My wife is involved with a listserv dealing with the hobby and business rubberstamping. She just received a message saying they were going to start charging for the list. There are approximately 700 members involved in this list and approximately 150-200 messages a day. My knowledge and understandings of listservs is limited. I think I understand it as having an email server that is a relaying point for the server.
Mail is sent to the server and then forwarded to the other recipients.
This has been until recently an unmonitored list but they plan to monitor and censure it closely once they start charging. If a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died what one man's life could be worth, I wonder what would happen to this world.