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LISTSERVS
What is
a Listserv?
A
listserv is an email mailing list that includes the email addresses of
people with a common interest. Listservs are set up to feature a pre-determined
topic allowing list members to create and share timely content around
that topic. When you submit a question or comment to the listserv, your
submission is distributed to all of the other people on that list. A listserv
member may contribute ideas, questions and answers to the list or may
choose to just sit back and monitor the discussion. Listservs are conducted
asynchronously.
Listserv
is short for list server, the type of software that manages mailing lists
by automatically distributing messages to all members of the list. Each
listserv has two different addresses. When you wish to "send mail
to the list" you would use the list address. When you wish to join
or "subscribe" to the list you would use the LISTSERV address.
It is important to save this address so that you will also be able to
"unsubscribe"!
For an in
depth explanation of listservs (aka - automatic mail lists) go to the
following web page: http://www.webteacher.org/windows.html
Why subscribe to a listserv?
"You
ought to join a listserv! Meet teachers from around the world. Discuss
issues of interest. Share ideas with your colleagues. That's what listservs
are all about!" …Education world (http://www.education-world.com)
There are
hundreds of educational listservs to choose from. Explore the following
links to find listservs related to your area of interest in education.
Management
Tips
1. Keep a Copy of the Welcome Letter When you successfully sign-up with
a listserv, they'll send you a welcome message. This letter will contain
tips for sending your mail as well as how to unsubscribe from that mailing
list. You should save this message.
2. Check Your E-mail Daily Some listservs will send several messages daily.
Others will send one message in the form of a digest . This is one long
message containing several responses to the listserv. Other listservs
send messages weekly, and others are very sporadic. Regardless of how
a listserv shares information with the group, you will need to check your
e-mail daily. Remember that the webserver that stores your incoming e-mail
messages only has so much disk space.
3. Following Threads of Discussions By signing up with a listserv, you
are not obligated to respond to all messages, or to any message. Pick
and choose the topics that interest you. Look at the subject line of the
incoming messages to see which thread of discussion is being addressed
in that message. In large listservs, several different threads of discussions
will be ongoing at one time.
4. Help When You Can The purpose of listservs is to share information.
Help individuals in a query whenever you can, because someday you may
want help locating information. Sometimes it is better to respond to just
an individual rather than sending your message to the entire listserv
group.
5. Unsubscribe If You'll Be Gone If you plan on being gone for more than
a week and will be unable to check your e-mail, you should unsubscribe
from the list then you can resubscribe when you return.
6. Use a Meaningful Subject Line When people receive mail from a listserv,
one of the first pieces of information they look at is the subject line.
Some people will delete unread messages simply because the subject line
announces a topic that they are not interested in. If you subscribe to
a high volume listserv, you'll appreciate those messages that have clear,
meaningful subject lines.
7. Sending Attachments Never send attachments with e-mail messages to
individuals or to the listserv without prior permission from the recipient.
8. Cross Posting If you are posting the same message to several listservs,
at the beginning of your messages state, "This message has been cross
posted to (names of other listservs)."
Listserv
Definitions
1. Attachment:
A file or group of files that is attached to an e-mail message and sent
to a recipient.
2. Flaming: The sending insulting, abrasive, or threatening remarks.
3. Moderated List: A mailing list or newsgroup in which
submissions are edited before being posted to the group.
4. Spamming: The practice of sending unsolicited commercial e-mail
messages in bulk or purposely overloading someone's mailbox with messages.
5. Threads: A group of e-mail messages that are all responding
to one original e-mail message.
6. Emoticon: A text-based icon created from the keyboard to give
your e-mail message some emotional flavor.
7. :-) Smiley
8. ;-) Wink
9. :-> Devilish grin
10. :-( Frown
11. 8-) User wears glasses
12. (-: Left handed smiley
13. :-{) User has a mustache
14. [:-) User is wearing a walkman
15. %-) User has been staring at the screen too long
16. Frequently Used Acronyms: Often seen in e-mail messages, this is
another way for adding emotional flavor to messages.
17. AFAIK As far as I know
18. BTW By the way
19. FYI For your information
20. HTH Hope this helps
21. IMHO In my humble opinion
22. IMNSHO In my not so humble opinion
23. IMO In my opinion
24. IOW In other words
25. LOL Laughing out loud
26. ROTFL Rolling on the floor laughing
27. YMMV Your mileage may vary
28. {g} Grin
29. {BG} Big grin
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