Personally, I get all the email I can handle.  Perhaps having students
on the list is OK, but I don't think they will find much Advanced
Composition here.

I suggest that as a first step the instructor get the notebook archives
for the past 12 months and send them on to his students.  That should
keep them busy for a while.

Tom Thole
Listowner of 5-6 lists

        Greetings,

        As a first time poster, I'll introduce myself as Mark Haas,
Assistant Professor
        of English at Dakota State University.

        I am writing to ask you all if you would be willing to have a
group of students subscribe
        to this list and ask you about the pleasure and pain of
maintaining a listserv.

        I am teaching a class in Advanced Composition that intends to
introduce the variety
        of electronic writing available.  The students would have to
subscribe and look over
        what you folks are discussing, then 'enter the conversation' by
asking questions or
        whatnot.

        May I have your approval for this venture?  I don't wish for you
to be spammed with
        mail that you would prefer to avoid.  Please let me know your
wishes.

        Thank you,

        Mark Haas
        Dakota State University
        http://www.homepages.dsu.edu/haasm/301/301.htm