What other fannish newsgroups and mailing lists are there?
A. uk.people.sf-fans is a newgroup focusing on science fiction and fandom in the UK. upsf is a good place for announcements and discussion of club and pub meetings in the UK. As of August, 1999, the newer upsf group has far less message traffic than rassef. rec.music.filk is for discussion of filk music. There’s also a whole rec.arts.comics.* hierarchy. Timebinders is a mailing list for people interested in the history of sf fandom, but also carries a fair amount of other fannish chat. To subscribe to the Timebinders mailing list, send mail to LISTSERV@SFLOVERS.ORG with the command SUB TIMEBINDERS YOURFIRSTNAME YOURLASTNAME SMOFS is a low-traffic list that deals with convention-running. To get on smofs, send mail to smofs-request@sflovers.org. However, you should not join this list unless you have some experience with or interest in con-running. It’s not a general-purpose mailing list. The newsgroup alt.fandom.cons is deprecated, along with the rest of the alt.fandom.* groups, since re
