AOL To Discontinue LISTSERV

Posted by Soulskill on Friday November 4, 2011 @12:55AM from the yes-aol-still-exists dept.

alphadogg writes "On December 1, AOL will shut down its free LISTSERV-based mailing-list hosting operations, the company has told mailing list administrators. 'If your list is still actively used, please make arrangements to find another service prior to the shutdown date and notify your list members of the transition details,' an email notice sent out by AOL stated. At the peak of the service's popularity in the late 1990s, AOL was the third-largest provider of mailing lists, serving more than a million users."

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Re:This is huge news! by nospam007 · 2011-11-04 01:02 · Score: 5, Funny

For you young whippersnappers, before you were born, listserv was/is like Twitter, just without any size limits.
You just send an email to a server sign up^h^h^h^h^h^h^h follow someone or unfollow.
This doesn't affect me in the slightest by Anonymous Coward · 2011-11-04 01:14 · Score: 5, Funny

I moved all my stuff to Compuserve last year.
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