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SCAILAB
- Student Computer Aided Instruction Lab
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What are Listservs and Newsgroups?
Both listservs and newsgroups are Internet discussion groups. A listserv is a discussion named after the original automated computer program, Listserv, which manages the flow of messages.
A newsgroup is a Usenet Discussion Group. Listservs are traditionally considered more academic than newsgroups which discuss topics that include a more popular range of subjects: some academic, some banal, some bizarre. However, during recent years at UIC that focus has been shifting.
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How Do I Set Up a Listserv or Newsgroup?
UIC newsgroups and listservs are set up on-line through the ACCC Computer Center, and not SCAILAB. Go to: http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/
Newsgroup setup requires few answers: all you need to know is how you wish to name your newsgroup.
Listservs are trickier. There are more questions to answer, because as the owner—or if you choose, moderator of the listserv--you are in charge of keeping track of the subscribers.
TIP: More control means more work for YOU. If you chose to moderate your listserv, you will have to sift through submitted posts before re-posting them to the list.
Your class listserv or newsgroup should be ready in a couple of days although they do request a full week's notice. ACCC will e-mail you back a confirmation.
Address all queries to ACCC : consult@uic.edu
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What Other Listserv Commands Do I Need to Know?
Tip: Newsgroups: You have no responsibility to maintain the newsgroup; those functions are assumed by ACCC.
With Listservs, however, you may be required to perform certain maintenance duties.
To get a list of the general listserv commands post the following message to listserv@listserv.uic.edu:
LISTSERV REFCARD: for general user commands
LISTOWNR REFCARD: for list and file management commands
REV listname: to get a list of all the list members
DEL listname email@address: to delete a member without notifying her/him
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How to Join a Newsgroup
- Log into your icarus account and go into pine.
- At Main Menu, go to L (LIST FOLDERS)
- Tab or space down to the bottom half of the screen, to NEWS –Collection. Click
the highlighted area. Click Select here to see expanded list TIP: As a UIC student
you are by default subscribed to a number of newsgroups. These will appear at
the bottom half of your screen. To join any one of them, highlight it and click
ENTER.
- Subscribe to the newsgroup created by your instructor by following the menu
commands
at the bottom of the page: type A (Add)
- You will be prompted for the name of the newsgroup you are to join.
- Your newsgroup’s name is (instructor can enter name of newsgroup)
- Type the full or partial name of the newsgroup and press ENTER.
- You will be asked if this is the newsgroup that you want to join. If it is, type Y.
- You will be subscribed to the newsgroup and it will appear on the list of newsgroups at the bottom half of your screen.
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What You Can Do Now
The newsgroup you have subscribed to will appear among the newsgroups at the bottom of the screen. Highlight it to view it. Once you are subscribed, sending and receiving messages works exactly as it does in your email account.
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How to Subscribe to a Listserv
- To join a listserv you must know the name of the listserv you want to join. Your instructor has created a listserv for your course.
- Log into your e-mail account.
- COMPOSE a new message in pine.
- At the prompt TO type :
Leave the SUBJECT line empty.
- In the MESSAGE TEXT field type:
So if your name is Alanis Morissette and you wish to subscribe to a UIC listserv called, say, beaniebabies@listserv.uic.edu, you will type subscribe beaniebabies Alanis Morissette
- If the subscription has gone through, within some minutes you will receive a message asking your for confirmation. All you need do is
TIP: To get a list of all the discussion groups at UIC compose a message to listserv@listserv.uic.edu and type list in the message field.
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What You Can Do Now
To POST messages to the listserv you have just joined, address them
TO: your listname@uic.edu
Or in YOUR Case
TO:___________________________@uic.edu
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