From: David Madore <madore@clipper.ens.fr>
Newsgroups: sci.math
Subject: Re: Group Theory
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 15:26:52 +0100

Andreas John wrote:
> 
> Hallo everybody!
> 
> To my knowledge, there are 18 regular infinite families of groups
> and 26 sporadic groups known or possible.
> If this is not up to date then please mail to john@ithe.rwth-aachen.de.
> 
> Thanks in advance!

That is quite right. You can find the list of the 26 sporadic groups
and the list of non abelian simple groups of order less than one
billion, at the following URL:
  http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/madore/simple.html

     David A. Madore
    (david.madore@ens.fr,
     http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/madore/index.html.en)