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Comment by mtrimpe | Hacker News Reader

Somewhat off-topic; but if you're wondering how this became a story on HN: it was submitted to the ListServe a bit over an hour ago.

The ListServe is a really cool email lottery where every day one person wins the chance to send an email to everyone else on the list, and the results have been nothing short of mesmerizing so far.

http://thelistserve.com/

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My friend also runs the ListServe Archive. It's quite interesting to dig through some of the older submissions and see the variety of the content.

http://thelistservearchive.com/

Direct link to the email for this story, which also contains interesting details not on the site:

http://thelistservearchive.com/2013/06/06.html

Given that they have >22k subscribers already, the chances of actually getting to say something in your lifetime are pretty low - assuming nobody else joins and there are no repeats, it would take over 60 years for everyone to get to post once.

That said, it sounds interesting, as a "15 minutes of fame lottery" at least.

It's well worth it for the range of people and emails. It adds a little spice to every day, and usually gives you something to think about. A little peak into how crazy different everyone lives their lives. It doesn't really matter to me if I'm never picked. In fact, I probably wouldn't want to be picked...

Someone should create something like ListServe, where there were that many subscribers, but I had a higher chance of getting selected :-)

I was going to post something similar, thanks. I was really intrigued by what the HN community's reaction to this would be.

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