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 [log in to unmask] 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? O~~* /_) ' / / /_/ ' , , ' ,_ _ \|/ - ~ -~~~~~~~~~~~/_) / / / / / / (_) (_) / / / _\~~~~~~~~~~~zap! / \ (_) (_) / | \ | | Bill Higgins Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory \ / Bitnet: [log in to unmask] - - Internet: [log in to unmask] ~ SPAN/Hepnet: 43009::HIGGINS