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Judging from the continual repetition of already archived messages, many subscribers to Twain-L seem to be oblivious of the list archive and its associated search engine at <http://bit.ly/HyPtHt>. 

Russ Hunt (2013) in his STLHE-L post "Re: Searching STLHE-L archives" wrote: "The existence of the searchable archive, all the way back to 1991, is, I think, a very important feature of the list." I agree.  

On page 25 of "A Guide to the ADLsphere: Over Eighty Academic Discussion Lists With Links To Their Archives & Search Engines" [Hake (2010)] at <http://bit.ly/970OZr>, I wrote [bracketed by lines "HHHHH. . . . ."; slightly edited]:

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A. WHAT'S A LISTSERV?  

LISTSERV is a trademark of L-Soft <http://www.lsoft.com/>. Although many discussion lists (e.g., AERA lists, EvalTalk, PhysLrnR, POD, STLHE-L, Twain-L, and others - see those preceded by an asterisk in the APPENDIX ) - utilize L-soft software and may properly be called "listservs" a more general term is "Academic Discussion Lists" (ADL's). Incidentally LISTSERV SOFTWARE PROVIDES MARVELOUS ARCHIVES searchable by keyword, author, subject, date, or any combination of those. . . . . . . . . . . For a catalog of LISTSERV lists see <http://www.lsoft.com/catalist.html>."

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Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University. LINKS TO: Academia <http://bit.ly/a8ixxm>; Articles <http://bit.ly/a6M5y0>; Blog <http://bit.ly/9yGsXh>; Facebook <http://on.fb.me/XI7EKm>; GooglePlus <http://bit.ly/KwZ6mE>; Google Scholar  <http://bit.ly/Wz2FP3>; Linked In <http://linkd.in/14uycpW>; Research Gate <http://bit.ly/1fJiSwB>; Socratic Dialogue Inducing (SDI) Labs <http://bit.ly/9nGd3M>; Twitter <http://bit.ly/juvd52>.

 

REFERENCES [All URL's shortened by <http://bit.ly/> and accessed on 03 Nov 2013.] 

Hake, R.R. 2010. "A Guide to the ADLsphere: Over Eighty Academic Discussion Lists With Links To Their Archives & Search Engines," online as a 3.9 MB pdf at <http://bit.ly/970OZr> and as ref. 61 at <http://bit.ly/a6M5y0>. This guide is now slightly outdated. For example it does not contain (a) information on IJSOTL with archives at  <http://bit.ly/HmbnwV>; (b) the new archive for Chemed-L at <http://bit.ly/13BCW9E>.

Hunt, R. 2013. "Re: Searching STLHE-L archives," online on the OPEN! STLHE-L archives at <http://bit.ly/YbllGG>. Post of 29 Apr 2013 14:53:21-0300 to STLHE-L.

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