ICOM
International Council of Museums page with lists for museums.

PLANNEDGIVING
Yahoo Groups open list for discussion of gift planning topics.

Prospect-DMM
For development professionals involved or interested in data mining and modeling, particularly as such concepts may be applied to major gifts. Discussions   include, but are not limited to, areas such as data preparation and understanding, model design and implementation, and measuring the results of a predictive model.

Prospect-Research UK
Yahoo group open to all researchers in development and fundraising but focused on those working in the United Kingdom. Good place to post specific research questions on UK resources and related aspects of prospect research.

PRSPCT-L
An electronic mail list provided as a forum for discussion of prospect research issues. In fact, the number one place to discuss all aspects of prospect research. Highly active list with large subscription base.

RECMGMT-L
Records management program listserv. Very active with a lot of valuable information about all aspects of records management.

TRE_Users
Yahoo Groups discussion of Blackbaud's Raisers Edge fundraising software. Many technical issues and questions can be resolved by a post to this list. Will occasionally have some advancement services and operations related questions.

UWEBD
For college and university webmasters. Good discussions of many aspects of the Internet and web sites. Very active list with many subscribers. Useful to monitor to help understand new technology developments, strategies, and links to web sites where these are used. Uwebd blog. Uwebd web site. Ning uwebd site.

From this site: Email Subscriptions Sign up for email newsletters to areas of topical interest. Like Minded Links to sites with similar or related information or  resources generally related to development and advancement.

Other General Resources:   CataList      List of listservs.   Educational Listservs      Links to education related listservs.   Tile.net      Reference guide to Internet      discussions and email lists.

A list's usefulness is directly tied to the quality of its members' participation.

The following guidelines, which were first taken from the second chapter of INTERNET: Mailing Lists (SRI International, 1993) and modified for inclusions and instructions by listserv managers, should help you make your participation meaningful and embarrassment-free.

Most listservs are run by moderators who may also have restrictions on postings or the type of materials that can be referenced such as participation by vendors. It is important to also review the polices of nay particular list before posting comments.

• Before sending a message to the list, make sure that the content is appropriate and that it is related to the purpose of the listserv.
   
• Many routine questions have been posed in the history of the list, so don't hesitate to search the archives by key word or topic for some ideas first if the listserv has archives or messages in a digest format.
   
• It's also prudent to consider what you're posting and whether it is appropriate to be available in the archives. For example, if you send a job description to the list, you wish to remove institution specific references since the job description will be send to everyone subscribed to the list and will also be available in the archives for future reference.
   
• When replying to a message that has been sent to the list, consider whether your reply should be sent to the person who sent the original message, or to the entire list.
  
  This is especially true if you are unhappy with what some user said.
  
  In most cases it is much better to send her/him mail directly; not to the entire list.
  
  Don't post a "send to me too" message since many thousands of subscribers may end up having to read your message.
   
• The "Subject" field of your mail message should give a reasonable summary of the contents of the message. This helps list members to sort and file mail messages. If, during the course of a discussion, you change the original focus of the discussion, change the "Subject" line as well. An appropriate way of doing so is to reference the old subject in the new subject as follows: Subject: DataTimes (was: Online Services).
   
• When you reply to a mail message summarize it if appropriate, and attribute it to its author. If your mail program allows you to include the old message in your reply consider using that facility, but be sure to remove parts of the old message that are irrelevant.
   
• Related to the above, if you receive a Digest version of the list and wish to reply to one of the messages contained therein, please change the Digest subject line to be the same as the message you are responding to, and delete all of the messages in the Digest with the exception of the one you are addressing.
   
• When asking a question, gather the replies and post a summary to the list (especially of messages not sent via the list).
   
• Always attach your signature (name and e-mail address) to the end of your posts. There are a whole host of mail clients and no two display the headers in the same way. On the other hand, long signatures are definitely frowned upon (considering that some folks have to pay $$$ to retrieve these messages). Three to Six lines is generally appropriate.
   
• In preparing a message, be aware that people will be reading your post on many different hardware platforms (DOS, Mac, Unix, etc...) and software programs. Cute pictures, and long lines which look fine on your system may be unrecognizable on someone else's system.
   
• When going on vacation or an extended absence, either unsubscribe from the list, change your mail setting to "no mail" or Digest, or be careful to set auto-replies to send only one reply to the list.

Your messages will be the most readable if you keep these things in mind while you are composing them:

• Keep your lines under 80 characters and under 72 if possible. (most editors have a fill or format mode that will do this for you automatically)
   
• Line (or right, or full) justified text is almost always harder to read than leaving ragged right margins; do not justify your messages.
   
• Most special control characters and formatting, will not work on many systems. In fact, the space character is about the only one you can be sure will work consistently. Even tabs aren't always the same from machine to machine, and should be avoided. Many mail clients will re-map control characters.
   
• Pictures and diagrams should not use imbedded tabs.
   
• Submissions in a single case (all upper or all lower) are very difficult to read.

Addendum

• With the improvement in search engines, think carefully about certain questions before sending them to the listserv.
  
  For example, "Can you send me some campaign web site links?" can be better addressed by submitting campaign web sites or a similar term into a search engine. You'll usually get a lot better and faster response and can begin your investigation in this way.
  
  Once you're further along, post a more refined question to the listserv targeting in on the expertise you need.