Not able to participate in this year's project, but would you like to connect to your ESL/World Language Peers? Why not sign-up for our project listserv?!

Listservs are virtual "bulletin boards" where you can post questions and comments and respond to items posted by others, using nothing more than standard E-mail. A listserv mailing list basically allows you to send one message to a central address and have that message distributed to all other subscribers. The subscribers share a common interest, and in your case World Languages/ESL Educators. If someone responds to your message, that response is, in turn, distributed to all subscribers. The result is a running conversation to which you can contribute or simply read as it progresses.

How to join the WLC listserv:
1. Create an e-mail message to:  wlc-subscribe@warrennet.org

2. Leave the "subject" line of that message blank.

3. For the first line of the message body type:

   SUBSCRIBE GIVEAHOOT(YOUR NAME)

4. Send the message.

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Do you have questions about the listserv and subscription Processing? Here's some information that may assist you.

In order to subscribe, unsubscribe, and change your subscription mode via E-mail, users of the wlc@warrennet.org mailing list should send any message to the following addresses:

Send to address:	New user	Existing subscriber
wlc-on@warrennet.org or wlc-subscribe@warrennet.org	to subscribe to the list in the default mode	to confirm the current subscription mode
wlc-feed@warrennet.org	to subscribe to the list in the FEED mode	to change the subscription mode to FEED
wlc-digest@warrennet.org	to subscribe to the list in the DIGEST mode	to change the subscription mode to DIGEST
wlc-index@warrennet.org	to subscribe to the list in the INDEX mode	to change the subscription mode to INDEX
wlc-off@warrennet.org or wlc-unsubscribe@warrennet.org		to unsubscribe from the list

When subscription request messages are sent to these addresses, the message From: header fields are used as requesters E-mail addresses.

Subscription Modes

Each list user (E-mail address) is subscribed in one of the following modes:

FEED

In this mode, the subscriber receives list messages as they are posted. See the FEED Mode Distribution section for more details.

DIGEST

In this mode, the subscriber periodically receives digest messages. A digest message starts with the Table Of Content - the list of the messages posted, followed by the posted messages themselves. See the DIGEST/INDEX Mode Distribution section for more details.

INDEX

In this mode, the subscriber periodically receives index messages. An index message is the same as the digest Table Of Content, but it does not contain the posted messages themselves. INDEX subscribers can see if they are interested in any posted messages, and use the Web interface to read those messages in the mailing list archive.
See the DIGEST/INDEX Mode Distribution section for more details.

Confirmation Requests

There are several very common problems with most of publicly available mailing lists:

• subscription messages are sent from incorrect addresses, those incorrect addresses are inserted into the subscribers list, and mailing list messages are repeatedly sent to those incorrect or unused addresses.
• list abusers (such as spammers) subscribe nonexistent E-mail addresses just to allow themselves to post on the lists that accept posts from subscribers only.
• using easily forged message headers, some persons can subscribe and unsubscribe another person E-mail addresses.

These and some other problems can be solved using confirmation requests.

Request Confirmations

When this option is selected, the List manager does not fulfill subscription requests immediately. Instead, a confirmation request message is composed and sent to the address that is about to be included or excluded from the subscribers list. The confirmation request contains a unique identifier (Confirmation ID) in its Subject field. When the user receives such a confirmation request, they can simply use the mailer Reply command to confirm the requested operation.