JISCmail is a service for academic mailing lists and while many of them might not be
widely known by the public most of the lists are open to anyone with an email address.
In fact, many of them have searchable archives so it's not essential to join.
The JISCmail service hosts lists covering pretty much every conceivable academic
discipline and there are quite a few that would be of interest to many people here.
The full browsable list can be searched alphabetically or by themed topic at:
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/
A couple of examples:
British Archaeology - BRITARCH
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/BRITARCH.html
(everything archaeology at: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/mailinglists/category/V6.htm)
Archaeobotany
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/ARCHAEOBOTANY.html
Yahoo Groups are more widely known and also have plenty of relevant groups:
There are 16 listed for bushcraft
http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=bushcraft
Quite a few for ethnobotany although the first few hits seem to be more about getting
baked on plant products and wigging out slightly
http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=ethnobotany
The group "Knappers R Us" has 902 fans of flint:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Knappers-R-Us/
There are other places where lists live such as:
Topica: http://lists.topica.com/
Google groups: http://groups.google.co.uk/
widely known by the public most of the lists are open to anyone with an email address.
In fact, many of them have searchable archives so it's not essential to join.
The JISCmail service hosts lists covering pretty much every conceivable academic
discipline and there are quite a few that would be of interest to many people here.
The full browsable list can be searched alphabetically or by themed topic at:
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/
A couple of examples:
British Archaeology - BRITARCH
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/BRITARCH.html
(everything archaeology at: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/mailinglists/category/V6.htm)
Archaeobotany
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/ARCHAEOBOTANY.html
Yahoo Groups are more widely known and also have plenty of relevant groups:
There are 16 listed for bushcraft
http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=bushcraft
Quite a few for ethnobotany although the first few hits seem to be more about getting
baked on plant products and wigging out slightly
http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=ethnobotany
The group "Knappers R Us" has 902 fans of flint:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Knappers-R-Us/
There are other places where lists live such as:
Topica: http://lists.topica.com/
Google groups: http://groups.google.co.uk/
