[English] RE: Hit: Gifted Students in the Classroom

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

Hi all,

Have had a very humerous question regarding my recent post, 
"Hit: Gifted Students in the Classroom" asking why one would
want to hit our gifted kids. So, perhaps one should explain the
TARGET-HIT convention. Briefly it was an invention of the popular
LM_NET mailing list and basically means a summary of list responses.

It's grown into quite a useful mailing list convention, especially for
very busy mailing lists, and should, by rights, be in upper case letters
in the email subject line. So, please don't hit any gifted school kids :-)

Perhaps one can do no better than let LM_NET explain in their own words:

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LM_NET "Where School Librarians Connect"

Educational List Award Winner: List address, LM_NET at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU

By Mike Eisenberg and Peter Milbury, LM_NET Co-Moderators

We do not believe we are overstating things when we boast that LM_NET is 
the most successful educational e-mail list in the world, maybe the most 
successful e-mail list in the world, period. We know that is a pretty bold 
statement considering the wide range and number of e-mail groups on the 
Internet. Nevertheless, we are certain that LM_NET would match up to the 
very best of them based on some very impressive attributes:

Members – LM_NET now has more than 16,000 subscribed members from every 
state in the United States and over 65 countries – from Azerbaijan to 
Zambia. There are also thousands of other people who are not officially 
subscribed but access LM_NET through the posted archives, messages 
forwarded to local e-mail lists, or by some other means.

Volume – LM_NET is very busy (just ask any member) with 50 or more 
messages a day. Just think, 50-plus messages traveling to 16,000-plus 
members. That is close to a million LM_NET messages floating around the 
Internet every day!

Community – LM_NET is more than just a mailing list; it's a community. 
LM_NET is a virtual community of people dedicated to improving education 
through school library and information work. LM_NET members support one 
another every day but particularly come together in times of difficulty. 
Examples include the Los Angeles earthquake in 1994, the tragedies of 
September 11, and the Columbine High School shootings.

Scope – LM_NET covers a wide range of interests, all related to library 
and information work in education. Recent postings included reading 
comprehension (computer vs. books/print), comic books in the library, 
flexible scheduling support, someone looking for the name of a story, 
computer tampering, hoax Web sites, and online course recommendations.

Substance – LM_NET does more than touch the surface of topics. The 
interactions result in in-depth treatments of the major concerns, issues 
and themes of library media work. For example, one of LM_NET's most 
successful inventions is the "Target-Hit" convention developed to 
facilitate responding to a request for lots of feedback on a topic. If 
someone posts a "TARGET->" then members know to respond directly to that 
person, who will later post all the responses together in a "HIT->". (snip)

<http://www.lsoft.com/customers/lm_net.asp>  

Cheers all
Stephen Loosley
English List Moderator
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