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Each month we highlight one Internet, USENET Special Interest Group (SIG), or similar mailing list.

The Internet Scout Project

The Internet Scout Project (http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/index.html) isn't a mailing list, it is a collection of mailing lists, and much much more. It is designed to "show you the way to the best resources on the Internet--then you can choose what's best for you. Librarians and educators do the filtering for you, reading hundreds of announcements each week looking for the online resources most valuable to the education community."

Some of the lists available from this site are:

  • The Scout Report -- "the flagship publication of the Internet Scout Project. Published every Friday both on the web and by email, it provides a fast, convenient way to stay informed of valuable resources on the Internet."

  • The KIDS Report -- "a biweekly publication produced by K-12 students as a resource to other K-12 students. It is an ongoing, cooperative effort of 12 classrooms from around the United States."

  • Net-happenings -- seeks to "distribute announcements about Internet resources to network users and providers, and especially to the K-12 community. It is meant to be comprehensive, therefore postings number between 40-60 per day, and are available via an email distribution list in individual or digest (cumulative) format, or here at the Website as soon as they are posted to the mailing list, with final postings being made by 3pm CST/CDT - Monday-Friday. "

  • Net-Newsletters -- attempts to "combine in one place the best of the Internet's regularly published e-zines, allowing users to read or browse all or none of them from the same mailing list or Website. Users who want to keep current on various aspects of Internet development and technology can choose to subscribe to the mailing list, which sends two or more newsletters together in digest format, or to browse the new Website for today's postings or archives of past postings."

  • NEW-LIST -- a mailing list that provides "the Internet community with prompt notification of the creation of a new mailing list on any given topic."

  • K12 NEWSLETTERS -- combines "in one place the best of the Internet's various K12 newsletters."

You can subscribe to any of the lists above from this page: http://scout18.cs.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/lwgate/listsavail.html