Similar to this question What bioinformatics journals do you read?, what listserves do you subscribe to and which of those are helpful?
None. I use RSS where it exists and nothing where it does not. I also find that it is more efficient to search for specific topics as and when they occur to me, than it is to receive a continuous stream of noise in the hope that some of it might be useful.
Agree - I find sites like this replacing the old mailing lists from the help point of view since they have better archiving and tagging of answers. For some more established pieces of software I still find the mailing lists useful for big announcements. It is a different way of communicating.
However, I would also suggest that local mailing lists for finding out about seminars in your building, department, uni, city are useful.
Most of the lists at Bioinformatics.com, EvolDir, Bioconductor's list, PAUP, MrBayes, Mesquite and some others that I might receive one email per year.
samtools, maq, bwa, etc... just because there is no rss feeds for those lists hosted by sourceforge :-(
The general mailing list for dbsnp (NCBI), pubmed (NCBI), genome-announce (UCSC), etc... : usefulto know what is new.
The french bioinfo mailing list is another good resource http://listes.sfbi.fr/wws/info/bioinfo . It is a french list but most messages ( job offers, meetings & conferences, etc... ) are in english.
I tried to subscribe to R-help but that was overwhelming and I felt it was much easier to search the archives instead. I have been subscribing to bioconductor and while that is also a very active listserve, its been quite helpful.
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listserve is a synonymous for mailing list, isn't it?