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Listserv Section Homework Complete the following assignment or the optional assignment below. E-mail your answers using this link: blick@latech.edu. This assignment will give you a chance to experience listservs first-hand. Subscribe to 10 listservs. Use the listserv search sites to pick groups that sound interesting to you. Starting the day after you receive notification of your subscription, monitor each of those listservs for five consecutive days. Read all of the messages from each listserv each day. At the end of the five-day period, send me the following information for each of the three groups with the most messages. List information for each group separately, so that you send three versions of the form below. NOTE: Some listservs, even though they are listed in the search sites, are inactive. They may go for days or weeks with no messages. (I know from experience, because I manage some of those.) If you don't find any messages from a particular listserv in your e-mail after a couple of days, try another one. I want you to experience actual listserv activity and to use that activity as the basis for your responses to the items below. Your name: 1) Name of listserv: 2) Number of messages you received each day: a) Day 1: b) Day 2: c) Day 3: d) Day 4: e) Day 5: 3) In general, how reliable or accurate did the messages in this listserv seem to be? Explain your evaluation in a paragraph or two. Cite specific examples. 4) Write a paragraph or two summarizing how useful this group might be for someone doing research. Optional Alternate Assignment Rather than using the listserv search
sites to find groups, you may go to Barbara Croll Fought's Web site,
which has information about listservs that are specifically related to
journalism. Its address is http://web.syr.edu/~bcfought/.
To get to the actual information about the journalistic lists, you'll
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