Mailing Lists and Newsgroups CSCI 170 Internet Resources

Mailing Lists and Newsgroups CSCI 170 Internet Resources

Mailing Lists l What is it? l. A list of names and email addresses for a group of people who share a common interest Subscribing to the mailing list l Posting to the mailing list l List Server (List. Serv, Major. Domo, List. Proc) l

Mailing Lists l Which email address to use? l List Address – for posting l Administrative Address – for commands l Don’t get them mixed up!

Mailing Lists l Commands list: l subscribe listname yourname l unsubscribe listname l review listname l index listname l get filename l Also… conceal, vacation, digest, daily

Mailing List Moderated or unmoderated? l Open list or closed list? l Lurking l FAQs and list rules l List Administrator l

Mailing Lists l Finding Mailing Lists: l http: //lists. topica. com/ l Search l i. e. l On Engines “extreme sports mailing list” Individual pages l i. e. http: //www. balloonhq. com

Mailing Lists Find a mailing list to subscribe to l Read messages l Post a message to it l Finding archives l Unsubscribing from mailing list l

Newsgroups Usenet News Service (Usenet) founded in 1979 at Duke U as a way to collect and store information by topic category l Newsgroups, new forums, discussion groups l

Newsgroups News Server – database storing articles l News Feed – store and forward l Articles – individual postings l Newsgroups – organized by category l

Newsgroups l Top-level categories: l l l l comp – computers rec – recreation and entertainment sci – science soc – social issues and socializing news – operation and administration of Usenet talk – conversations, debates and arguments misc – miscellaneous topics alt – alternative and controversial topics

Newsgroups l Examples: l biz. marketplace. computers. pc-clone l biz. marketplace. computers. mac l biz. marketplace. discussion l biz. marketplace. services l alt. rec. tv. simpsons l alt. rec. beer

Newsgroups l Accessing newsgroups l Web access – http: //www. Tile. net l Google Groups – http: //groups. google. com l News. Reader software