Dictionary

listserv en · NOUN

Etymology

Clipping of listserver.

Meanings

1. (Internet) A type of electronic mailing list, allowing for distribution of email to many subscribers.
   • [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 Fall of Bitcoin”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Jan 2025:
   • 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. 2009 January 29, Jennifer Medina, “Backers of Mayoral School Control Face Resistance”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2021:
   • 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 structural inequality […] 2006, Mary E. Hawkesworth, Globalization and Feminist Activism, page 130:
   • Last month, the Forward reported, a former student at Mechon Hadar—a co-ed egalitarian yeshiva in New York—emailed the school's listserv with a plea for the institution to cut ties with [Leslie] Wexner in light of the unspooling allegations against [Jeffrey] Epstein. 2019 August 7, Marissa Brostoff, Noah Kulwin, “The Right Kind of Continuity”, in Jewish Currents:

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mailbase