Ch. Montgomery et P. Keenan, FACILITATING FACULTY COMMUNICATIONS USING AN ELECTRONIC BULLETIN BOARD TO STORE AND ORGANIZE LISTSERV MESSAGES, Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 83(2), 1995, pp. 234-237
The Center for Academic Informatics of the Medical College of Pennsylv
ania and Hahnemann University uses BULLETIN, a public-domain bulletin
board system for VMS, to facilitate communication between our faculty
and staff and their colleagues at other institutions. In conjunction w
ith the VAX electronic mail program, BULLETIN can store and organize m
essages from Internet listserv mailing lists. The software allows us t
o set up individual folders within BULLETIN for each list of interest
to our users. This means that they do not have to sift through ''lists
of lists'' in order to find the ones that coincide with their interes
ts. Another significant advantage is that users' electronic mailboxes
do not become cluttered with postings from a variety of lists, interfe
ring with their ability to read and respond to their ''real'' electron
ic mail. Yet they can still post to lists, and the posting will be sen
t from their user name and electronic address. BULLETIN also offers a
natural structure for setting up interest groups where local users can
post announcements, questions, and answers.