East Nashville Listserv – Where Art Thou?

[UPDATE: Laura has set up a NEW LISTSERV with Yahoo! Groups. More info and sign-up here.]

East Nashville is an energetic and historic place and a true melting-pot of Nashville. It’s also BookFool.com’s neighborhood.

A few years ago, some East Nashville neighbors got together to create an East Nashville listerv using Google Groups. If you don’t know, a Listerv is an email list allowing for distribution of email to many subscribers. Therefore, when one person posts an email to the group, it is sent by email to everyone in the group. The Google Group listserv is a free service provided by Google.

For East Nashville, the listerv is like a neighborly chat over the fence. EVERYTHING is discussed. For June 25th, I counted over fifty (50) different new topics being discussed! Some of those included:

• Local Organic Pest Control
• Looking for House to Rent Near 5-Points
• Wedding/Reception Venue? Please Help.
• Dog left outside Tom’s Elite in the hot sun (This is one of many daily animal postings. I posted myself when my dog ran away. Oh, and Tom’s Elite Carryout is a great new eatery on Calvin Avenue & Gallatin Rd in Lockeland Springs. Delicious baked items – nothing fried.)
• Eastland Kroger…again

As you can see, our neighborhood really takes advantage of our listserv. The number of daily emails can be overwhelming. But without the group, a lot of vital information would not be flowing between neighbors.

Listserv Gone AWOL

Yesterday, June 26th, around 10:15AM, the East Nashville Google Group and listserv was shut down by Google. According to Laura Creekmore, the East Nashville Google Group Moderator, “…Google reset its spam filters and apparently caught a bunch of legit lists in the process. They are going thru and manually reviewing them. Until they release the East Nashville list, they won’t allow any posting…”

Laura is giving updates at her site. If the neighborhood listserv comes back online or migrates elsewhere, we’ll both let you know.

In the meantime, neighbors might actually have to seek each other out to discuss area events, find lost pets, or find out when the listserv is back online.

Viva la East Nashville!