Tue, 4 Oct 1994 18:32:42 -0700 for <socgrad@ucsd>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 18:32:40 -0700
From: Laura Miller <lmiller@weber.ucsd.edu>
To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU
Subject: administrative stuff
I've been meaning for the last week or two to put out a "welcome back"
message, but as usual have gotten lost in all kinds of other stuff.
But now that TR Young has appeared to wake everyone up in a big way,
I figured now is the time to make my annual plug to recruit new
subscribers.

New subscribers come to Socgrad solely through word-of-mouth, so in
the spirit of keeping this forum thriving, I would ask all of you to
inform the new grad students in your departments about it.  Remember,
to subscribe, someone just needs to send a message to listserv@ucsd.edu
and in the body of the message type:  sub socgrad
Anyone with problems getting on, or figuring out how all this works
can email me.

Also, in response to Kit's comments:  I think on occasion a few people
have suggested making Socgrad a newsgroup, but it's never been
seriously talked about.  I think myself would oppose the idea, mainly
because I can't stand using Usenet, and consequently never do.  I
find it's a whole lot more efficient to just delete email I don't want
to read then to deal with the slowness and cumbersomeness of Usenet.
But perhaps that's just me.

Also, some of the "old-timers" on Socgrad no doubt recall a rather
heated debate about whether faculty should be subscribers to
Socgrad.  The last thing I want to do is revive that mess, but
just to let you know how it turned out, I think we decided that while
Socgrad is set up by and for graduate students, no one's going to chase
faculty away, or anyone else who wants to be on for that matter.  In
any case, as far as I can tell, there aren't very many non-student
subscribers.

Hope that answers any bureaucratic questions.  Let me know if there
are others.

      Laura Miller
       lmiller@ucsd.edu