> If anyone else has encountered other ways of citing discussions
> on this or other scholarly lists, please share this with us!
For what it's worth, according to:
[Andrew Harnack and Gene Kleppinger.] "Citing the Sites: MLA-Style
Guidelines and Models for Documenting Internet Sources." Version 1.3.
<i>Beyond the MLA Handbook: Documenting Sources on the Internet.</i>
1996. <http://www.csc.eku.edu/honors/beyond-mla#citing_sites>
(22 June 1998). [pfs: cited in the form they recommend!]
(which contains '...guidelines...based upon Janice Walker s "MLA-Style
Citations of Electronic Sources"...Vers. 1.0...revised as recommended
by...Harnack and...Kleppinger.')
We should cite listserv messages thus:
6. Listserv messages
To cite information posted on listservs, provide the following
information:
the author's name (if known)
the author's e-mail address, enclosed in angle brackets
the subject line from the posting in quotation marks
the date of publication
the address of the listserv, enclosed in angle brackets
the date of access in parentheses
Model:
Seabrook, Richard H. C. <[log in to unmask]> "Community and Progress."
22 Jan. 1994. <[log in to unmask]> (22 Jan.
1994).
To cite a file archived at a listserv or Web address, provide
the following information after the publication date:
the list address (rather than a particular message-author's
address) as the source of a list message, enclosed in
angle brackets
the appropriate address for the list's archive (indicated by
via), enclosed in angle brackets
the date of access in parentheses
Model:
Seabrook, Richard H. C. <[log in to unmask]> "Community and Progress."
22 Jan. 1994. <[log in to unmask]>
via <[log in to unmask]> (29 Jan. 1994).
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