1. First, you need to subscribe. To do this, you will need to use e-mail, but you are an old pro at that, so it should present no problem. To subscribe, send an e-mail message to the address as follows:
LISTSERV@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU
and put nothing in the subject line. In the body of the message, write:
SUBSCRIBE FLTEACH FIRSTNAME LASTNAME
(be sure and put in YOUR first and last name and not the words "firstname" and "lastname").
2. Then send this message, without anything else in the message field and without appending a signature file. You will shortly receive a confirmation message that will ask you to respond, thus making a complete circuit between your computer account and the FLTEACH account at Buffalo.
3. Once this connection is established, you will receive a Welcome
message. This message is very important, and you need to keep it.
I suggest putting it in a file in your e-mail account or on your computer.
The Welcome message will give you all sorts of useful information about
how to send and receive FLTEACH messages, netiquette, appropriate postings,
and other valuable data including how to unsubscribe from the list. Pay
particular attention to the mail options and set them according to your
own situation. You will need to consider the size of your e-mail account
and the frequency with which you access your mail. FLTEACH often generates
up to 100 messages a day, so if you do not read them with regularity, your
mailbox can fill up, resulting in all mail being bounced from your account.
In addition, the FLTEACH bounces return to the moderators' account, and
that makes us ve-r-r-r-r-r-r-ry unhappy. We eventually set your account
to NOMAIL or you get deleted; either way, you can't complete your assignment.
Hence the need to consider carefully your mail settings from the beginning.
2. After following a thread for a week , summarize the salient points and present them to your foreign language methods class. Decide where you stand in the issue as well and include a statement to that effect.
3. Make a printout of the messages you have collected on the topic
and present this along with your summary and position statement to your
instructor.