Note: For information on computer viruses and hoaxes, see
IFL eText: Network Basics

How can email help you in your profession?

How can subscribing to a Newsgroup help you in your profession?

How can subscribing to a Newsgroup help you in school?

Discuss inappropriate uses of email, e.g. chain letters, spamming, or forwarding without permission.

Is it ever  acceptable to play with your identity in electronic communication?  If so, when is it acceptable?  When is it not?
 

In the movie, Mission Impossible, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is a secret agent who uses a Usenet newsgroup to set a trap for Max. (Approx. 40 minutes into the film) setting a trap for Max in a newsgroup.

At the end of the movie, The Net, Angela Bennett (Sandra Bullock) sends an email with attached file to the FBI and saves the day. (Warning: this scene is a spoiler)
 

Getting Started with Email

1. Obtaining a network account
2. Changing your network password
3. Forwarding your YCP email to another provider (currently unavailable)
4. Guidelines for writing and using email
5. Email privacy

1. Welcome To York College Webmail (online manual)
2. Connect to YCP WebMail

Campus Inbox

1. YCP Campus Inbox - Student Instructions -- Directions for using the new YCP digital drop box

1. Netiquette Home Page
2. The Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette by Arlene H. Rinaldi
3. Dear Emily Postnews by Brad Templeton
4. Ten Commandments of Ethical Behavior
5. "Core Rules of Netiquette."  Educom Review 29.5 (1994)
6. Ethics and Etiquette of Internet Resources

1. Electronic Mailing Lists (listservs) Definintion, how to use them
2. What are Usenet Newsgroups?
3. Internet Explorer Newsgroup Setup Instructions
4. Websites about Listservs, Newsgroups and BBs

Spam

1. Webopedia definition of Spam
2. You've Got Spam "Learn what it is, how it works and what you can do to stop it."
3. Intelligencer Journal. Spam slam. (7/19/2003) "At home or work, unsolicited e-mail is clogging inboxes, costing computer users time, money."
   

Reserve Reading at Circulation Services

1. James, Phil.  Official Netscape Communicator 4 Book. Research Triangle Park, NC: Ventana, 1997.
2. Schuyler, Michael.  "Listserv Redux."  Computers In Libraries Feb. 1999, 28-31.

Use and communicate information effectively 

Access the Internet, electronic mail and other forms of electronic communication

Use online etiquette
 

"Through electronic mail and bulletin boards (called "newsgroups" in internet lingo), you can use a different kind of resource: a worldwide supply of knowledgeable people, some of whom are certain to share your interests, no matter now obscure. It's easy to find a discussion group on almost any topic, or to find some people interested in forming a new discussion group.  While free advice is often worth what you pay for it, there are also lots of well-informed experts who are more than willing to be helpful."

Skills

Use basic email functions

Apply netiquette

Outcomes

Effectively communicate electronically