At 15:14 9/4/97 EDT, you wrote: |The vast majority of Temple's students commuters who visit campus only when |necessary although there are long-range efforts to change that. The problem |I want to discuss here is the process for finding out what each student's |e-mail address is for those students who are enrolled in a course where the |instructor uses a Listserv list. The instructors prefer to subscribe the |students to their respective lists so that the students don't need to do so. |This is done so that students can receive each message that is sent to the |list. The problem is in finding out which student has which e-mail address. Though PSU has a searchable (by mailto:[log in to unmask] or PH client query) directory, there is NO guarantee that the data or forwarding email address is valid or actually read by the individual. IMHO unless the students subscribe themselves, all bets are off, UNLESS you have stringent procedures for maintaining and using such a centralized directory with centralized userid assignments. I've found that many university users who *switch* email systems don't have proper e-mail configurations and are confused on their own proper email address. -- mailto:[log in to unmask] Tel: +1 814 863 1843 31 Shields Bldg; University Park, PA 16802-1202 USA Powered by: LISTSERV, Eudora, Netscape, mIRC, FreeAgent