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7 C H A P T E R © 2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved1 Listserv Listserv is an Internet service that uses e-mail protocols to distribute messages to lists of users. The messages get served to everyone whose name is on the list. Hence the name listserv.
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© 2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved2 C H A P T E R 7 Objectives: Describe how listserv works through e-mail protocols. Find out the names of listservs in your discipline or any other subject that interests you. Subscribe to a listserv. Know when to lurk on a listserv.
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© 2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved3 C H A P T E R 7 Objectives: Respond to messages received from a listserv. Send new messages to a listserv. File messages received from a listserv. Unsubscribe from a listserv. Set up your own listserv so you can host a listserv on the Internet.
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© 2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved4 C H A P T E R 7 How to Subscribe to a Listserv First, many listservs have a Web page where you sign up by filling out a form that prompts you for your name and e-mail address. The second way to join a listserv is to send its host computer an e-mail message saying that you want to subscribe. There are two ways to subscribe to a listserv:
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© 2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved5 C H A P T E R 7 Recommended Listservs The following listservs deal with technology and focus especially on emerging tends and issues regarding the internet: HTML-GROUP
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© 2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved6 C H A P T E R 7 Finding Listservs in Your Profession You can use the Web to find out about listservs across a broad range of disciplines and professions.
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© 2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved7 C H A P T E R 7 Receiving Listserv Messages: Remember to Lurk! The messages sent by the listserv appear automatically in your e-mail in-box, where you read them like any other e-mail message. This message came from the NesScan listserv The From field indicates that the message came from a listserv.
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© 2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved8 C H A P T E R 7 Responding to a Listserv Message To respond, simply press your Reply button, and enter your response just like you would send an ordinary e-mail message.
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© 2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved9 C H A P T E R 7 Sending a New Message to a Listserv When you join a listserv, you will be told how to address new messages that you want to send to the listserv. Since listserv addresses can be technical and hard to remember, it’s a good idea to enter this address in your e-mail client’s Address Book,
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© 2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved10 C H A P T E R 7 Filing Messages Received from Listservs Since messages from listservs arrive as e-mail messages, you can click your File button and file them, just like any other e-mail message.
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© 2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved11 C H A P T E R 7 How to Pause a Listserv To pause a listserv, send it the following command: SET NOMAIL To resume the listserv, send the following command: SET MAIL
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© 2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved12 C H A P T E R 7 Finding Out Who Belongs to a Listserv To find out who is getting a copy, send the following command to the listserv: REVIEW listname If that doesn’t work, try: WHO listname
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© 2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved13 C H A P T E R 7 How to Unsubscribe from a Listserv To unsubscribe, follow the steps in the message you got from the listserv. Many listservs write unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of every message, so you can always find out how to unsubscribe.
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© 2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved14 C H A P T E R 7 Listserv Archives Many listservs have archives in which the messages sent to the list are filed. You can read and in many cases search the archives online.
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© 2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved15 C H A P T E R 7 Listserv Command Summary SUBSCRIBE listname full_name - Subscribes you to the list, or changes the name under which you were previously subscribed; replace full_name with your name. SUBSCRIBE listname ANONYMOUS - Subscribes you to the list anonymously, if the listserv allows that for this list. REVIEW listname - Get information about a list, including who owns it and who belongs to it.
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© 2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved16 C H A P T E R 7 Listserv Command Summary SET NOMAIL - Make the listserv stop sending you messages (to resume, send the command SET MAIL). RELEASE - Find out information about the listserv software being used to run this listserv, and who maintains the server. SIGNOFF listname - Unsubscribes you from the list. SET listname CONCEAL - Hide yourself from REVIEW.
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© 2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved17 C H A P T E R 7 Listserv Command Summary SET listname NOCONCEAL - Let yourself be listed by REVIEW. SHOW STATS - Show statistics about the listserv. SEARCH listname keyword1 - Search the listserv archives; for more search options, send the LISTSERV REFCARD command. QUERY listname - Queries your set of options on the listserv; use SET to change them.
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© 2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved18 C H A P T E R 7 Listserv Command Summary LISTSERV REFCARD - Makes the listserv e- mail you a reference card listing commands users can send the listserv.
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© 2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved19 C H A P T E R 7 Setting Up your Own Listserv If you want to set up your own listserv, you can do so “for free” at a Web such as topica.com or egroups.com.
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