E-Mail Lists In Neurology
In an e-mail list, a member sends his message to a central
computer, and then that computer distributes the message to everyone
on the e-mail list. Often, daily messages can be consolidated into a
digest f ormat, so that the total amount of all mail received is
limited to one piece of mail per day. An e-mail list is an example of
"push" technology, where many of the participants can take a more
passive role in acquiring information, and the information is pushed
towards them. For Child Neurology, e-mail has become a way to
interact with busy, or geographically dispersed, child neurologists
in a facile manner. Currently, its most organized form is the
Child-Neuro e-mail list. The Child-Neuro e-mail list has ov er 900
subscribers in 53 countries. This has been supported in part by the
Child Neurology Society and has shown steady growth through the last
several years. Subscriptions to the list can be obtained by sending
an email to Mack@waisman.wisc.edu
or Leber@umich.edu.