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To: "Multiple recipients of COMGRADS" 
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According to the CIOS Hotlines page, Comgrads was created:

"For graduate and undergraduate students in communication studies 
interested in exchanging ideas on research and teaching, developing 
resources for the graduate school and employment application process, 
and creating a national and international student network."

That sounds like the mission statement that was originally written by 
Glenn Geiser-Getz (and others?) back in the early-90's when ComGrads 
started. I think there is a more complete description that comes to 
people in their subscription message, but I could be wrong there.

Is this (email listservs) an antiquated method for networking now? Good 
question! My gut reaction is to cry, "Say it isn't so!" But I'm not 
sure. I do think it is still useful, just not as novel (and thus 
attended to) as it once was. I think in this case what we've seen is a 
failure of one particular list to keep perpetuating itself by attracting 
new members. That's critical with a list targeting a group of people in 
a transitional state.

Norm



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