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Lon W. McDaniel
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You can do a lot of things on Internet with just E-mail.

Letīs say that you work as a teacher in a Deaf School where they teach using Deaf Sign Language as the language of instruction.

You would like to discuss with other teachers in other schools in your country or around the world. Teaching in Sign Language is different and you know that your experiences might prove interesting to others and theirs would be of interest to you. Fine, how do you get involved in such a discussion group?

There is a discussion group on Usenet (one of over 10,000 groups there), but you visit it and think it doesnīt really concern teaching issues very much if at all. Donīt give up, all you need is E-mail!

You can join a List server located in Kentucky, USA. The list server (EDUDEAF) has about 500 members from over 100 countries. EDUDEAF is for parents of deaf kids and for people working with deaf kids (teachers etc).

Each E-mail letter that comes in to the list server gets bounced back to all 500 members! In this manner you can discuss with 500 people at the same time using just E-mail.

That list usually results in about 10 letters each day. When the debate gets heated the number of letters increase. You can see the subject of a debate (each E-mail has a subject), and if it doesnīt interest you donīt read it (just delete it).

Here again it is important to remember that you are not alone with your computer. If you send something really stupid out on a list server you could get flamed for it! So, be polite and respect other members of the list if you want them do do so towards you.

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