THANKS. I was among the oblivious. Arianne Laidlaw On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Richard Hake <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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>.=20 > > 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. =20 > > 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]: > > HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH > > A. WHAT'S A LISTSERV? =20 > > 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>." > > HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH > > 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>. > > =20 > > REFERENCES [All URL's shortened by <http://bit.ly/> and accessed on 03 = > Nov 2013.]=20 > > 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 This guide is now slightly outdated.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.= > -- Arianne Laidlaw A '58