Get On a List
by Craig Warren
Thousands of mailing lists have already been formed by users with common interests. You may find mailing lists for celebrities, organizations, political interests, occupations and hobbies.
Groups come in several different flavors. Some are extremely active. You can recieve as many as forty or more email messages a day. Other lists may send you a message a month. One-way lists, such as printed newsletters do not distribute your reply to any other subscriber.
You join in the discussion by subscribing to a list which is as straight-forward as sending email. You need to know only two items: the name of the list and the address of the list server program handling subscriptions. To join a list, send a subscribe message to the list server address.
The message must contain the letters "sub" the name of the list and your name, all on one line. This message will be read by a computer program that looks for these items only. At the very best, other comments in the message will be ignored and so will you.
Within a few hours to a day after subscribing, the list server will automatically send you a confirmation email message, including instructions for sending messages, finding out information about the list and it's members and canceling your subscription. Save this message for future reference. That way, if you decide to leave the list, you won't have to circulate a message to the members asking how to unsubscribe and you won't have to wade through fifty replies all relaying the same information you recieved when you joined.
Soon after your confirmation message appears in your mailbox and depending on the activity level of the list, you'll begin recieving email messages. New list subscribers customarily wait a while before joining the disscussion. After all, you're electronically strolling into a room full of strangers, it's only fair to see what topics are being discussed before wading in with your opinions.
Observe the list for a while, understand it's tone and feel, what topics are of interest to others and what areas are taboo. Also, look for personalities, who's the most vociferous, who writes very little but responds thoughtfully, who's the most flexible, the most rigid and most of all, keep in mind that there are far more observers than participants. What you write may be read by 10 or 100 times more people than those whose names show up in the daily messages.
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