13. What is the response time for a listserv reply?
That is kind of a tough one because think about sending a letter.
If you send a letter to someone you are not going to receive a response
back until that person reads your letter, and writes a letter in
response, and mails it. And in theory you can sometimes put a letter
in the mailbox and generally the next day somebody will get it,
but the part you can't measure is how long it is going to take them
to read it and send it back to you. So on the Internet if you send
a message to a listserv, people can get it within the minute. But
you are not going to get a reply back until they write up their
response and send it, which could be in another minute, so within
two minutes you could have a response. But generally my students,
when they sent questions, received some type of response by the
next day. But that varied depending on the time of the year, or
if it was over a weekend or whatever.
