Lectures on Electronic Mail Applications Discussion Lists: their actors and roles Javier Santisteban-Ponce, M.D. M.Sc. in Informatics Student Cayetano Heredia University Lima, Peru

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 technical support with the listserver  creation, mantenance and cancelation of discussion lists,  mantenance of the file server... Administrator

 support to development of interaction between members,  support for order and respect within the discussion list,  take care for inclusion of issues which concern to list,  filtering messages sent to list  promote discussions... Moderator

 participate in discussions whitin the list,  communicate with other members,  respect other members of the list by keeping a correct language, which could be informal and cheerful... Subscribers

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Lectures on Electronic Mail Applications Discussion Lists: how to subscribe Javier Santisteban-Ponce, M.D. M.Sc. in Informatics Student Cayetano Heredia University Lima, Peru

How to subscribe to a discussion list? n Find out the addresses for listserver and list n Send an order to the listserver n Wait for confirmation message by (*) n Join the discussion by writing to the list address

Wants to subscribe Step 1: send a request to corresponding listserver address

Commands for subscribing Types of Listserver Commands Listserv, Listproc SUBSCRIBE [list] [name] Majordomo, Macjordomo SUBSCRIBE [list] [ ] Lyris, Mailserv, Maiser SUBSCRIBE [list] Mailbase JOIN [list] [name] Unknown or doubt about the type of server SUBSCRIBE [list] or send a message with the text HELP to receive instructions NOTICE: Many LISTSERVERS allow to omit the [name]

Wants to subscribe subscribe pmail

Wants to subscribe Moderator … you had been subscribed with success to the list pmail… A … your subscription request to pmail has been sent to the list moderator … B.. you must reply to this message for subscribing to pmail… C

Wants to subscribe Moderator Variant A Message … you had been subscribed with success to the list pmail… A

Wants to subscribe Moderator Variant B … your subscription request to pmail has been sent to the list moderator … B

Wants to subscribe Moderator … the moderator communicates with you by and confirms that you meet the admission criteria for the list… Variant B

Wants to subscribe Moderator if you meet the admission criteria, the list moderator orders the listserver to proceed with subscription… Variant B

Wants to subscribe Moderator Variant B Welcome

Wants to subscribe Moderator Variant C Reply to send.. you must reply to this message for subscribing to pmail… C

Wants to subscribe Moderator you receive a confirmation of subscription to the pmail list… Variant C Message

Wants to subscribe Moderador Step 3: start to joining the list… Step 2: receive a confirmation by listserver of the corresponding list

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Lectures on Electronic Mail Applications Discussion Lists: how to find them Javier Santisteban-Ponce, M.D. M.Sc. in Informatics Student Cayetano Heredia University Lima, Perú

Where to search n Search engines on the WWW: n Lists Catalogues n Listservers Web Interfase n Specialty Resources n Searching by electronic mail n Papers and books chapters

Search Engines in WWW Lists Catalogues: n CataList ( n Liszt ( n TileNet ( n The List of Lists ( group-search.html) group-search.htmlhttp://catalog.com/vivian/interest- group-search.html n Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences ( n Topica (

Search Engines in WWW Listservers Web Interfaces: n EGroups ( n OneList ( n Listserv ( Majordomo ( n Mailbase ( n Lyris ( shl/lyris.pl) shl/lyris.plhttp://lists.ctt.bc.ca/cgi- shl/lyris.pl

Search Engines in WWW Specialized Resources: n Specialty Portals (example: PedInfo n Medical Classifiers: OMNI (omni.ac.uk), Medical Matrix ( Health On the Net ( omni.ac.ukwww.medmatrix.orgwww.hon.chomni.ac.ukwww.medmatrix.orgwww.hon.ch

Searching by electronic mail Local search: n Commands sent to a listserver for searching lists locally Global search: n Commands sent to a listserver for searching lists globally

Commands for searching Search goals Commands Find lists locally LISTS Find lists locally with detailed description LISTS DETAILED Find lists about epidemiology in all the associated Listservers LISTS GLOBAL/epidemiology LISTS GLOBAL/epidemiologia LISTS GLOBAL/epidemio Listing for more options... INFO REFCARD NOTICE:Commands useful with LISTSERVERS of Listserv type

Search in papers and books n Reviews about the Internet published in medical journals n Published reports of discussion lists n Book chapters