** Sometime around 12:35 +0200 07/06/01, David Sharp sent everyone:

>I have in my archives a discussion from April 1999 on Topica taking 
>over Liszt.

Purchasing, IIRC.

>Since around then, requests sent to http://www.liszt.com/ have been 
>rerouted to http://www.topica.com/
>
>Until recently I had maintained the "liszt" address on my links page 
>out of a mixture of nostalgia and wishful thinking, but also because 
>I thought that the Topica equivalent was still a genuine open list 
>index.

For the most part, it still is.

>When I see the way the Topica page looks now, it seems to me that's 
>no longer clear.
>
>It looks just like a commercial site for Topica's services, maybe 
>with a few "heritage" listings thrown in.

I believe that the entire Liszt database is still there.

>In particular, I don't see any obvious link asking people to add new 
>lists that aren't Topica products.

It is somewhat buried: <http://www.topica.com/owner/add2dir.html>

>My question is : Does Topica remain an equivalent of the sadly deceased Liszt?

More of an augmentation; Liszt is a subset of Topica.

>If not, is there another site which performs a similar function?

I'm not familiar with any.


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Vince Sabio                                                  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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