Electronic Mail and Mailing Lists Resource Links

Electronic Mail Basics

• Internic 15 Minute Modules
  • What is Electronic Mail?
  • What is a Mailing List?
  • What is Netiquette?
• Free Email Address Directory
• Everything E-mail: E-mail Tips by Mary Houten-Kemp
• Free Your Email from C|Net Reviews
• Introduction to Decoding Quite a detailed (and slightly technical) description of encoding and decoding ... we touched on this in class.

Netiquette

• Patrick Crispen's Roadmap 96 Netiquette Chapter
• A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email - Jargon
• Recommended Emoticons and Smileys for E-mail Communication
• The Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette, by Arlene Rinaldi
• E-mail Etiquette
• CAUCE —Join the fight against spam
• The Problem

Email Programs Download Sites

• Eudora Light Email Client A popular email program for Windows or Macintosh computers.
• Pegasus Mail by David Harris A freeware email program for Windows computers.

Viruses

For additional resources on viruses, see Advanced Web Resource Links.

• CIAC Security Web Site

Mailing Lists

• CataList, the official catalog of LISTSERV lists A tool for finding electronic mailing lists that use LISTSERV mailing list software. For example, you can find out how many lists are hosted by the University of Minnesota. Includes information on features, the number of subscribers, and subscription information.
• Tile.net Another searchable directory of mailing lists, newsgroups, ftp sites, and other computer-related sites.

Course Resource Links

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