Listserv

Quick meaning: Listserv is a noun meaning (Internet) A type of electronic mailing list, allowing for distribution of email to many subscribers.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

[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.

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.

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 […]

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.

Word Forms

• listservs
• listserve

Synonyms for listserv

Depending on context, synonyms include mailbase.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include server, list, busboy, waiter, listserve, listserver.

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