[Air-L] Looking for reading suggestions

[Amelia Kassel]

The following items may be a starting place but not necessarily directly
meet your requirements. I hope these ideas help in some way.

1. For names of listservs in physics see
https://www.lsoft.com/lists/list_q.html.  You'll find a form that allows you
to search this site / database for discussion lists that use LISTSERV
software.   When keying physics in the box for name of the listserv, there
are 276 lists matches:
https://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?qL=physics&F=L&F=T and 12 for
astrophysics. https://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?qL=astrophysics&F=L&F=T.


Most of these listservs have a small number of subscribers.  You could
subscribe and post questions to any of interest.  

For a history of LISTSERV, see
http://www.lsoft.com/corporate/history-listserv.asp and
http://www.lsoft.com/corporate/legal.asp

2. Perhaps you could glean some information from the ACRL College & Research
Libraries News, Association of College & Research Libraries, INTERNET
RESOURCES: Physics, Vol 61, No 3 (2000) 
https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/19240/22391

3. For Usenet, possibly:

The links when you google site:usenet.com physics could be helpful 
or 
An Introduction to the Physics Newsgroups
https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Administrivia/newsgroups.html

Articles of Related Interest:  
Communities of On-Line Physics Educators
Dan MacIsaac
PHYSICS TEACHER Vol. 38, April 2000
http://physicsed.buffalostate.edu/PHYS-L/TPTApr00art.pdf

The World Wide Web and High Energy Physics
https://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7750/slac-pub-7757.pdf

Amelia Kassel
Research Consultant (retired)
AIIP Member Emeritus
amelia at marketingbase.com

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Subject: [Air-L] Looking for reading suggestions

Dear all in the list,

can anybody suggest good literature about the beginning of the use of
internet *in the physics and astrophysics community*? Special interest is
for  newsgroups, mailing lists, forums.

Thank you in advance to those who will be able to help.

Regards,



Monica Marra


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