Taxacom -- Biological Systematics Discussion List
About Taxacom	English (USA)
Taxacom is an e-mail list for biological systematics. Brought to life by Dr. Richard Zander, Taxacom began its peripatetic existence on the dark and snowy night of January 12, 1987 as a dial-up BBS at the Buffalo Museum of Science (Buffalo, New York). It re-emerged as a BITNET Listserv at Michigan State University, on Feb 9, 1990, and moved to the Harvard University 'Harvarda" Listserv on November 2, 1992. It subsequently appeared as a Listserv list on cmsa.berkeley.edu on October 20, 1994. Finally, Taxacom migrated to the Listserv at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum on May 1, 1999; and was reconfigured with GNU Mailman mailing list software on April 28, 2006. Peter Rauch (Univ. of California, Berkeley, retired) and Jim Beach (Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence) have co-managed Taxacom since 1990. The role and impact of Taxacom in the systematics community has been examined sociologically, by the ethnographer Dr. Christine Hine, in her 2008 book: Systematics as Cyberscience, MIT Press, ISBN 978-0-262-08371-3. To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the Taxacom Archives.
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