Max,
I have always had my professional listservs automatically filtered to
specific local mailboxes. It keeps everything intact and separate
from regular e-mail and you can view it anytime.
I also tend to view Facebook as non-professional social networking
and leave the various organizational sponsored listservs for the
professional stuff. Honestly, do we really need to become "fans" of
ARLIS/NA or VRA on Facebook when we are already dues-paying members?
John
>Dear colleagues,
>
>Not surprisingly, it sounds like lots of us are trying to strike a
>balance that lets us stay attuned to the things our colleagues are
>doing and saying that interest us, while filtering out things that
>don't, so we can manage our time well. It's been suggested that one
>can do this with a listserv by cultivating a quick trigger finger
>when it comes to hitting the delete button. That's one solution.
>
>I wonder if I'm alone in having adopted another solution to this
>problem. When I subscribe to a listserv like ARLIS-L, I immediately
>set my "preferences" to "no mail" so that no listserv postings at
>all will arrive in my in-box as email. Then I simply bookmark the
>web archives for the listservs that interest me, and I consult them
>periodically, often several times a day, but only when I elect to do
>so. I find this lets me manage the listservs rather than being
>managed by them, while still keeping up pretty well. And it is only
>fair to say that this probably makes me more tolerant of idle
>listserv postings like my own of last Saturday re "Arlisia" - it's
>easy to tolerate what you can easily filter out!
>
>Just in case listserv web archives aren't familiar to everybody,
>here's how it works. In the case of ARLIS-L, when you want to see
>what's up on the list, you can go to the web archive at
><http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html>http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html
>(as instructed on the ARLIS/NA web site page devoted to ARLIS-L; see
><http://www.arlisna.org/about/arlisl.html>http://www.arlisna.org/about/arlisl.html).
>There you can peruse postings for any given month (including the
>current one) sorted in any of a variety of ways: by date (most
>recent first, or in chronological order) or by topic or author, etc.
>You can also search the entire archive and you can respond (to the
>list or an individual) via the web. These browse features of the
>ARLIS-L web archive are entirely typical of most such archives, and
>this very standardization makes it quite easy to scan multiple list
>archives efficiently. Some browsers, of course, let you create a
>"tab group" and to conveniently open several archives at once if
>you're so inclined.
>
>What one loses in this mode is instant awareness of every listserv
>posting, but there are probably other folks who, like me, would
>sacrifice that for the ability to stay relatively current while
>still consulting the listserv postings selectively and only when one
>chooses to do so, rather than having to assume a defensive posture,
>with finger poised over the delete button.
>
>Apologies if the whole world already knows that most listservs have
>such web archives and that they have their uses. Since it hadn't
>been mentioned in this email chain, I thought I'd mention it.
>
>Best,
>
>Max Marmor
>
>
>
>
>
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