From rkimsey@fenrir.ces.ncsu.edu Sat Oct 4 12:07:07 1997 Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 18:17:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Ray Kimsey To: sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu Subject: Major change in SANET-MG The Sanet-MG mail list has been moved from an almanac maintained list to a majordomo maintained list to add some new features including a digest format. Sending mail to the list is the same as always. See message footer for other instructions or to receive more help on majordomo commands: email majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu with the one word comand "help". -- Ray Kimsey Ray_Kimsey@ncsu.edu "Selfishness has never been admired..." Phone: 919.515.8449 C.S. Lewis Fax: 919.515.3777 Raleigh, NC USA http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/rkimsey To Unsubscribe: Email majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu with "unsubscribe sanet-mg". To Subscribe to Digest: Email majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu with "subscribe sanet-mg-digest". From san@nal.usda.gov Fri Oct 3 23:43:38 1997 Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 14:52:18 -0400 (EDT) From: "Andy Clark, SAN Coordinator" To: sanet-ad@ces.ncsu.edu Subject: About Majordomo (LONG, but important) SANetters: As you have seen from a previous message, sanet-mg has been moved from an ALMANAC system to a MAJORDOMO system. While this move is *invisible* to the daily operations of sanet, it does change the way that you, the subscriber, will send commands such as the UNSUBSCRIBE command. THIS IS IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT SANET-MG. YOU MAY WANT TO PRINT IT AND/OR SAVE IT. You will need it in the future. This information replaces what you received when you first subscribed to sanet. In addition to my few comments below, I am also forwarding the help file from Majordomo. I retrieved this help message from majordomo, by sending mail to Majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu with a line saying help in the message body. WE ALL KNOW by now that there is one e-mail address which sends mail to all subscribers, and this has not changed: sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu There is another address for all other interactions with the big computer that runs sanet. That big computer is now at majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu So, TO UNSUBSCRIBE from sanet-mg, you now must send a message to: majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu In the BODY of the message, type ONLY: unsubscribe sanet-mg You may wish to subscribe to our digest list (sanet-mg-digest). The digest list stores all posts to sanet-mg and distributes them once per day. If you are already subscribed to sanet, you will need to unsubscribe and resubscribe to the digest. This can be done in one message: Send a message to: majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu In the BODY of the message type: unsubscribe sanet-mg subscribe sanet-mg-digest PLEASE read, print, save the help message below. If you have any question, feel free to contact me directly. Andy Clark, Ph.D. SAN Coordinator c/o AFSIC, Room 304 National Agricultural Library 10301 Baltimore Ave. Beltsville, MD 20705-2351 PH: 301-504-6425 FAX: 301-504-6409 san@nal.usda.gov http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/san/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 08:37:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu To: san@nal.usda.gov Subject: Majordomo results -- >>>> help This help message is being sent to you from the Majordomo mailing list management system at Majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu. This is version 1.94.3 of Majordomo. If you're familiar with mail servers, an advanced user's summary of Majordomo's commands appears at the end of this message. Majordomo is an automated system which allows users to subscribe and unsubscribe to mailing lists, and to retrieve files from list archives. You can interact with the Majordomo software by sending it commands in the body of mail messages addressed to "Majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu". Please do not put your commands on the subject line; Majordomo does not process commands in the subject line. You may put multiple Majordomo commands in the same mail message. Put each command on a line by itself. If you use a "signature block" at the end of your mail, Majordomo may mistakenly believe each line of your message is a command; you will then receive spurious error messages. To keep this from happening, either put a line starting with a hyphen ("-") before your signature, or put a line with just the word end on it in the same place. This will stop the Majordomo software from processing your signature as bad commands. Here are some of the things you can do using Majordomo: I. FINDING OUT WHICH LISTS ARE ON THIS SYSTEM To get a list of publicly-available mailing lists on this system, put the following line in the body of your mail message to Majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu: lists Each line will contain the name of a mailing list and a brief description of the list. To get more information about a particular list, use the "info" command, supplying the name of the list. For example, if the name of the list about which you wish information is "demo-list", you would put the line info demo-list in the body of the mail message. II. SUBSCRIBING TO A LIST Once you've determined that you wish to subscribe to one or more lists on this system, you can send commands to Majordomo to have it add you to the list, so you can begin receiving mailings. To receive list mail at the address from which you're sending your mail, simply say "subscribe" followed by the list's name: subscribe demo-list If for some reason you wish to have the mailings go to a different address (a friend's address, a specific other system on which you have an account, or an address which is more correct than the one that automatically appears in the "From:" header on the mail you send), you would add that address to the command. For instance, if you're sending a request from your work account, but wish to receive "demo-list" mail at your personal account (for which we will use "jqpublic@my-isp.com" as an example), you'd put the line subscribe demo-list jqpublic@my-isp.com in the mail message body. Based on configuration decisions made by the list owners, you may be added to the mailing list automatically. You may also receive notification that an authorization key is required for subscription. Another message will be sent to the address to be subscribed (which may or may not be the same as yours) containing the key, and directing the user to send a command found in that message back to Majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu. (This can be a bit of extra hassle, but it helps keep you from being swamped in extra email by someone who forged requests from your address.) You may also get a message that your subscription is being forwarded to the list owner for approval; some lists have waiting lists, or policies about who may subscribe. If your request is forwarded for approval, the list owner should contact you soon after your request. Upon subscribing, you should receive an introductory message, containing list policies and features. Save this message for future reference; it will also contain exact directions for unsubscribing. If you lose the intro mail and would like another copy of the policies, send this message to Majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu: intro demo-list (substituting, of course, the real name of your list for "demo-list"). III. UNSUBSCRIBING FROM MAILING LISTS Your original intro message contains the exact command which should be used to remove your address from the list. However, in most cases, you may simply send the command "unsubscribe" followed by the list name: unsubscribe demo-list (This command may fail if your provider has changed the way your address is shown in your mail.) To remove an address other than the one from which you're sending the request, give that address in the command: unsubscribe demo-list jqpublic@my-isp.com In either of these cases, you can tell Majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu to remove the address in question from all lists on this server by using "*" in place of the list name: unsubscribe * unsubscribe * jqpublic@my-isp.com IV. FINDING THE LISTS TO WHICH AN ADDRESS IS SUBSCRIBED To find the lists to which your address is subscribed, send this command in the body of a mail message to Majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu: which You can look for other addresses, or parts of an address, by specifying the text for which Majordomo should search. For instance, to find which users at my-isp.com are subscribed to which lists, you might send the command which my-isp.com Note that many list owners completely or fully disable the "which" command, considering it a privacy violation. V. FINDING OUT WHO'S SUBSCRIBED TO A LIST To get a list of the addresses on a particular list, you may use the "who" command, followed by the name of the list: who demo-list Note that many list owners allow only a list's subscribers to use the "who" command, or disable it completely, believing it to be a privacy violation. VI. RETRIEVING FILES FROM A LIST'S ARCHIVES Many list owners keep archives of files associated with a list. These may include: - back issues of the list - help files, user profiles, and other documents associated with the list - daily, monthly, or yearly archives for the list To find out if a list has any files associated with it, use the "index" command: index demo-list If you see files in which you're interested, you may retrieve them by using the "get" command and specifying the list name and archive filename. For instance, to retrieve the files called "profile.form" (presumably a form to fill out with your profile) and "demo-list.9611" (presumably the messages posted to the list in November 1996), you would put the lines get demo-list profile.form get demo-list demo-list.9611 in your mail to Majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu. VII. GETTING MORE HELP To contact a human site manager, send mail to Majordomo-Owner@ces.ncsu.edu. To contact the owner of a specific list, send mail to that list's approval address, which is formed by adding "-approval" to the user-name portion of the list's address. For instance, to contact the list owner for demo-list@ces.ncsu.edu, you would send mail to demo-list-approval@ces.ncsu.edu. To get another copy of this help message, send mail to Majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu with a line saying help in the message body. VIII. COMMAND SUMMARY FOR ADVANCED USERS In the description below items contained in []'s are optional. When providing the item, do not include the []'s around it. Items in angle brackets, such as
, are meta-symbols that should be replaced by appropriate text without the angle brackets. It understands the following commands: subscribe [
] Subscribe yourself (or
if specified) to the named . unsubscribe [
] Unsubscribe yourself (or
if specified) from the named . "unsubscribe *" will remove you (or
) from all lists. This _may not_ work if you have subscribed using multiple addresses. get Get a file related to . index Return an index of files you can "get" for . which [
] Find out which lists you (or
if specified) are on. who Find out who is on the named . info Retrieve the general introductory information for the named . intro Retrieve the introductory message sent to new users. Non-subscribers may not be able to retrieve this. lists Show the lists served by this Majordomo server. help Retrieve this message. end Stop processing commands (useful if your mailer adds a signature). Commands should be sent in the body of an email message to "Majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu". Multiple commands can be processed provided each occurs on a separate line. Commands in the "Subject:" line are NOT processed. If you have any questions or problems, please contact "Majordomo-Owner@ces.ncsu.edu". From san@nal.usda.gov Wed Oct 8 00:29:03 1997 Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 15:04:49 -0400 (EDT) From: "Andy Clark, SAN Coordinator" To: sanet-mg Cc: Sustainable Agriculture Network Subject: More Majordomo Information Sanet: A couple of clarifications about sanet's move from almanac to majordomo: 1) You don't need to do anything if you want to keep receiving sanet-mg messages as you always have. 2) You can only post a message to sanet-mg IF YOU ARE SUBSCRIBED. 3) IF you want the digest of sanet, you will need to unsubscribe from the regular sanet, and subscribe to the digest. The digest collects ALL messages in a 24-hour period and sends them ALL in one message. The one message has a list of all the subject lines, followed by all of the messages -- again, all in that one (VERY LONG) message. You would receive only one e-mail from sanet each day. Here's what the beginning of a digest looks like: ___________________________________________________________________________ sanet-mg-digest Monday, October 6 1997 Volume 01 : Number 006 In this issue: Re: comments on UDSA/NOP cost and benefits to organic farmers and handlers Volunteers Re: comments on UDSA/NOP N.E. Regional CSA Conference organic labelling Re: comments on UDSA/NOP cost and benefits to organic farmers and handlers Re: comments on UDSA/NOP cost and benefits to organic farmers and handlers LIVING SNOW FENCE SYMPOSIUM September-October 1997 CSAS Newsletter ________________________________________________________________________ Then, each of the 9 messages in the Oct. 6 digest would follow. Please contact me directly if you have questions. Andy Clark, Ph.D. SAN Coordinator c/o AFSIC, Room 304 National Agricultural Library 10301 Baltimore Ave. Beltsville, MD 20705-2351 PH: 301-504-6425 FAX: 301-504-6409 san@nal.usda.gov http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/san/ To Unsubscribe: Email majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu with "unsubscribe sanet-mg". To Subscribe to Digest: Email majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu with the command "subscribe sanet-mg-digest".