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1. Sources for finding Mailing Lists
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excellent way to learn about mailing lists is through other mailing lists. One of
the best sources for this and other types of Internet information is Net-Happenings, a
very old mailing list that is moderated by Gleason Sackman in Fargo, North Dakota. To
subscribe to this list, address an e-mail message to: listserv@cs.wisc.edu.
In the body of the message, type:
Subscribe net-happenings <your first & last name>
There are also a number of databases of mailing lists
available on the Internet. Some of these databases are searchable. One example is Tile.Net.
To seek online conversations about the Monarch Butterfly, we would
- Load the Tile.Net web page into our browser. The URL is: http://tile.net/lists .
- Tile.Net
has a search tool for finding Internet mailing lists. We will start with
very specific words and work toward the more general.
- First I try the word Butterfly. This yields no lists, so I move to the more
general, entomology. This also yields nothing. Going more general still, we enter insect.
This search reveals two mailing lists: INSECT-L and SOCINSCT. Clicking on each list
delivers information about the list and how to join it.
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