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.

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

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...

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