SC - citing e-mail conversations

[Gaylin J. Walli]

Vicente wrote:

>(wondering how to cite e-mail list discussions in a bibliography)

There are several ways to do it, depending on the school for which
you are writing. Some good places to begin looking would be in the
style manual for:

The Chicago Manual of Style
The Modern Language Association
The American Psychological Association

Essentially, most of these organizations want you to document
what it was that you discussed and when you discussed it. If
it's possible to retrieve that information in an archive, then they
would typically like to see that too. Here's an example of
something close to what the American Psychological Association
would have you do:

    Alizaunde. (1994) _Rob Peter to Feed Paul: Halving Feast Costs
    (How to Serve More Food for Less Money and Improve the Dream Too)_.
    Available via the World Wide Web at
    http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/recipes/rprf.sca.feasts.html, as it was
    originally posted to the rec.org.sca newsgroup on Tue, 03 May 94 17:26:54
    EDT.

Mine doesn't exactly follow any one style guide (mostly because
I have issues with certain formatting problems the guides
impose) but I think if you copied something like this you'd be
pretty safe.

Iasmin De Cordoba, gwalli at ptc.com or iasmin at home.com