A years or 2 into my time on that anarchist email list, some of the links people shared led to a newish service called EGroups, where anyone could start their own email lists;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EGroups
It was later bought by Yahoo! and merged with YahooGroups, and a couple of decades later, deleted. My first experience of a startup funded by Venture Capitalists, and the startup lifecycle described in @Rushkoff's 'Throwing Rocks ...', and @aral's talk about unicorns shitting on lawns.
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