# Announcements of general interest within the Comserve community

Comserve/CIOS Staff Office (SUPPORT@RPITSVM.BITNET)
Fri, 22 Oct 1993 10:01:37 EDT

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    Message-Id: <199310222324.AA01295@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de>

    Date:         Fri, 22 Oct 1993 10:01:37 EDT

    From: Comserve/CIOS Staff Office <SUPPORT@RPITSVM.BITNET>

    Subject:      Announcements of general interest within the Comserve community

    To: Multiple recipients of list INTERCOM <INTERCOM@RPITSVM.BITNET>

InterCom: A newsletter of the
Communication Institute for Online Scholarship

Three items in this issue:

1. Spotlight: Six files from Comserve's database
provide syllabi and course materials for courses on
telecommunications, computers and ethics, and
computer mediated communication.

2. InterCom announcments reach 6,000 people -- how to submit material

3. How to cancel a Comserve hotline subscription

NOTE: Please do not use a "reply" function to respond to an item in
this file. If you wish to respond, leave your mail reading software and
address your message explicitly. For example, if you wish to send a
command to Comserve, leave the environment of your mail reading software
and address your message by hand to Comserve@Rpitsvm (Bitnet) or
Comserve@vm.its.rpi.edu (Internet).

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Spotlight: Resources in Comserve's Database

Six files were recently added to the Syllabus category of
Comserve's library (database).

Contributor: Robert Higgins (Ontario Inst. for Studies in Ed.)

File: EdApp Syllabus

This file contains the syllabus for a course entitled
"Educational Applications of Computer Mediated
Communication," which is a survey of the use of computers
for human communication in educational contexts. The
course is conducted entirely online.

Contributor: Robert Higgins (Ontario Inst. for Studies in Ed.)

File: EdApp Material

This file contains course materials that accompany the
syllabus in "EdApp Syllabus."

Contributor: Robert Higgins (Ontario Inst. for Studies in Ed.)

File: ResCMC Syllabus

This file contains a syllabus for a course entitled
"Research Issues in Computer-Mediated Communication,"
which examines research perspectives and key issues in the
study of computer-mediated communication for educational
purposes. This course is conducted entirely online.

Contributor: Robert Higgins (Ontario Inst. for Studies in Ed.)

File: ResCMC Material

This file contains course materials that accompany the
syllabus in "ResCMC Syllabus."

Contributor: Greg Newby (U. of IL/Urbana-Champaign)

File: Telecomm Syllabus

This file contains a course outline and bibliography for a
course entitled "Telecommunications," whose goal is to
provide the student with conceptual and practical expertise
as an information networker.

Contributor: Richard England (Empire State College SUNY)

File: CompEth Syllabus Richard England

This file contains a syllabus for a 4 credit course called
"Computers, Ethics, and Society." This course combines
on-line and off-line course- work to examine the use and
effect of computers in our society in terms of potential
social problems and prevailing moral and legal guidelines.

Use the send command to retrieve the files:

Send EdApp Syllabus
Send EdApp Material
Send ResCMC Syllabus
Send ResCMC Material
Send Telecomm Syllabus
Send CompEth Syllabus

Users of the Easycom client program can retrieve the files
using functions available on the "Database" submenu.

For more information about locating resources in Comserve's
database of over 3,400 files, send this message to Comserve:

Help Topics Database

NOTE: Please do not use a "reply" function to respond to an item in
this file. If you wish to respond, leave your mail reading software and
address your message explicitly. For example, if you wish to send a
command to Comserve, leave the environment of your mail reading software
and address your message by hand to Comserve@Rpitsvm (Bitnet) or
Comserve@vm.its.rpi.edu (Internet).

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InterCom Interconnects All Comserve Hotlines,
Provides Efficient Method for
Distributing Announcements of General Interest

Comserve's hotline system consists of (a) a suite of more than 25
public hotlines supporting free discussion in areas of communication
scholarship and education, (b) four one-way news channels, and (c)
fourteen private hotlines. Most individuals subscribe to five Comserve
hotlines; therefore, many are likely to be inconvenienced if copies of
an announcement are sent to multiple hotline addresses. This problem
can be avoided by using the InterCom channel when you wish to distribute
announcements of general interest.

The InterCom channel ties together all public Comserve hotlines,
providing a way to reach most of Comserve's 7,000 member user community
with a single note (a message to InterCom reaches approximately 6,000
individuals). If you wish to announce a conference, issue a call for
papers, or distribute other information that might be of general
interest to scholars and students in fields related to communication,
rhetoric, mass communication, journalism, social linguistics, etc., send
it to Comserve's staff at Support@rpitsvm (Bitnet) or
Support@vm.its.rpi.edu (Internet) and request that it be distributed
over InterCom.

For a list of all other Comserve public hotlines that are available,
send this command to Comserve at the address given at the top of this
issue:

Show hotlines

For detailed information about many services, commands, and
facilities related to Comserve hotline services, send this message to
Comserve at the address given at the top of this issue:

Help Topics Hotlines

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How to Cancel a Comserve Hotline Subscription

The Comserve system governs access to more than 25 public hotlines
and provides special commands and facilities to make it possible to
treat these hotlines as subdivisions within a coherent structure.

To review the status of your subscriptions, send this command to
Comserve:

Show subscriptions

To cancel one hotline subscription, send this command to Comserve:

Dropout place_name_of_hotline_here

for example:

Dropout InterPer

To cancel all your subscriptions at once, send this command to
Comserve:

Dropout All

For more information about commands and functions related to
Comserve's hotline system, send this message to Comserve:

Help Topics Hotlines

To review other categories of help information, send Comserve
this message:

Help Topics

Remember: Do not use a "reply" function to send these messages to
Comserve. Leave your mail reading software and address
your message explicitly. Comserve's address was given at
the start of this issue, just below the table of contents.

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