Listservs

During the course of this assignment, I have subscribed to three listservs. All of them pertain to movies in some way, but they have little to do with my actual subject: the academy awards. This was one of the difficulties I faced during this assignment. I couldn't really find anything that was about the Academy Awards.

In fact, there were very few that pertained to movies or cinema at all. One of the listservs that I found talked about Matt Damon...a lot. Another one only talked about foreign films. The only problem with that was that it had one subscriber. A couple of listservs that I subscribed to were actually interesting. One of them talked about obscure films. That one was really interesting because I learned about some films that I never knew about. That one is known as "Cinema Obscura."

Another listserv, "Movie Mania," had very few subscribers, but it was one of the only listservs that I could actually use. It listed the titles of each subscribers favorite movie. Some of them were nominated or won Academy Awards, so it allowed me to do a little research for some of the titles. Most were simply mainstream films that little to do with my subject.

Overall, doing this assignment was fairly difficult. I had trouble after I subscribed to each listerv. For some unknown reason, after I subcribed, I was unable to find the archives for each listerv. I'm not sure if they disappeared or if I did something wrong. I would log in, and try to access the archives, but each time I got a message saying that I was unauthorized to access the archives.