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Module Three: Netiquette, Lists, Usenet News

Objectives of Module Three

Become familiar with the acceptable conduct and procedures of the Internet

Become familiar with Mailing Lists and Listservs and their application

Become familiar with Usenet News and its application

Create, subscribe, read and reply to newsgroups

1. Subscribe to at least two Mailing Lists or Listservs that interest me and that will help with my final project. Create a mailbox for messages from these lists.
2. Understand what Internet Netiquette is and how to practice it.
3. Subscribe to two Usenet newsgroups, "lurk" for a while, then start interacting.
4. Change my Internet password to practice good Internet security.

Assignment One

I subscribed to, and am still on, the LISTSERV "SEELANGS", which is a list about Russian topics, job postings and up-coming conferences. You can join this list by sending the message "sub SEELANGS your name" to listserv@cunyvm.cuny.edu.

I also subscribed to the LISTSERV PHIL-LIT, which stands for "Philosophy and Literature". It includes mostly academic discussions between professors and students about various aspects of philosophy and world literature. You can subscribe to this LISTSERV by sending the message "sub META-PHIL-LIT your name" to listserv@listserv.tamu.edu.

I answered the following query:

Imagine some catastrophe is going to destroy our civilization (not difficult to do, is it?), but not the entire human race. A team of persons is chosen to preseve the heritage of our civilization in a vault for future humans. You are a member of the panel on the period from 1,000 - 2,000 CE.

If you were invited to choose: A single visual work of art (painting,print, sculpture, mosaic); A single musical composition (instrumental or vocal); A single dramatic work (opera, dance, or theatre); A single poem (epic, narrative, or lyric); A single novel That represents the greatest work of creative imagination, human insight and achievement for the millennium, what items would be on your list?

Several possible (and conflicting) criteria:

* Knowledge of the "metanarrative" of Western culture assumed as a benchmark (this means that your selection assumes that the artist and the viewer/reader/listener has some familiarity with Western culture); you will provide didactic materials in the vault.

* Transferability to other cultures, periods (this means that your selection is believed to be such that it would be valued even by humans with no knowledge of our civilization and its history).You will provide no didactic materials in the vault.

*Creativity within a tradition/genre (this means that the selection represents the fullest possible development of a specific genre or tradition; i.e. Shakespeare and the sonnet) *Creativity beyond a tradition/genre (this means that part of the selction's greatness consists in its ability to redefine an existing genre or to invent a new one).

Here were my answers:

Hi. Here are my responses to David's survey:

Rodin's "The Secret" (complete simplicity -- hands hiding something), or Vrubel's Demon -- he has captured the essence of Leromontov's character.

I don't know. I don't know enough. In an aside category, i would have to say Sympathy for the Devil by the Rolling Stones.

Hamlet, or Pushkin's The Queen of Spades (turned opera)

Evgenii Onegin (Pushkin again) and Nabokov's English translation of it.

Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment

Lindsay Malcolm
M.A. Russian Literature (can you tell?)
lmalcolm@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca

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Assignment Two

The Internet has its own culture. You must be as polite during electronic interactions as you are when you are talking face to face. Take the time to learn how people communicate on the particular newsgroup, listserv or chatroom you've joined before you start: "Lurk before you leap".

You must also know the lingo. The internet has its own expressions and symbols. A Netdictionary is a good idea when you are just beginning.

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Assignment Three

Hi. I didn't know anything about George Eliot either, so i looked her up on the web. Here are some sites you can check out before even buying books or going to the library:

http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/eliot/eliotov.html

http://www.chesco.com/~artman/eliot.html

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/mmbt/women/VW-Eliot.html

http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/eliot/bede/

http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/eliot/jacob/

I hope you enjoy surfing through these as much as i did. Thank you for bringing this up. I know one thing i want to do when the school term is over now!
Lindsay.

• If you would like to exit this web page to access the Rolling Stones group, click here.

• If you would like to exit this web page to access the literature group, click here.

Assignement Four

I do change my password regularly, but it would not be good Internet security to tell you from what to what!

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