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Finding a needle ... (Part II) http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/10b.html
Use the addresses in column two when sending messages to the other members of the
discussion lists, but DO NOT send your subscription requests to this address!! Your mail
will be forwarded to all members. Chances are that nothing will happen, while
everybody will see how sloppy you are. So, you subscribe by sending a command to a
LISTSERV. The method is similar to what we did when subscribing to Infonets in
Chapter 7. If your name is Jens Jensen, and you want to subscribe to CAPES L, send
this message to a LISTSERV:
To: (enter a preferred LISTSERV address here)
Subject: (You can write anything here. Will be ignored.)
Text: SUB CAPES L Jens Jensen
When your subscription has been registered, a confirmation text will be returned to you.
Note that some mailing lists will ask you to return a subscription confirmation before
accepting. From now on, all messages sent to the list will be forwarded to your mailbox.
(Send "SIGNOFF CAPES L" to this address to unsubscribe from the mailing list.) Some
lists will forward each message to you upon receipt. Others will send a periodic digest
(weekly, monthly, etc.). To send a message to HIRIS L, send to the address in column
two above. Send to
HIRIS L@ICINECA.CINECA.IT
Review the following example. Most mailing lists will accept these commands.
Example: Subscription to the China list
CHINA NN is listed as follows in the List of Lists:
CHINA NN listserv@asuvm.inre.asu.edu (Peered)
China News Digest (Global News)
You can send your subscription request to listserv@asuvm.inre.asu.edu. Scandinavians
may subscribe by mail to listserv@fiport.funet.fi. North American users can also send
their mail to listserv@listserv.nodak.edu. If your name is Winston Hansen, write the
following command in the TEXT of the message
SUB CHINA NN Winston Hansen
When you want to leave CHINA NN, send a cancellation message like this to the
LISTSERV where you subscribed:
To: listserv@asuvm.inre.asu.edu
Subject: (nothing here)
SIGNOFF CHINA NN
If you subscribed through listserv@fiport.funet.fi, sending the SIGNOFF command to
listserv@asuvm.inre.asu.edu will get you nowhere. Send to listserv@fiport.funet.fi.
Never send the SIGNOFF command to the discussion list itself! Always send to the
LISTSERV.
Note: If the mailing list has a web page with a public message archive, then it may
be easiest to subscribe from this page. At the CHINA NN list archive page, just hit "Join
or leave the list (or change settings)."
Searching mailing list log files
Many mailing lists maintain logs of messages sent through the list. Search commands
differ both by mailing list system, and version number. Check with the administrator or
other members of your lists about how to search these resources. To search mailing list
log files controlled by listserv@listserv.nodak.edu, send an email with the following
command in the text of your mail:
search in
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