home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
File List | 1996-05-06 | 5.3 KB | 99 lines |
- An Educator's Guide to E-Mail Lists (Revised Feb. 1, 1993)
-
- Finding e-mail lists is sometimes difficult for the novice, but
- once you've done so, though they are all excellent in their several ways,
- none seems quite satisfactory for the busy educator. They are either too
- long, too brief in descriptions or confined to only one type of list.
- I've begun to arrange my own though it is another unsatisfactory
- compromise, as well as adding the risk of typos, categorical bloopers,etc.
- It's still in draft form but it might be helpful to some. It's gotten
- long, too, now, but it's shorter than most and the headings help.
-
- Lists change, come and go, so there's no guarantee any one list
- will still be available when you try it, even if the address and
- instructions given are correct.
-
- Most of those below are Bitnet Listserv lists or follow the
- conventions established by Bitnet. You send email addressed to
- listserv@address without a Subject, just the first
- line message of: Subscribe listname Your-Name.
-
- The one-word "@... addresses" following the listname and description
- below are almost all Bitnet addresses. Those on Bitnet, need not
- include the .bitnet part of the address, but on our Internet
- system--and I suppose most others--you must end a bitnet address
- with .bitnet added in the way given below, as well as append "listserv"
- to the front end..(If the address does not begin with "@" [for "at"],
- do not prepend "listserv" or append "bitnet", follow Example 2, below.)
-
- EXAMPLE 1: "ADLTED-L Canadian adult education network @uregina1."
- Here you would send the subscribe message to: listserv@uregina1 --if
- you were on bitnet, but to: listserv@uregina1.bitnet --if you are on
- Internet. First line of message: Subscribe Adlted-L (your 1st & last name)
-
- You can tell a Bitnet address from an Internet address below by the
- period (".") after the "@address." or by the fact that a U.S. Internet
- address always ends with ".edu", ".com", ".org", ".net" or some other
- 3-letter combination. Internet addresses in other countries always end
- in a 2-letter code, as ".ca" for Canada, ".uk" for United Kingdom, etc.
-
- Remember, you always send all listserver commands like Subscribe and
- Unsubscribe to a listserver--never to the List itself. Listservers, whatever
- they're called, are just computers programmed to automatically handle
- the details of subscribing, mailing, etc. But some modify or don't follow
- the conventions for subscribing above or are still tended "by hand"!.
-
- So instead you send an email message to an individual or to a -request
- address or just an address. The addresses below usually indicate that
- and the message is usually the same required above, though you probably
- should add your exact email address as well...unless it bounces that way.
-
- EXAMPLE 2:--
- "TRAVEL-ADVISORIES distributed from U.S. State Dept.. -request@stolaf.edu"
-
- here email to: travel-advisories-request@stolaf.edu a message
- like: Subscribe Travel-Advisories John Doe Jdoe@blank.bb.UUU.edu
- so that if the distribution mechanism is tended by hand, your email
- address can be easily picked up. This is NOT necessary for the
- usual programmed response described above, where your email address
- is taken automatically from the "From: " line of your header. (See
- example of message for Bitnet LISTSERV and imitators above.)
- Another example of the second type==
- " SIS Strategic Info. Systems for executive planning
- mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk"
- Address subscribe message to: mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk
- Still another--
- " GRAD-ADV Advisors of undergrads on grad schools; grad catalog db.
- archive@mento.acs.unc.edu"
- Send message to: archive@mento.acs.unc.edu
- Another Internet address example--
- "CAIRNET California Assn. for institutional research list. @uci.edu"
- Send message to: listserv@uci.edu No ".bitnet" suffix necessary.
-
- The following is only an arbitrary sample of the email lists that
- might be of interest to one or another group of educators, no doubt
- with some clinkers among them, arranged according to my own notions, mostly
- from the long file obtained by sending the email message: List Global
- to: listserv@vm1.nodak.edu
-
- If you have problems, questions or corrections, additions, email me at:
- pgsmith@educ.umass.edu
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Prescott Smith - Univ. of Mass/Amherst - pgsmith@educ.umass.edu
- Ednet - a forum exploring the educational potential of the Internet
- e-mail to: Listserv@nic.umass.edu 1st line: Sub Ednet (Your Name)
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Instructions for FTP'ing updates of this file are below.
- A list of Usenet Newsgroups under similar Education headings is
- also available. Length: 47K.
-
- ftp nic.umass.edu
- login: anonymous (or user anonymous)
- password: (Your email address)
- cd pub/ednet
- get educatrs.lst
- get edusenet.gde
- bye
- .
-