Fall 2000 Headlines
Vol. 2, No. 2

UCGIS Co-Sponsor of First International Conference on Geographic Information Science
• Savannah, Georgia, October 28-31, 2000
• See the Web Site: www.giscience.org
UCGIS to Sponsor Symposia on GIScience and Vector-borne Disease

• San Diego, California, January 3-5, 2001
• Goverment, private sector, academia to collaborate
UCGIS Winter Meeting
• Washington, D.C., February 4-6, 2001
• Featuring a congressional breakfast sponsored by Congressmen Kanjorkski (PA)
UCGIS Receives Grants From Intergraph Corporation and GE Smallworld

• Model GIScience undergraduate curriculum
• Next workshop in Tempe, Arizona, February 10-11, 2001
UCGIS Receives Grant from HUD

• GIS-based indicators for urban policy research
• Symposium in Washington, D.C., February 2-3, 2001
Avoiding Listserv Lunacy
• Tips and reminders for improved emailing

Avoiding Listserv Lunacy
by Dawn Wright

• Remember that a listserv allows you not only to receive messages as part of your subscription but to send them to all others subscribers as well. There is no need to ask someone to forward them for you - you already have the power!
• Many people refer to UCGIS email transactions as coming from "the list." UCGIS actually has 12 different UCGIS mailing lists for various levels of communication. They include:
  • all@ucgis.org
  • board@ucgis.org
  • chairs@ucgis.org
  • lead-delegate@ucgis.org
  • delegates @ucgis.org
  • members@ucgis.org
  These are described at www.ucgis.org/faddresses.html.

  There are over 450 people subscribed to "all@ucgis.org" but the majority of them are subscribed to at least 1 or 2 other listservs. For example, the typical UCGIS delegate is subscribed to "all", "delegates", AND "members."

• Because we have hundreds of people subscribed to our lists, the UCGIS community is strongly encouraged to take advantage of the "self-serve" options available via our Lyris listserv software. The easiest way to do this is begin at www.ucgis.org/f2acontac.html and click on the link that says "View, subscribe, or unsubscribe from email listservs via the Web". No password is required, only your primary email address.
• Please remember that Lyris and other kinds of listserv software identify you by your email address, so when attempting to post messages to a UCGIS list you must always use the same email account that matches your subscriptions. And once again, it is likely that you have more than 1 subscription.

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