Listserv

American  

[list-surv] / ˈlɪstˌsɜrv /

Trademark.

1. the brand name for one of the most common internet list servers.

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noun

1. any similar software program.

2. an email discussion group; an online mailing list.

listserv British  

/ ˈlɪstˌsɜːv /

noun

1. a service on the internet that provides an electronic mailing to subscribers with similar interests

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Etymology

Origin of Listserv

First recorded in 1985–90 Listserv ( for def. 1 )

Example Sentences

“It was a parade of letters that were being posted on a directors’ listserv, because every state has a humanities council, and so it seemed like they were going alphabetically,” Noguchi said.

From Los Angeles Times

Ten years ago, she had learned about a “sort of famous” listserv in Seattle and joined it looking for a nanny share after she’d had her daughter.

From Slate

Reges then wrote to an Allen School listserv saying he would continue putting his parody land acknowledgment in syllabi.

From Seattle Times

Then, on the evening of 27 February, while McCann was still in the tiny hospital in Corowa, Thorburn read a message posted a day earlier on Ozbug, a listserv of Australian infectious disease physicians.

From Science Magazine

On a Jewish social justice listserv, Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, an Israeli-born New Yorker, called Shimunov’s video “an abomination.”

From Seattle Times