you say "no official list" and you are ok but another main reason is changing from .2x to .3a, since most of players ( noobs) didnt know that it was going to change, if you are in .2x you wont be able to play at lw's, lvp, etc, even if you got the correct ip or if the server is in the official tab,
- Most of the players got stucked in 0.2x
thats why San fierro rumble (when .2x was the latest version) had 5-20 players max but when 0.3a came out and all the servers went to 0.3a , san fierro rumble was 1 of the main servers to play for 0.2x players , they reached the maax slots ( 120), and when they changed to 0.3a the maximum was 70- 60 and going down...