Thanks, Holly, for all your work! I wonder if it was an assignment to post to a listserv in some class. Back in the late 90s, I used to require my students to join a listserv (I teach internet writing), but I knew better even then than to ask them to post to it. Many did anyway, barely ever even understanding that the idea was to *learn* about language used in communities rather than *spout* language that they thought would enlighten the list. If the students are reading our discussions about them, they should understand that the first requirement of being on a listserv is to read through archives if you don't have enough time to wait and lurk. You're not *contributing* to a conversation if you are just dropping information with no context. In the meantime, I had started putting their email addresses on my delete filter, but I don't want to automatically delete every email that comes in from Korea!! :-D. Deanya On Monday, June 12, 2006, at 01:47 PM, Holly Kruse wrote:

I have been dealing with this group of students in Korea -- as they identify themselves when sent the form email message asking them to explain who they are and why they want to join air-l -- on the subscription approval front for months. My sense with many of them a few months ago was that they were in a class (one that met on Tuesday, because that's when the requests for approval would show up in my mailbox) for which they are supposed to subscribe to the list, and then post to the list. My impression may, of course, have been quite wrong.

As a reminder, let me just add that anyone who wants to subscribe to air-l is sent a message to which they must respond before they are added. The idea is mainly to establish that these are real people who want to subscribe, not the results of mass-subscribing bots. The individuals in question all responded, and said variously that they were students in Korea, in many cases identifying the university, some saying that they were Chinese students studying in Korea, and that they wanted to join the list to learn more about the internet, or that they were in a class about the internet and wanted to join the list.

There are a few different ways in which this recent problem can be handled, and we on the exec should be able to come up with a fairly satisfactory solution very soon.

Holly

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