Quiz for New SL List Participants

1. You want to subscribe to SPORT-SL.  What address to you need to
send your subscription request to?

     a.  your own teacher
     b.  listserv@latrobe.edu.au
     c.  SPORT-SL@latrobe.edu.au

2. You want to subscribe to SPORT-SL.  If your name is Maria Santos
and your address is msantos@myschool.edu which message do you send?

     a. SUB SPORT-SL
     b. SUB SPORT-SL Maria Santos
     c. SUB SPORT-SL msantos@myschool.edu
     d. SUB SPORT-SL Maria Santos msantos@myschool.edu

3. You want to unsubscribe from SPORT-SL.  If your name is Maria
Santos and your address is msantos@myschool.edu which message do you
send?

     a. UNSUB SPORT-SL
     b. UNSUB SPORT-SL Maria Santos
     c. UNSUB SPORT-SL msantos@myschool.edu
     d. UNSUB SPORT-SL Maria Santos msantos@myschool.edu

4.  When you log onto your computer after being away for 5 days, you
find that you have 120 messages from the SL lists waiting to be read!
What should you do?

     a. take time to read all of them.
     b. look at the subject lines and read only the ones that you think
        might be interesting and delete the rest.
     c. delete all of the messages without reading them.
     d. log off immediately and wait a few more days.

5.  Your course is going to end in a few days and you will not be able
to use your computer account anymore.  What should you do?

     a. Ask your teacher to stop all of your mail.
     b. Send a message to every list that you subscribe to and say
        "Good-bye"!
     c. Send an 'UNSUB' message for each list that you belong to.
     d. Do nothing. You will automatically be unsubscribed from all
        lists.

6.  You see the following message on CHAT-SL.  Why is it a good
message? (Multiple answers, OK!)

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     TO; CHAT-SL
     SUBJECT: Re: It's HOT!

  Ali Mohammed said

  > Even though it is hot in my home country, I think the weather here
  > in New York is worse because the humidity is much higher.

  Here in Japan it is very hot, too.  Japan is very humid in the
  summer, but this summer it has hardly rained.  In some cities the
  water is being rationed!

    Bye! -- Tomoko Arai ("Tomo-chan"), Kyoto
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     a. It is short
     b. It refers to a previous message and continues the conversation
     c. It asks a question
     d. It provides interesting information


 7.  You see the following message on CHAT-SL.  Why is it a poor
message? (Multiple answers, OK!)

======================================================================
     TO; CHAT-SL
     SUBJECT: Hello!

    Hello!  My name is Pedro Santiago and I am an English student.  I
    like to play tennis.  Please write me!
======================================================================

     a. It is too short
     b. It doesn't give any interesting details
     c. It doesn't refer to any previous messages
     d. It doesn't ask a question