List Owner Electronic Resources
                              for
ATTAC of National Association of Protection and Advocacy Systems
             Winter Meeting, Atlanta, January 1997
                                
                Sylvia Caras: SylviaC@netcom.com
                                
                        Getting started
 
Starting a news group    www.pop.psu.edu/Oh/users/barr/usenet/
                          alt-creation-guide
 
Searching existing
news group subjects    	www.dejanews.com 
 
Purchasing a host        majordomo@edmonds.home.cs.ubc.ca
 and administration GET FAQ ML-PROVIDERS.TXT 
 
                    descriptions and advice on popular mailing list
                    management packages.  Good overview information
                    entwined with very technical material.
 
Comparing MLM's     LISTSERV@listserv.net
                    GET MLM-SOFTWARE FAQ
 
Lists of lists      LISTSERV@vm1.nodak.edu
                    GET LISTSOF LISTS
 
                         or
 
                    http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html
 
                         file of current LISTSERV lists
 
                    mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu 
                    send usenet/news.answers/periodic-postings/*
 
                              or
 
                    http://www.NeoSft.com/internet/paml/
 
                         Da Silva's files of all current lists submitted
                    
                    http://www.liszt.com/ 
 
                         claim 50 000 lists indexed
 
Announce         LISTSERV@vm1.nodak.edu
                    GET NEW-LIST FORMAT
 
                    description of the NEW-LIST list and instructions for
                    announcing your own new list.  Accepts
                    announcements for lists on all platforms and using all
                    software
 
Greeting example    LISTSERV@stjohns.edu
                    GET MADNESS WELCOME
 
Exit example        LISTSERV@stjohns.edu
                    GET MADNESS FAREWELL
 
Information example LISTSERV@stjohns.edu
                    INFO MADNESS
 
Archives example    LISTSERV@stjohns.edu
                    INDEX MADNESS
 
Netiquette example  LISTSERV@stjohns.edu
                    GET MADNESS NETIQUET
 
                         Keeping Going
 
List owners support comp.mail.list-admin.policy
                    comp.mail.list-admin.software
                    news.lists
 
                    list-managers on majordomo@greatcircle.com
                    list-managers-digest on majordomo@greatcircle.com
 
                                             emphasis on majordomo
 
majordomo documents www.greatcircle.com/list-managers
 
                    and
 
                    www.uchicago.edu/a.docs/Mail/
                    majordomo.admin.html
 
                    contains basic information to administer a mailing list
                    at University of Chicago.  Explains basic terms and
                    concepts, list owner responsibilities, tools they
                    provide.  Good documentation, and the Chicago
                    implementation may not match exactly the one you
                    are using 
 
LISTSERV owners     LSTOWN-L on LISTSERV@    SEARN.SUNET.SE
 
LISTSERV documents  www.lsoft.com/manuals/ownerindex.html
 
LISTSERV archive    LDBASE-L on LISTSERV@UKANVM.CC.UKANS.EDU
search engine
 
                             Other
 
Internet Tools      http://www.december.com/net/tools/
                    by John December (john@december.com)
                    collection of information sources about software           
                    used on the Internet for network information               
                    retrieval, computer-mediated interaction, and              
                    computer-mediated communication.   
 
Unix for bounces    whois, finger, traceroute, nslookup and others 
 
Web subscriptions   http://www.net.nih.gov/listserv.htm
 
                    sample of how to use a web page to input subscriber
                    information
 
Sharewrite:  If your recipients may also reproduce it, you do not change it,
and you include this notice and my name, you may reproduce this material. 
Sylvia Caras, owner MADNESS on LISTSERV@stjohns.edu. 
SylviaC@netcom.com, November, 1996.
 
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