers</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ccl.net/">comp-chem list</a> (crappy mailserver)</li>
<li><a href="http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/chminf-l.html">CHIMINF-L</a></li>
<li><a href="http://necsi.org/discuss/discuss.html">complexity-science</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.neuroinf.org/mailman/listinfo/comp-neuro">comp-neuro</a></li>
<li><a href="http://postbiota.org/mailman/listinfo/cryo">cryo</a></li>
<li><a href="http://cryonet.org/">cryonet</a></li>
<li><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/dataportability-public?hl=en">dataportability-public</a></li>
<li><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/dataportabilityactiontechnical?hl=en">dataportabilityactiontechnical</a></li>
<li><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/diybio?hl=en">diybio</a></li>
<li><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EGWorkgroup">EGWorkgroup</a> - for <a href="http://www.orionsarm.com/">Orion's Arm</a></li>
<li><a href="https://postit.csc.fi/sympa">elmer</a>?</li>
<li><a href="http://lists.erps.org/listinfo.cgi/erps-erps.org">erps</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat">extropy-chat</a> -> See <a href="http://extropy.org/">here</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extropy">Wp:extropy</a> and <a href="http://maxmore.com/">Max More</a> and <a href="http://natasha.cc/">Natasha Vita-More</a>. Foundation of transhumanism.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/department/webevent/utcs/events/cgi/eidshow.cgi?person=AntonioTorralba">UT Austin - Forum for AI</a></li>
<li><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/fds-smv?hl=en">fds-smv</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/ff3d-users">ff3d-users</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers">freebsd-hackers</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ann.jussieu.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freefempp">freefempp</a></li>
<li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/">gcc</a></li>
<li><a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gfs-devel">gfs-devel</a></li>
<li><a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gfs-users">gfs-users</a></li>
<li><a href="http://yahoogroups.com/">gingery_machines</a> -> Dave Gingery bootstrapped the industrial revolution in his own backyard with his bare hands.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh">gmsh</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/grg">GRG</a> - the Gerontology Research Group focuses on longevity, biology, neurodegenerative diseases, etc.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-developers">gromacs-developers</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users">gromacs-users</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/grub-dev">grub-dev</a></li>
<li><a href="http://heybryan.org/mailman/listinfo/hhs_math">hhs_math</a> for <a href="http://hayscisd.net/">Hays High School</a> -> Math club related announcements.</li>
<li><a href="http://yahoogroups.com/">hplus2</a></li>
<li><a href="http://heybryan.org/mailman/listinfo/hplusroadmap">hplusroadmap</a> for <a href="http://heybryan.org/mediawiki/index.php/Roadmap">the roadmap</a>. See also: <a href="http://heybryan.org/pipermail/hplusroadmap/">hplusroadmap archives</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://igem.org/">2008-interest@igem.org</a> -> iGEM is the Internationally Genetically Engeered Machines competition mostly organized around the Biobrick Foundation.</li>
<li><a href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVMdev</a> - an interesting, modular compiler that I came across.</li>
<li><a href="https://mail.enthought.com/mailman/listinfo/enthought-dev">mayavi2</a></li>
<li><a href="http://yahoogroups.com/">mea-users</a> -> For users interested in MEAs (<a href="http://heybryan.org/mediawiki/index.php/Brain_implants">microelectrode arrays</a>).</li>
<li><a href="http://heybryan.org/mailman/listinfo/megascale">megascale</a> - astroscale engineering, such as Dyson spheres, laser-stars, the Death Star, moonbrains, etc.</li>
<li><a href="http://lists.marketcetera.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m-etc-users">m-etc-users</a> - financial software</li>
<li><a href="http://yahoogroups.com/">MindBrain</a> - ignore</li>
<li>mini-lathe ??</li>
<li><a href="http://www.bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/molvis-list">molvis-list</a></li>
<li><a href="http://heybryan.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/namcub">namcub</a></li>
<li><a href="http://postbiota.org/mailman/listinfo/nano">nano</a>tech/news</li>
<li><a href="http://postbiota.org/mailman/listinfo/neuro">neuro</a>tech/news</li>
<li><a href="http://www.marshome.org/mailman/listinfo/nsg">Nanotech Study Group</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lucene.apache.org/">nutch-dev</a></li>
<li><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/opencog?hl=en">OpenCog</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.opencores.org/mailman/listinfo/cores">OpenCores</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.opencores.org/mailman/listinfo/openrisc">OpenRISC</a></li>
<li><a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-rtms-list">open-rtms-list</a> - closely related to OpenEEG.</li>
<li><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/openvirgle?hl=en">OpenVirgle</a> - see also <a href="http://openvirgle.net">OpenVirgle.net</a> and so on.</li>
<li><a href="http://yahoogroups.com/">orions_arm</a> - an awesome hard scifi worldbuilding group (you might have to ignore the wormhole stuff)</li>
<li><a href="http://osaerospace.com/mailman/listinfo/webdev_osaerospace.com">osaerospace-webdev</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/oww-discuss">oww-discuss</a> for <a href="http://openwetware.org/">OpenWetWare</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.mailman.srv.ualberta.ca/mailman/listinfo/patho-l">PATHO-L</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lists.cc.utexas.edu/">UT Austin - PHP</a> (mostly campus-hired programmers, oddly enough)</li>
<li><a href="http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist">piclist</a> <--- super high volume. Do not get behind.</li>
<li><a href="http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel">pidgin-devel</a> -> for the development of <a href="http://pidgin.im/">Pidgin</a>, the open source instant messenger.</li>
<li><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/railroading-on-the-moon-and-mars?hl=en">railroading-on-the-moon-and-mars</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lists.csl.sri.com/mailman/listinfo/risks">RISKS</a></li>
<li><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rocketry-austin">rocketry-austin</a></li>
<li><a href="http://pointless.net/mailman/listinfo/ronja">ronja</a> - diy internet connectivity</li>
<li><a href="https://utils.its.caltech.edu/mailman/listinfo/libsbml-discuss">libsbml-discuss</a> for <a href="http://sbml.org/">sys-bio markup lang</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/options/search-l">search-l</a> for wikiasearch</li>
<li><a href="http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/11983/=now">singularity</a></li>
<li><a href="http://sl4.org/">SL4</a></li>
<li>entire [Space] folder omitted - AmericaSpace, commercialspaceplace, howtobuildaspacehabitat, inside_ksc, luf-team, nss_seattle, NSS_Seattle_Announce, OuterSpaceDevelopment, return_to_the_moon, solarpowersatelliteplace, SpaceADG, space-architecture, spacechamberofcommerce, space_expedition, spaceprojects, spacesettlers, spacetethers, SpaceWork, ssi_list, ... </li>
<li><a href="http://rocketeers.com/mailman/listinfo/sugpro">SUGPRO</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lists.syntheticbiology.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss">synbio</a> - genetic regulatory networks, molecular circuits, molecular computers, amorphous computation, longevity, cellular simulation, etc. etc.</li>
<li><a href="http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/teamcringely_eng">teamcringely_eng</a></li>
<li><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/get-theinfo">get-theinfo</a></li>
<li><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/process-theinfo">process-theinfo</a></li>
<li><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/view-theinfo">view-theinfo</a></li>
<li><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/transboinc?hl=en">TransBOINC</a> -> Join some groups doing distributed computational simulations for transhumanist problem-spaces.</li>
<li><a href="http://transhumanism.meetup.com/79">Austin Transhumanism Meetup</a></li>
<li><a href="http://postbiota.org/mailman/listinfo/tt">transhumantech</a> - the most awesome list ever</li>
<li><a href="http://yahoogroups.com/">TWSAPI</a> - automated stock market trading stuff.</li>
<li><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/universalimmortalism">universalimmortalism</a> (<a href="http://universalimmortalism.com/">web</a>)</li>
<li><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/virgle?hl=en">virgle</a> - Google's going to Mars.</li>
<li>VMD-L on uiuc.edu</li>
<li><a href="http://www.vtk.org/mailman/listinfo/vtkusers">vtk-users</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.transhumanism.org/mailman/listinfo/wta-talk">wta-talk</a> for the <a href="http://transhumanism.org/">World Transhumanist Association</a></li>
<li><a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wxmozilla-devel">wxmozilla-devel</a></li>



<li>debian-announce</li>
<li>debian-firewall</li>
<li>debian-infrastructure-announce</li>
<li>debian-isp</li>
<li>debian-news</li>
<li>debian-security</li>
<li>debian-user</li>
<li>debian-beowulf</li>
<li>debian-ctte</li>
<li>debian-boot</li>
<li>debian-devel-announce</li>
<li>debian-devel</li>
<li>debian-dpkg</li>
<li>debian-ipv6</li>
<li>debian-kernel-maint</li>
<li>debian-mentors</li>
<li>debian-perl</li>
<li>debian-printing</li>
<li>debian-python</li>
<li>debian-qa</li>
<li>debian-science</li>
<li>debian-toolchain</li>
<li>debian-www</li>
<li>deity</li>
<li>debian-curiosa</li>
<li>debian-mirrors</li>
<li>debian-women</li>
<li><a href="http://lists.projectpolymath.org/listinfo.cgi/PolyList-projectpolymath.org">polylist</a> at <a href="http://projectpolymath.org/">Project Polymath</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://seds.org/mailman/listinfo/crowdsat">crowdsat</a> (for diy cubesats)</li>
<li><a href="http://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/isoc-members-discuss">ISOC-members-discuss</a> @ <a href="http://isoc.org/">Internet Society</a></li>
<li><a href="http://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/pubsoft">PubSoft</a> <br />Discussions on software as a public good. Free software and open source software applications on third world development and Internet access. Open standards for interfaces and communications. Use of open source and free software in public administration.</li>
<li><a href="http://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/isdf">Isdf</a></li>
<li><a href="http://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/ipnsig-discuss">Ipnsig -- Interplanetary Network Special Interest Group Discussion Group</a></li>
<li><a href="http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/texasneurosciencereview/">texasneurosciencereview</a> - <a href="http://studentorgs.utexas.edu/tnr/">TNR website</a></li>
<li><a href="http://gnuveau.net/mailman/listinfo/openmosix-dev">openmosix-dev</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lists.puremagic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/robotgroup">Austin robotgroup</a> (2008-06-25)</li>
<li><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HillCountryFreecycle/">HillCountryFreecycle</a> (2008-06-29)</li>
<li><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AustinFreecycle/">AustinFreeCycle</a> see also <a href="http://freecycle.org/">http://freecycle.org/</a></li>
<li>everybody@ellingtonlab.org</li>
<li>everybody-but@ellingtonlab.org</li>
<li>todo: linux kernel, perl mailing lists (tons), more GNU stuff, ... </li>
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