Subject: Help!

From: [email-masked] (Kenneth Zastrow)
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 22:51:04 -0400

I managed to trash my morning mail (September 4) before getting
to digest it.  Specifically interested in comments on charcoal
as forge fuel and something about a natural gas compressor.

Would one of you diligent souls who saves these messages
send same to me at above address?  I only need items that 
appeared after 10 p.m EDT Sep 3 and before 2 p.m on Sep 4.

Thanks
Ken Zastrow
the copper heron forge

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From: "Steven O. Smith" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 96 9:23:11 MDT

Dear Ken,

The 'above address' you mentioned didn't come through in my mail. We
get this question once and awhile; here's how to get another copy of
the mail you missed:

What you need to do is send the computer a message (_don't_ send it to
the email list--see address below). What I do is put the message in
for subject, and also in the body of the letter. The message should be
the only thing in the letter--remove your signature.

Here's the computerese:

index [archive | path-to-archive] [/password] [-all]
----------------------------------------------------
Get a list of files in the selected archive, or the master archive if no
archive was specified. If an archive is private, you have to provide its
password as well.

get <archive | path-to-archive> <file> [/password] [parts]
----------------------------------------------------------
Get the requested file from the specified archive. Files are usually split in
parts locally, and in such a case you will receive the file in multiple email
messages -- an 'index' request tells you how many parts the file has been split
into, and their sizes; if you need to obtain certain parts, specify them as
optional arguments. If an archive is private, you have to provide its password
as well.
 
Here's an example which I actually used (and it worked):

	get theforge log9608

log9608 means the digest for August, 1996. Be careful not to put a
space between log and 9608.

Here is what you want to send:

	get theforge log9609

If you want an index of the available logs, you do that with the index
command, like this:

	index theforge -all

IMPORTANT NOTE:
Don't send these to the email list; use a different address:

	[email-masked]

Be careful with the spelling; you're corresponding with a computer
with zero imagination.

--
Steven O. Smith
[email-masked]