Like the above, but list owner plays a reduced role in list management. The student member list is automatically updated nightly by the registrar. In a newsgroup, messages are posted on a central electronic bulletin board. This arrangement is useful in providing information that needs to remain in place for the duration of the quarter. A newsgroup can be used for a single course with very specific interests and open only to UC Davis students or it can be made available for anyone connected to the Internet anywhere in the world.
Some courses use both a mailing list and newsgroup.
The mailing list is useful for announcements and class assignments, whereas the newsgroup is for the archiving of interesting information gathered by the students or the instructor. You can add the newsgroup address to the mailing list so that any message sent to the mailing list is automatically archived on the newsgroup. Netscape is the recommended software and is part of the campus Bovine Online software package. For information on creating course webpages, see our Class Webpage Assistance site. IRC permits real-time interaction over the Internet among several people.