Book details of 'Internet Mailing Lists Navigator for Windows Users/Book and Cd: For Windows Users'

Title	Internet Mailing Lists Navigator for Windows Users/Book and Cd: For Windows Users
Author(s)	Vivian Neou
ISBN	0131939882
Language	English
Published	June 1995
Publisher	Prentice Hall Computer Books

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
For the most part, this is a further edition of "Internet: Mailing Lists" . There is a section of introductory material, and then an annotated "list of lists". The introduction is uneven. The first chapter spends a lot of time on unrelated Internet applications, and at one point appears to confuse Usenet newsgroups with mailing lists. (A different section does provide some distinction.) The exhortation to send administrative messages to the administrative address, rather than the list itself, is very important, but the identification of those addresses is not completely clear. The coverage of administrative commands for the variety of mailing list programs is far better than anything I've seen in any general Internet guide, but the order of presentation is quite odd. Trying to maintain a "list of lists" is a good way to drive yourself mad, but the overall quality seems to be good. (On the other hand, the very first listing I checked had a very narrow subject description, an out-of-date moderator, a long out of date address for the moderator, and subscription and posting addresses for the list that never *were* valid.) The index has improved very slightly since "Internet: Mailing Lists", but still needs a lot of work. In many cases not even the subject descriptions are listed, let alone keywords for the activities of the list. Since there are at least three freely available list resources on the net, and they are bound to be more up to date, why do you need to pay for a published book in regard to mailing lists? In spite of the shortcomings of the introduction, listings and index, the importance of mailing lists themselves boosts the need for this work. Among individual users, probably only the most active would need such a reference. Among trainers, reference desks and support personnel, however, it would likely be used constantly. (The "for Windows Users" part of the title refers to a CD-ROM included with the book. The majority of the files on the disk I received were corrupted or otherwise inaccessible, and so the entire disk was useless.) copyright Robert M. Slade, 1996
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