Though Hypermail offers simple archiving, it currently lacks features such as deletion of individual messages, automatic expiration of messages over time, and indexed searching. The Instructional Technology Program has been piloting another web-based mailing list archive service using the MHonArch software, which offers a richer set of features. This site contains the archived mailing list for John Paulin 's Comparative Literature 165 course. Course Newsgroups Newsgroups are posted discussions made available on Usenet, a worldwide network of newsgroups. Newsgroups are organized into subject hierarchies, with the first few letters of the newsgroup name indicating the major subject category and sub-categories represented by a subtopic name.
Many subjects have multiple levels of subtopics.
Newsgroups can be read with Netscape. You can also respond to previous posts, and create new newsgroups. Some newsgroups are moderated by a designated person who decides which postings to allow or to remove. Most newsgroups are unmoderated. Many universities around the world offer newsgroups for individual courses.