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Mary's NET11 Blog

This blog is in the form of a 'learning log' for my online studies @ Curtin for NET11.

Saturday Reflections (Part III)

Saturday, March 17, 2007

Week 3 is already over - wow time flies when you are studying! :)

This week I delved into the world of Email Lists, Newsgroups, ICQ and IRC.

Email Lists - well the more I read and learn about Email Lists the more they start to interest me, I'm sure if I found one which stuck to a specific topic it would be great to join it and follow along. However before I go joining any Email lists I need to get my inbox set up and organised so I won't be overwhelmed with Email list messages.

Using newsgroups is one form of Internet communications that is new to me, I had known they existed, but wasn't interested in finding out the what, why and how of using them.
Currently I'm following 4 different groups -
  • Blogger help group
  • rec.food.recipes
  • comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
  • rec.sport.cricket

I found two of the groups through Google Groups, and the other two groups through my ISP's news server. I chose groups that had a high participation level as the discussion and topics will (hopefully) move along quite quickly and keep me interested.

I'll continue to follow the postings in these groups for a few more days, and then post on one of them.

I did manage to chat with a fellow student on ICQ! It was great chatting with Belinda, and we shared thoughts on how NET11 was going, compared studying online to on campus, and chatted about study in general. Although ICQ was the first instant messaging program, I must say I prefer the layout and usability of Yahoo! messenger or the very simply styled Gtalk.

IRC - As I suggested earlier in the week I'm not going to try IRC - too many variables for me to feel completely safe trying this type of 'open' Internet communication.

- Mary

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