===================== ACCMAIL Monthly Reminder =======================
Posted 01 Dec 2006
This message is intended to inform you what to do before posting to
accmail`AT`listserv.aol.com
the mailing list discussing 'Accessing the Internet via Email'.
1. Purpose
2. Conventions
3. The ACCMAIL FAQ: a guide to offline internet access
4. Usenet
5. Posting to ACCMAIL: language
6. Posting to ACCMAIL: subject lines
7. Posting to ACCMAIL: off-topic
8. Posting to ACCMAIL: netiquette
9. Receiving ACCMAIL: digest and single postings
10. ACCMAIL topics
11. ACCMAIL archives and search
12. Other mailing lists
12. Epilogue
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1. PURPOSE
This list exists as a forum for communicating news, comments and
questions about email-only methods of accessing the Internet.
This is the place to find out about new versions, ask questions
about the current version, make suggestions for additions/deletions,
etc.
ACCMAIL is a moderated list, which means that all postings will be
sent to a human for review before being posted to the list.
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2. CONVENTIONS
In this file, we have replaced the normal email @ character with the
string `AT`. To use any email address, simply replace `AT` with @ to
form a proper email address.
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3. THE ACCMAIL FAQ: A GUIDE TO OFFLINE INTERNET ACCESS
In August 2003, after many years dedicated service to the ACCMAIL
community, Mr Gerald Boyd retired as maintainer of the ACCMAIL FAQ,
and unfortunately died in May the following year.
The most recent version (10.2) was published in April 2002, and
although still useful, has inevitably become out of date. A new
version is being prepared.
How to get the latest published version of the ACCMAIL FAQ
a) Autoresponder (English version only):
Send an email to mail-server`AT`rtfm.mit.edu with
send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email
as the message body
b) Anonymous FTP (English version only):
Host: rtfm.mit.edu
get pub/usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email
c) WWW (English version only):
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/internet-services/access-via-email/
d) Autoresponder (Russian translation only):
Send an email to accmailfaqrus`AT`tg.org.ua
e) Autoresponder (original English and translations):
Send a blank email to accmail.faq`AT`szs.net with the
two-character code of the desired language as the subject.
Example for the Spanish version ...
Subject: es
Translations currently available are
German: de
English: en
Esperanto: eo
Spanish: es
Hungarian: hu
Indonesian: id
Russian: ru
For this autoresponder
* The 'subject' header must contain ONLY the two-character code.
* The 'cc' header must not be used.
* The email body should preferably be empty, but for those who
cannot avoid extra lines added by their email hosts, a very
short text message will be accepted. Please use plain text with
no signature or other characters added by yourself.
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4. USENET
To learn about Usenet, Usenet access and newsgroups, Uzi Paz
provides a valuable file.
Send a message to: agora`AT`dna.affrc.go.jp and in the body of the
message enter ONE of the following:
send http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/1131/ua.txt
send http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/1131/ua.zip
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5. POSTING TO ACCMAIL: LANGUAGE
The language of the list is international English. Don't worry if
you think your English is not very good -- and don't apologise --
MOST subscribers use English as a foreign or second language.
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6. POSTING TO ACCMAIL: SUBJECT LINES
Mail should have a meaningful subject heading which reflects the
content of the message -- it helps others to find messages of
interest (and is necessary if you receive a lot of messages per
day), and it helps to follow a thread on a particular topic.
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7. POSTING TO ACCMAIL: OFF-TOPIC
Make sure your post isn't off-topic. In particular, this mailing
list does NOT deal with topics like:
- General use of your computer.
- Where do I get this or that software -- instead ask how to
retrieve it via email.
- Where do I find information on ??? -- instead ask how do I find
information concerning ??? via email.
- Windows 95/98/NT/XP problems -- instead ask where do I find
information regarding a problem (email address, mailing list, web
page, etc.)
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8. POSTING TO ACCMAIL: NETIQUETTE
* DON'T include the entire contents of a previous posting in your
reply.
* DO cut mercilessly. Leave just enough to indicate what you're
responding to. NEVER include mail headers except maybe the 'From:'
line. If you can't figure out how to delete lines in your mailer
software, paraphrase or type the quoted material in.
* DON'T SEND A MESSAGE IN ALL CAPS. CAPITALIZED MESSAGES ARE HARDER
TO READ THAN LOWER CASE OR MIXED CASE.
* DO use normal capitalization. Separate your paragraphs with blank
lines. Make your message inviting to your potential readers.
* DON'T send messages with HTML coding or MIME extensions.
* DO learn how to change your email program so that it sends only
plain text ASCII to the list.
* Remember that people with whom you communicate are located across
the globe. If you send a message to which you want an immediate
response, the person receiving it might be at home asleep when it
arrives. Give them a chance to wake up, come to work, and login
before assuming the mail didn't arrive or that they don't care.
* In general, most people who use the Internet don't have time to
answer general questions about the Internet and its workings.
Don't send unsolicited mail asking for information to people whose
names you might have seen on mailing lists.
* ACCMail messages may be archived on websites that are vulnerable
to spambots and other email harvesters. The AOL listserv archive
is protected, but we do not know where else the messages might
appear. When posting or replying to the list, we strongly advise
you to munge all email addresses you mention in the text of your
message, especially if they are not yours. For example, instead of
typing an email address as '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', type it like one of
the following:
user#domain.com
user()domain.com
user AT domain DOT com
Spambots will not see an email address, but human readers will
know what you mean. Don't munge email addresses in the FROM, TO,
CC, BCC email headers - your message will fail if you do!
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9. RECEIVING ACCMAIL: DIGEST AND SINGLE POSTINGS
If you wish to receive the digest version of ACCMAIL (ie: all
postings combined together and sent out at the end of each day),
send an email to listserv`AT`listserv.aol.com with
SET ACCMAIL DIGEST
as the body of the message
If you wish to receive the individual postings to ACCMAIL (ie, each
posting as it is approved in a separate message), send an email to
listserv`AT`listserv.aol.com with
SET ACCMAIL NODIGESTS
or
SET ACCMAIL MAIL
as the body of the message
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10. ACCMAIL TOPICS
ACCMAIL uses LISTSERV 'topics', which allows people to subscribe to
a subset of postings. We have three topics:
* NEWS: announcements about new servers, new techniques, new FAQs.
* UPDATES: formatted updates of the main FAQ -- authoritative
information that is more-or-less ready for publication.
* PBE: posts about Publishing By Email.
To change your subscription options to receive only NEWS and
UPDATES, send an email to listserv`AT`listserv.aol.com with
SET ACCMAIL NODIGESTS
SET ACCMAIL TOPICS: UPDATES,NEWS
as the message body.
To change your subscription options to receive only NEWS and PBE,
send an email to listserv`AT`listserv.aol.com with
SET ACCMAIL NODIGESTS
SET ACCMAIL TOPICS: PBE,NEWS
as the message body.
To change your subscription options to receive all posts, send an
email to listserv`AT`listserv.aol.com with
SET ACCMAIL TOPICS: ALL
as the message body.
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11. ACCMAIL ARCHIVES AND SEARCH
To access the ACCMAIL archives (stored on a weekly basis), email to
listserv`AT`listserv.aol.com with
INDEX ACCMAIL
as the body of the message
This will return a list of the available files which can be
retrieved by sending a command like this in the BODY of your next
email to listserv`AT`listserv.aol.com
GET ACCMAIL LOGyymmn
where 'yy' is the year, 'mm' is the month, and 'n' is an alpha
character representing the week number (a for 1, b for 2, etc)
Example: to get the archives for week 5 of August 2004, request
GET ACCMAIL LOG0408E
(year = 04, month = 08, week = E)
To search the archives, use the SEARCH command, eg:
* To search the archives for 'www4mail' and 'cookies', request
SEARCH www4mail cookies in ACCMAIL
* To search the archives for UPDATE topic posts, request
SEARCH 'UPDATES:' in ACCMAIL
The response is a list of numbered messages, followed by one-line
extracts containing the search words. You can get these messages by
requesting the post by number, eg:
GETPOST ACCMAIL 1021
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12. OTHER MAILING LISTS
SOLOCORREO
If your first language is Spanish, then also subscribe to the
Solocorreo mailing list: "... es destinada a discutir, debatir,
etc, los métodos de acceso a Internet utilizando solamente el
e-mail". Para suscribirse, envíeun mensaje en blanco a:
solocorreo-alta`AT`eListas.net
Recibirá un mensaje de confirmación y debe seguir las
instrucciones para confirmar la suscripcion de la lista.
Página principal: http://www.eListas.net/lista/solocorreo/
ACCMAILRUS
If your first language is Russian, then also subscribe to the
ACCMAILRUS mailing list.
Home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/accmailrus/
Subscribe: accmailrus-subscribe`AT`yahoogroups.com
WEB_EMIL
If your first language is Hungarian, then also subscribe to the
WEB_EMIL mailing list.
Home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/web_emil/
Subscribe: web_emil-subscribe`AT`yahoogroups.com
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13. EPILOGUE
If you have had good luck with a piece of email software or other
software that works well, please inform the list.
If you have considered all these files and comments, your post will
be welcome on ACCMAIL and everybody will try to help you with your
problems.
If not, you're likely to get a short answer referencing one of the
files mentioned here, or sometimes no answer at all!
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File last updated 5 November 2006
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