Jim Ellis ([log in to unmask]) writes:
 
>Does anyone have information on a listserv that discusses
>environmental education issues?  replies to the MUSEUM-L would
>probably be best as I believe there may be general interest in such.
 
John Chadwick said that he'd be interested too.  Okay.
 
I don't know much about museums, but I'm good at surfing the Net.
(In fact, I don't *really* know what a curator does, and I have no
idea what a registrar does, and nobody has yet posted a clear
explanation!)
 
Here's the result of searching for the string "ENVI" in the giant
list-of-all-LISTSERVs, then eliminating obviously irrelevant items.
(The other obvious choice, "EDU," yields nearly 200 items and is hard
to narrow down.)
 
Network-wide ID  Full address      List title
---------------  ------------      ----------
BIOVEST          BIOVEST@SIVM      Environmental Investment Priorities in Asia
CERES-L          CERES-L@WVNVM     Collaborative Environments for Conserving Ea+
CNRE             CNRE@NERVM        College of Natural Resources and the Environ+
ECOLOGY          ECOLOGY@EMUVM1    Politics and the Environment
EEACT-L          EEACT-L@QUCDN     Eastern Ontario Environmental Education Acti+
EHS-L            EHS-L@ALBNYDH2    EHS-L Environmental Health System
ENVBEH-L         ENVBEH-L@POLYVM   Forum on Environment and Human Behavior
ENVENG-L         ENVENG-L@TEMPLEVM Environmental Engineering Discussion
ENVINF-L         ENVINF-L@HEARN    List for Environmental Information
ENVST-L          ENVST-L@BROWNVM   Environmental Studies Discussion List
ICEE94-L         ICEE94-L@UGA      International Conference on Environmental Et+
LIBENV-L         LIBENV-L@YALEVM   Yale Librarian Environmental LIST (LIBENV-L)
NATOSCI          NATOSCI@BLEKUL11  Information on the NATO Science and Environm+
ONE-L            ONE-L@CLVM        Organization and the Natural Environment
SCANNING         SCANNING@UTARLVM1 UTA environmental scanning evaluation group
SFER-L           SFER-L@UCF1VM     South Florida Environmental Reader
UNCEDGEN         UNCEDGEN@UFRJ     UNCEDGEN - Public discussion List about Envi+
 
All addresses are for Bitnet nodes; you'll have to use a gateway to
send mail if you are on Internet only.  An example would be
 
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at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where the machine
"UICVM.UIC.EDU" is both an Internet node and a Bitnet node (under the
name "UICVM"), and its operators are willing to pass mail from one net
to the other.
 
Now I should show you how to do this yourself.
 
TEACH-A-GUY-TO-FISH DEPARTMENT:
 
All LISTSERV machines know about each other.  To get a list of all
(over 4000) mailing lists in the LISTSERV world, send the command
 
LIST GLOBAL
 
to your favorite server.  (I use LISTSERV@UICVM, or on Internet
[log in to unmask], because it's close to my site.)
 
The format of the file is slightly confusing.  Recall that
LISTSERV@Node is the address of the friendly robot that handles
subscription requests and other administrative stuff.  Listname@Node
is the address where you send thoughtful, witty articles you want the
other subscribers of the list to read.
 
Let's take an example.
 
 
Network-wide ID  Full address      List title
---------------  ------------      ----------
CRYPTO-L         CRYPTO-L@JPNTOHOK Forum on Cryptology and Related Mathematics
 
 
To subscribe to this:  Send a mail message to LISTSERV@JPNTOHOK on
Bitnet that reads
 
SUB CRYPTO-L Your Name
 
To drop your subscription, send the message
 
UNSUB CRYPTO-L  (or SIGNOFF CRYPTO-L is a synonym)
 
To contribute a posting to the list, mail it NOT to the LISTSERV
address but rather to CRYPTO-L@JPNTOHOK on Bitnet.
 
OTHER GOODIES:
 
HELP will of course get you a listing of LISTSERV commands.  You may
want to follow leads in the reply and get HELP on more topics.
 
INDEX listname
 
will get you a listing of files associated with a given list.  Mostly
these are traffic logs, with filenames like CRYPTO-L LOG9205.   (If
there's heavy traffic, they may be making weekly logs rather than
monthly, and files will have names like CRYPTO-L LOG9205A.)  The
ability to "subpoena" traffic logs is one of LISTSERV's best features,
in my opinion.
 
GET filename filetype
 
will cause the LISTSERV robot to send you the file if it exists.
 
Once in a while index and log files will be protected so that only
subscribers to the list can GET them.  In most cases you can join the
list, snarf the files, then signoff the list.
 
I hope this discussion is helpful to you.
 
Now, who's gonna explain "curator" in terms so simple even a
physicist can understand them?
 
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