🚀 go-pugleaf

This concept is hard to grasp...my favorite is (I think I got it from this
list)...you register for a course at the registrar's office and attend the
course in the classroom...would you go to the classroom to register for the
course????  Working in a university...that one works great!!!!

Mary Stillwell wrote:

> I found a great analogy for explaining the difference between the listserv
> address and the discussion address somewhere (I can't remember where)...
>
> Describe the listserv address as the Circulation Department of a newspaper,
> and the discussion address as the "Letter to the Editor" department of a
> newspaper.  If you want something changed about your subscription you write
> (send a command) to the Circulation Dept (listserv); if you want your letter
> published (posted), you send it to the Editor (groupname).
> This one really works for me.  Analogies rule!
>
> p.s. Athena--say hi to everyone at UCF for me!
>
> Mary Stillwell
> Gates Center for Technology Access
> Seattle, WA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Athena Holcomb [mailto:holcomba@MAIL.UCF.EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 1998 12:51 PM
> To: NETTRAIN@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU
> Subject: Renewal Woes and Training
>
> In classes I have taught, I have been frustrated by students
> who send messages to the "listserv" address and commands
> to the discussion address -- a few always do no matter how I
> emphasize that "listserv@"goes to a computer program
> and that "groupname@" goes to a group of people.
>
> In a way it is reassuring that the concept may even elude some
> internet trainers.  In another way its disconcerting.
>
> IMO, discussion lists rank near the top of useful internet
> tools.  With the focus on the web these days, I wonder
> how many trainers teach about discussion lists.  What are
> successful ways to ingrain in students the differences in the list
> addresses?
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Athena Hoeppner - Librarian
> holcomba@mail.ucf.edu
> http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~holcomba



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Therese D. O'Neil, Instructor                                      Indiana
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