EdNet@UMass is intended as a forum for the exchange of ideas among those interested in exploring the educational possibilities of this new medium, and beyond.
EdNet@UMass should serve to:
The mission of EdNet is to provide a forum for the discussion of educational uses of the Internet and issues surrounding educational uses of computers.
This is taken to mean that EdNetters will be discussing issues about
'education' itself, educational issues that face us today, as well as how
educators might use the Internet.
That's easy. Send e-mail to:
ednetmgr@educ.umass.edu
If you have a problem, please try be as specific as you can when you tell me what's wrong. Don't worry if you're not. I'll ask questions if I need to.
Note: In many cases the answer to your question is to be found in this
FAQ. But I'd be glad to hear from you anyway.
Send an email message to:
listproc@lists.umass.edu
On the first line of the body of the message, flush against the left margin type this:
Subscribe Ednet (Your Name)
No "Subject:", memohead, date, nothing else. If your mailer requires
something in the "Subject:" field, just insert a single letter.
The chances are high that the CREN Listprocessor has automatically unsubscribed your account. IF this is the reason for you not receiving EdNet, you just need to 'subscribe' to EdNet again.
Here's how to do that. Just send email to:
listproc@lists.umass.edu
And on the first line of your message right up against the left most margin type this:
Subscribe EdNet (Your Real Name - no parenthesis)
No "Subject:", memohead, date, nothing else. If your mailer requires something in the "Subject:" field, just insert a single letter.
Note: If your account has been automatically unsubscribed this means that one of the three things has likely happened:
1. over a period of your site has been unreachable when EdNet has attempted to deliver postings to you.
2. a site along the transit path between EdNet (UMass) and your site was down/unreachable.
3. your mailbox was 'over quota' and your site would not allow you to receive anymore mail.
In all these cases the postings addressed to you will be returned to EdNet's Listprocessor. The Listprocessor, in many cases, will assume that too much traffic is being returned and 'unsubscribe' your account.
Send email to:
listproc@lists.umass.edu
On the first line of your message right up against the left most margin type:
Unsubscribe EdNet
No Subject, No name. If your mailer requires something in the "Subject: " field, then just put a single letter or nonsense syllable.
The answer to this question lies in understanding the 'purpose of quoting' in this medium.
Rarely is there a need to:
There is almost never a reason to quote:
I've offered these as suggestions to you. Please take them in that regard.
EdNet is here to discuss 'education' and learn about what other folks are
doing in 'education'. EdNet is also a place to learn about the Internet.
Hopefully we can help folks do become better, more well informed educators
and citizens of the Net.
In network terminology 'moderated' means that someone here at EdNet will route messages as they come in. Originally EdNet was 'unmoderated' (all messages automatically went to the entire list). The problem with being unmoderated was that messages of a management nature (how do I subscribe, how do I unsubscribe, how do I xxxx, help me with, etc.) were all going to the entire list.
So, EdNet was reconfigured to be 'moderated'. This way we could send List appropriate messages to the entire list, and send management problems to the manager.
Note: When you set your account to 'postpone' the messages to EdNet during this time are not on-hold for you to pick up later. Postpone kills the flow to your account (until you 'ack' - see below).
I suggest that the easiest method to suspend your flow of EdNet traffic, is to 'unsubscribe' and then 'subscribe' when you return.
Send email to: listproc@lists.umass.edu
Type this in the first line of the body of your message right up against the left most margin:
Set EdNet Mail Postpone
If you have set your EdNet to 'postpone' and you wish to have us send EdNet to you once again, send email again to:
listproc@lists.umass.edu
And on the first line of the body of your message right up against the left most margin type this:
Set EdNet Mail Ack
Sounds odd, but trust me.
Again, nothing in the "Subject: " field unless your mailer
requires it, then just use a single letter or nonsense word.
Setting your account to 'digest' causes your EdNet traffic to arrive once a day in your mailbox in an abbreviated form. You do not loose the content of the postings, you just have shorter message headers (that routing junk at that takes up the top 10-20 lines of each message).
Send email to:
listproc@lists.umass.edu
In the first line of the body of your message right up against the left most margin type this:
Set EdNet Mail Digest
If you wish to restore the EdNet flow of traffic to you back to normal then send a message to:
listproc@lists.umass.edu
In the first line of the body of your message right up against the left most margin type this:
Set EdNet Mail Ack
Again, no subject, memohead, date, name, etc.
Yes there is. To get automatic help with the automatic commands available send email to:
listproc@lists.umass.edu
Type this on the first line in the body of the message right up against the left most margin:
Help