Someone out there on Usenet is recommending a website to someone else right now. If you'd like to listen in, use the People Helping One Another Know Stuff (PHOAKS) search engine from AT&T Labs to capture messages that recommend Web pages and resources. You can browse the Web resource recommendations by topic or by keywords. . [18Apr97.]

Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists -- formerly the MIT list of lists? -- describes online discussions alphabetically by subject. Over 63K mail lists. . [25Mar97.]

CataList, the catalog of LISTSERV lists, lets you browse or search the 10K public LISTSERV lists (by country, host site, size, etc.). Always up-to-date. . [Susan Klopfer , inet-news, 28Dec96. net-hap.]

The Liszt Directory of E-Mail Discussion Groups is a searchable directory of over 48K email discussions and distribution lists. . [Richard Seltzer , Internet-on-a-Disk, 08Jul96.]

Forum One is a another catalogue of discussion forums on the Internet. . [Scout Report, 06Aug96.]

To search UK mailing lists by type, see . [, net-hap, 09Jan97.]

Other such catalogues include E-Mail Discussion Groups and Lists, ; Interest Groups Finder, ; List of Lists, ; and Mailing List Info and News Groups, . For notification of new LISTSERV mailing lists, send a "subscribe new-list your name" message to . [Mike Schelling , BESTWEB, 26Jul96. net-hap.]

Newsgroup/list searches can also be done via InReference , Yahoo!, and other major directories and search engines.

-- Ken