[In completing this Worksheet, it is recommended that a second window be opened. (To open the second browser window, most likely the command is: Ctrl-N).
One Window can contain the Worksheet, while the second window is used to access the Internet (WWW).]

Now FTP usually is accessed through the WWW.  FTP normally is automatic in browsers such as Netscape Communicator and Internet Explorer. [If you do not have a WWW browser with FTP, or for certain FTP sites, you need FTP software. This is easy to use (somewhat like a file manager), and can be downloaded from the Internet.
The professor of this course can show students how to access FTP sites and is pleased to do so, at mutually convenient times.]

E-Mail Lists

Besides being a useful means of rapid, inexpensive communication, e-mail is an effective medium for maintaining contact with groups of individuals sharing similar interests. Perhaps the most common use of the Internet is membership on E-Mail Lists.  These are subscription lists whose members share a common interest. Often the lists are simply for discussion. In the case of Music lists that involve professionals, often the members use the list to "talk shop". In other words, the members use the list for technical support and assistance, to discuss problems and solutions, and other technical and professional matters, and post employment opportunities. On certain lists (like the Score Users' List), members even look for assistance in completion of large projects (meaning additional employment for the other members).

On a list, the observer can simply “listen in” to discussion, reading messages that others post. When new to a list, it usually is prudent to observe for a while, to see how things are discussed. One may also initiate discussion, usually through posting questions for others to answer.

One good way to become familiar with the workings of e-mail lists is to become a member of one, and observe the types of messages that are exchanged by the other members. In order to become a member of such a list, one subscribes to that list. (Actually, each member of every class at Acadia is a member of the e-mail list for each class. These are local, so not of special interest for this assignment.)

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This Assignment:

•  Each student doing this worksheet will join (subscribe to) one of the three e-mail lists named below.
•  For the week that the worksheet is being completed, each student simply will observe the messages being exchanged.
•  In order to determine that this is being done, each student must (individually) Forward one message per day, on each day listed below, from the list chosen, to the instructor's e-mail address (gcallon @ ca.inter.net or gordon.callon @ acadiau.ca).
• When you Forward each message, add your name to the Subject heading, so I will know that it is a forwarded message
•  Since all forwarded messages bear the address of the sender, the instructor will be able to determine from where every message is forwarded. For this to work, each student must use her or his own account, since it is the account of the individual sending that will show. Please try to use messages that are useful; many are just chat, so of limited interest. If you use an alias, be sure the instructor knows who you really are (for grading).
•  Indicate at the top of each forwarded message that this is the reason the message is being forwarded.

Forward one message on each of three separate days.

(To send a message to the list, for everyone else to read, you send e-mail to the address of the list, usually the  name-of-the-list@  [the same address]. Do not send commands (affecting mail delivery) to this list address; these will not work as commands, and everyone on the list will read your command, and the return address on the mail will tell them all from whence the message came.)

Subscribe to one of the following:

1. Music Library Association Mailing List:  MLA-L

Send the message:
SUBSCRIBE MLA-L [your name]

To the address:
listserv@listserv.indiana.edu

Very quickly, a message will arrive from the Listserv at Indiana University, asking you to confirm your subscription.
You must reply within 48 hours with the message  OK  for you subscription to take effect.

[Then wait for the messages to arrive.  Forward three as outlined above.]

2. The Lute Mail List

To subscribe to the Lute Mail List list, send email to: lute-request@cs.dartmouth.edu

with the following command in the first line of the message:

          SUBSCRIBE

The list moderator is Wayne Cripps. His e-mail address is provided at the Lutes, Old and New site.

To unsubscribe from each:

SIGNOFF MLA-L      to     listserv@listserv.indiana.edu

OR:

UNSUBSCRIBE      to     lute-request@cs.dartmouth.edu

Note:
If you have difficulty signing off the list, do not panic.
Above all, do not send frantic messages to the List!
In the case of any difficulty, contact the list owner. The instructor of this course can and will assist you with this.
The list owners will assist you with problems concerning their lists.
Be very careful about sending messages to a list. Lists have certain modes of behavior that members expect of other members.
Take care that we are not shamed as a location because of inappropriate activity!

There are many other e-mail lists of interest to the musician.
Some can be found in the long list of various resources at The Golden Pages: Links for musicians on the WWW.

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