In article <[log in to unmask]>, Robert Guralnick <[log in to unmask]> writes: > In electronic media, the place where information resides > can jump around readily. Yes. I think it's important that the author have a good understanding of the system he's looking at. For example, in discussing Usenet people sometimes refer to something like "Article 250 in newsgroup bit.listserv.museum-l," without understanding that the article numbers are purely local, assigned by their newsfeed node. I think the truly unique thing about a mailing list article or Usenet article is the "Message-ID:" field. It would be better to ask a *real* network guru, or perhaps peek in Arpanet RFC 822, than to take *my* word for it, though! > Given that, I would cite in the > following unusual matter... > > Guralnick, R. P. Sept. 25 1994. Irreverent Idea About Citations. > Museum-L Listserver. Maintained John Chadwick > ([log in to unmask]). Archived ucmp1.berkeley.edu. > Accessible via gopher as of 1994. Hmm... I guess including information about how to access the archive may be useful, though I would leave John Chadwick out of it. I'd be inclined to say something like: Guralnick, R. P. Sept. 25 1994. "Irreverent Idea About Citations," posting to [log in to unmask] mailing list, message-ID <[log in to unmask]>. Or (since the list is now gatewayed to Usenet): Guralnick, R. P. Sept. 25 1994. "Irreverent Idea About Citations," posting to Usenet newsgroup bit.listserv.museum-l, message-ID <[log in to unmask]>. (Very strictly, I think, bit.* newsgroups are not properly a part of Usenet, since bit.* is not one of the Big Seven Hierarchy (sci.*, comp.*, etc... so I probably STILL don't have this right.) -- O~~* /_) ' / / /_/ ' , , ' ,_ _ \|/ - ~ -~~~~~~~~~~~/_) / / / / / / (_) (_) / / / _\~~~~~~~~~~~zap! / \ (_) (_) / | \ | | Bill Higgins Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory \ / Bitnet: [log in to unmask] - - Internet: [log in to unmask] ~ SPAN/Hepnet: 43009::HIGGINS