Discussion lists How to do research on the Internet Discussion lists One extremely useful resource on the Internet for researchers are email discussion lists. They enable you to communicate with, and ask questions of other people who are interested in similar topics. When you send an email message to an email discussion list it is forwarded to all of the people who are members of that particular list.
Many lists maintain archives of past discussions.
You can use these to find the answers to common questions, or to keep up with the list while not actually becoming a member.