Reviewing Internet Mailing Lists

Comparative analysis of pediatric mailing lists on the Internet.

OBJECTIVE To analyze quantitative aspects and the relative quality of various pediatric discussion groups on the Internet and to contrast them with qualitative aspects of a selected number of pediatric journals. MATERIAL AND METHODS An extensive number of mailing lists on the Internet of interest to pediatricians was compiled. Twelve of them concerned with pediatric specialties were selected....

Productivity in the Internet mailing lists: A bibliometric analysis

Classification of Internal Mailing Lists

The School of Information at UC Berkeley has two main internal mailing lists, Fun and Noise, for informal communication between students, faculty and alumni. Fun is meant for timesensitive, actionable information such as events, parties and concerts. Noise is intended to cover everything else, including technology reviews, job opportunities, political opinions, news, and knowledge sharing. This...

Mailing Lists and Internationalized Email Addresses

This document describes considerations for mailing lists with the introduction of internationalized email addresses. This document makes some specific recommendations on how mailing lists should act in various situations.

Mailing Lists Meet the Semantic Web

Mailing list archives (i.e., the compilation of the messages posted up-to-now) are often published on the web and indexed by conventional search engines. They store a vast knowledge capital. However, the ability to automatically recognize and process the information is mostly lost at publishing time. As a result, the current mailing list archives are difficult to query and have a limited use. T...