Listservs: Online Communities for Grownups

Interested in the phenomenon, Beaconfire Consulting and the Water Words That Work project (http://waterwordsthatwork.com) took a close look at how environmental activists used listservs, releasing a report called “A Network of Networks” in March. The research team subscribed to more than 60 local environmental lists, monitoring traffic for a three-month period. Then we invited subscribers to complete an online survey about their habits.