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Email discussion lists

Email discussion lists . Cardiff Postgraduate Research Seminar 3 February 2006 available at: http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/fontaine/. While we are discussing emailing… a little reminder to PG students:. University regulations require you to check your email accounts at least once a week

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Email discussion lists

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  1. Email discussion lists CardiffPostgraduate Research Seminar 3 February 2006 available at:http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/fontaine/

  2. While we are discussing emailing…a little reminder to PG students: • University regulations require you to check your email accounts at least once a week • In the near future, none of the CLCR, ENCAP and University Registry distribution lists will contain other than your cardiff.ac.uk account email address • It is absolutely essential that you have regular access to any mail being sent to your cardiff.ac.uk address. • You can use your personal email address to communicate with an individual member of CLCR

  3. Outline • mailing lists: what they are and how they work • finding the right mailing list for you • subbing and unsubbing • what you can do with the list • public vs private behaviour

  4. Internet Mailing Lists:what they are and how they work Majordomo Listserv web-basede.g. yahoo groups web-based forums e.g. guardiantalk

  5. examples of mailing lists • Corpora List http://torvald.aksis.uib.no/corpora/ • Sociocyberneticshttp://mgterp.freeyellow.com/academic/luh-main_000.html • Media-Watchhttp://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/MEDIA-WATCH.html

  6. Discussion Lists, Forums, Newsgroups, and blogs • http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster2/discussion/discussion1.html • http://www.eltweb.com/liason/Discussion_Forums/ • http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog

  7. finding the right mailing list for you • http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk • http://tile.net/listserv/ • http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Ecommstud/resources/ • http://www.linguistlist.org/ • http://chronicle.com/

  8. the server address: communicating with a machine (system commands) the list address: communicating with people(say what you like) subscribing and unsubscribing: the key to success understanding the difference between  it's easy to find out which is which MAJORDOMO@UIB.NO CORPORA@UIB.NO CORPORA-REQUEST@UIB.NO

  9. what you can (should?) do with the list • observe the culture • find out who the members are • introduce yourself • lurk • participate Basic Commands in different systems http://www.python.org/sigs/md_cmds.html http://www.uh.edu/infotech/php/template.php?maillist_id=27 http://groups.yahoo.com/

  10. public vs private behaviour professional/academic email lists are great BUT they can make or break your career! Handle with care. • if you don't know already, learn where you should be sending your message: to all members? one member? or the trash? • be patient, try to avoid "rapid fire" responses • don’t be lazy • never forward/copy/include someone else's private message in a message you send to the list • practice good netiquette • remember: no email is truly private

  11. Questions? Advice? Shared Experience?

  12. Food for Thought / Resources • Internet & Networking:Internet Mailing Lists Guides and Resourceshttp://www.ifla.org/I/training/listserv/lists.htm • When Hitting Reply Means Forever By Frank Midler http://chronicle.com/jobs/2005/08/2005082301c.htm • How To Ask Questions The Smart Wayhttp://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html • Geek to Live: Train others how to use email by Gina Trapanihttp://www.lifehacker.com/software/netiquette/index.php • The Net User Guidelines and Netiquette by Arlene H. Rinaldihttp://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/ethics/html/netiquette.html

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