CIS-L was created in March, 1994, and had 950 members when it was migrated to the Web in January, 1998. CIS-L is an academic and practitioner forum for discussions on careers in information systems, both from a business and computer science perspectives. Before it moved to the Web 50% were academic members, 40% were practitioners and 10% were students (BS,MS,Ph.D.). The discussion varies from career trends, curriculum, placement, (but not job openings or applications, nor any sort of commercial messages), etc. Also, people bring their professional problems and look for suggestions from other members in a variety of topics. To see the last survey done as a mailing list of members' interests and background send to CIS-FSERV@UBE.UBALT.EDU the one-line message: SEND GENERAL.SURVEY, or click here. CIS-L also maintained a data repository to facilitate data exchange through e-mail and gopher. See CIS-L Fileserver for more details. This service will be maintained with the existing files for one more year (up to March 1999).
CIS-L is a web conference board located at a public institution. Therefore CIS-L has its use restricted to scientific and professional knowledge exchange -- no commercial posting is allowed. If you need to know precisely what is and what is not allowed please send to FILESERV@UBE.UBALT.EDU the message:
SEND NETWORK_POLICY.CREN
SEND NETWORK_POLICY.NSFNET
The first file was the acceptable use policy of the Bitnet, and the second of the Internet. In case of doubt of the nature of a posting please contact the CIS-L Editor at abento@ubmail.ubalt.edu . These policies are used as basic rules of conduct, although neither are more in force in the Internet.
How to become a member of CIS-L on the Web?
To become a member of CIS-L on the Web you need to register (free) and obtain an user name and password. You can do this right here by selecting register or going to the URL http://business.ubalt.edu/CIS-L/join.html
We advise, for whomever has less than one year experience in the Internet, to take at your own pace the Patrick Crispen's Internet Roadmap course and the Internet Tourbus.
How to
resign from CIS-L on the Web?
You cannot yet leave automatically CIS-L on the Web, for security reasons. I plan to implement this feature by March, 1998. To leave CIS-L please send an e-mail message to the CIS-L Editor at abento@ubmail.ubalt.edu with the subject: Remove me from CIS-L with your username in the body of the message.
To post a message you need to login first. You can then start a new thread or post a follow-up message to the CIS-L on the Web page. You can read the messages posted on CIS-L without login at http://business.ubalt.edu/CIS-L/. For more information on posting on the CIS-L on the Web please read the CIS-L FAQ.How to post a message on the CIS-L web page]?
CIS-L connection to on-line job services CIS-L members have requested frequently for references on on-line job search sources. What follows is a selected list of references. If you need more, look at the last two items of this collection.
For additional information on CIS-L services, please send e-mail
to abento@ubmail.ubalt.edu
, or regular mail to:
This is also a frequent request from members -- information on career information, not only job listings. This is not so easy to find on the net.
CIS-L Career references
Comments, problems and suggestions
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This page is maintained by Al Bento who can be reached at abento@ubmail.ubalt.edu . This page was last updated on 12 January, 1998. Although we will attempt to keep this information accurate, we can not guarantee the accuracy of the information provided. Users are advised to look at our disclaimer.