1. Email discussion lists Cardiff Postgraduate Research Seminar 3 February 2006 available at: http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/fontaine/ 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-based e.g. yahoo groups web-based forums e.g. guardiantalk

5. examples of mailing lists Corpora List http://torvald.aksis.uib.no/corpora/ http://torvald.aksis.uib.no/corpora/ Sociocybernetics http://mgterp.freeyellow.com/academic/luh-main_000.html http://mgterp.freeyellow.com/academic/luh-main_000.html Media-Watch http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/MEDIA-WATCH.html http://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. subscribing and unsubscribing: the key to success the server address: communicating with a machine (system commands) the list address: communicating with people (say what you like) 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 http://www.python.org/sigs/md_cmds.html http://www.uh.edu/infotech/php/template.php?maillist_id=27 http://groups.yahoo.com/ Basic Commands in different systems

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 Resources http://www.ifla.org/I/training/listserv/lists.htm http://www.ifla.org/I/training/listserv/lists.htm When Hitting Reply Means Forever By Frank Midler http://chronicle.com/jobs/2005/08/2005082301c.htm http://chronicle.com/jobs/2005/08/2005082301c.htm How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Geek to Live: Train others how to use email by Gina Trapani http://www.lifehacker.com/software/netiquette/index.php http://www.lifehacker.com/software/netiquette/index.php The Net User Guidelines and Netiquette by Arlene H. Rinaldi http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/ethics/html/netiquette.html http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/ethics/html/netiquette.html