"Finding Women on the Internet"
References

Mailing Lists

The following descriptions and instructions are quoted directly from Joan Korenman's comprehensive document: Gender-Related Electronic Forums:

COUPLES-L is a moderated list that focuses on "significant relationships, with topics encompassing sex, love, romance, and partner dynamics." Send usual subscription request to LISTPROC@CORNELL.EDU.

CYBER-SISTERS is an unmoderated list for women artists, performers, and writers who wish to use the Internet and WWW to explore their art, express their creativity, and network with other women. To subscribe, send the message SUBSCRIBE CYBER-SISTERS to MAJORDOMO@PMEDIA.COM . More information on CYBER-SISTERS and a gallery and publication vehicle for women artists is available on the World Wide Web.

LIBFEM is an unmoderated list for "polite exchanges" among "individualist feminists." Send subscription messages to LIBFEM-REQUEST@MATH.UIO.NO (Internet).

LIVING is a forum for lesbians with some sort of physical handicap. It is not limited to lesbians in wheelchairs, but is meant to be a support list for lesbians to talk about any sort of physically challenging situation that they are living in at the moment, be it temporary or permanent. For subscription information, write to LIVING-REQUEST@QICLAB.SCN.RAIN.COM .

MAC-WOMEN is a Macintosh help forum for women only, designed "to provide women who are Mac experts a chance to share their knowledge, and to provide women who are Mac users a comfortable, low-volume forum for learning more about all things macintosh." To subscribe, send the one-word message SUBSINGLE (for regular version) or SUBSCRIBE (for digest version) to MAC-WOMEN-REQUEST@LISTS1.BEST.COM .

SAPPHO is a forum and support group for gay and bisexual women. Membership is open to all women and is limited to women. For more information, contact SAPPHO-REQUEST@APOCALYPSE.ORG.

SPIDERWOMAN is a high-volume list for women who manage and/or design World Wide Web sites. It supports women Web designers by providing a supportive atmosphere to deal with Web development and consulting, including such issues as HTML coding questions, developing standards for Web pages, integration of business and social responsibility, networking, being a female computer consultant/Web developer, etc. To subscribe, send the message SUBSCRIBE SPIDERWOMAN to MAJORDOMO@LISTS.PRIMENET.COM .

VS-ONLINE-STRAT is an online forum focusing on issues directly related to women's organizations' utilization of electronic communication and publishing technologies--where the roadblocks are to engaging women's organizations fully in the electronic communications world and what strategies work. To subscribe, send the message SUBSCRIBE VS-ONLINE-STRAT to MAJORDOMO@IGC.APC.ORG . [NOTE: The list's first letter is V, not U.]

Web-Based Forums

FORUMS ON WWWOMEN
http://www.wwwomen.com/

PLEIADES NETWORKS
http://www.pleiades-net.com/

WOMEN ONLINE WORLDWIDE
http://www.wowwomen.com/