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What is a
Listserv?
Subscribing
to a Listserv
Listservs
of Interest to ESL and technology
Resources
for finding listservs
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lists (sometimes called mailing lists or
just lists). Each list connects a group
of people who have similar interests.
Thus each list has its own purpose,
scope, and potential subscribers. When
people subscribe to a list, their names
and e-mail addresses are encoded in a
mailing list on one central computer.
Anything members post (send) to the list
is distributed to all other members.
People send questions, opinions,
announcements, responses, and other
information of interest to members to the
list. You can exchange
information, ask for information or
suggestions, give your ideas, and help
other members. If you actively
participate in discussions, you will get
a quite lot out of those lists. People
will answer your questions and respond to
your opinions or information you give.
So if you
subscribe to a list, you do not need to
send e-mail to all members individually
and you don't need to go out onto the
Internet to find the list. All postings
to the list are automatically forwarded
to your e-mail account. One drawback to
this is that messages from the list are
mixed in with all the other e-mail you
receive and are not threaded.
Some lists
have only 100-200 members while others
may have more than 1,000 or even 10,000
members. Each list has its own rules,
although certain rules of netiquette need to be
followed on all lists.
For more
information about listservs read the Listserv manual.
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- To subscribe
to a listserv, send an e-mail to listserv@domain
(the domain refers to the computer that
stores the list, in this case, San
Francisco State University) **important This is the
LISTSERV address.
for
example:listserv@thecity.sfsu.edu
- In the body
of the message, write subscribe
listname YourFirstName
YourLastName
for
example: subscribe NETEACH-L Cathy
Hall
Do not
put a subject of the e-mail nor attach a
signature file.
- Within
minutes of subscribing, you should
receive confirmation of your subscription
and important information you need to
know about the list, e.g., how to
unsubscribe, how to post a message, rules
of netiquette, etc.
- When you send
a message to listserv@domain, you are
communicating with a computer so you
don’t give any explanations or other
information as a computer cannot
understand it. Doing so may cause
problems with the subscription process.
- When posting
to the list, i.e, having a discussion
with the other members, send your message
to NameOfList@domain **important This is the
list address.
for
example: NETEACH-L@thecity.sfsu.edu
Be sure to
include a subject that adequately describes
the content of your message.
- It is
important to understand the difference
between the LISTSERV address and
the list address. When you send to
the LISTSERV address, you are
communicating with a computer, not with
people.
So if you want
to subscribe, unsubscribe, etc., you need to
send your message to the LISTSERV address (listserv@thecity.sfsu.edu),
don’t send it to the list (NETEACH-L@thecity.sfsu.edu)
because that address will send your message
to everyone who subscribes to the list. When
they read your message that says:
unsub
NETEACH-L
they will know
you made a silly mistake and they may send
you nasty e-mail messages telling you about
it. This is the most common mistake made on
discussion lists.
On the other
hand, if you post a message to the list but
send it to the LISTSERV address, you are
wasting your time because the computer
you’ve sent it to can’t understand
it. At least no one else will know you made a
mistake, though.
- One important
thing that needs to be remembered about
subscribing to a list is that some of
them have different commands for
subscribe. You should always read the
given information on how to subscribe
before trying to do so.
Listservs
of Interest to ESL and technology
EDNET -
a list descussing computer networking and
its relationship to education. To
subscribe, send the message:
subscribe EDNET yourfirstname
yourlastname
to listserv@nic.umass.edu
EDUTEL -
a list discussing computer-mediated
communications (CMC) applications in
educational contexts. To subscribe, send
the message:
subscribe EDUTEL yourfirstname
yourlastname
to listserv@rpitsvm.bitnet
NETEACH-L -
is an on-line forum through which
international teachers of English to
speakers of other languages (ESOL) can
discuss issues related to using
technology as an educational tool. To
subscribe, sent the message:
subscribe NETEACH-L FirstName
LastName
to listserv@thecity.sfsu.edu
TESLCA-L -
is a sub-branch of the TESL-L listserv.
TESL-L designed to give ESL-EFL teachers
the opportunity to collaborate with other
teachers around the world and to get
infromation, resources, and materials
that will help you teach. TESLCA-L is the
branch that deals with computer
assisted language learning (CALL).
To subscribe to TESLCA-L, you must first
subscribe to TESL-L by sending the
message:
sub TESL-L yourfirstname yourlastname
to listserv@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Once you are subscribed to TESL-L,
you may subscribe to TESLCA-L by sending
the message:
sub TESLCA-L
yourfirstname yourlastname
to listserv@cunyvm.cuny.edu
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