Was not aware of this mechanism, will take care of it asap...Many thanks! Ciao for now! Cathy GREEN ;-)
Atherton HS French 3000 Dundee Rd Louisville, KY 40205 502.485.8202ext204 fax 502.485.8985 cgreen1 at jefferson.k12.ky.us > ---------- > From: owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu on behalf of Harry > Jacobson-Beyer > Reply To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 12:20 PM > To: Macusergroup > Subject: Fwd: MacGroup: MacGroup FAQ [bcc][faked-from] > > Hey folks, > > It's not fair to Lee or the user group to ask Lee to change your email > addresses. It's the end of the semester and he may be out of town. > Everymonth he sends out a listserve FAQ with directions on how to change > your email address. It's done automatically and doesn't require human > intervention. > > So unsubscribe from the old address and then resubscribe from the new. > > Lee's FAQ is below. > > Happy Memorial Day weekend. > > > > > ---------------- Begin Forwarded Message ---------------- > Subject: MacGroup: MacGroup FAQ > Date Sent: Monday, May 1, 2006 3:00 AM > From: larson at erdos.math.louisville.edu > To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Reply To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > > This is an e-mail automatically sent to the MacGroup mailing list once > per month. It contains some administrivia about list usage. It is always > available at the list's Web page > > <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> > > Additional questions about list management should be send to macgroup- > owner at erdos.math.louisville.edu. > > Here are the questions. To find the answer, search on [n], where n is > the number of the question. > > 1. How do I unsubscribe from MacGroup or MacGroup-Digest? > 2. How do I subscribe to MacGroup or MacGroup-Digest? > 3. What's the difference between MacGroup and MacGroup Digest? > 4. How do I post messages to the lists? > 5. What kinds of messages can be posted to the lists? > 6. I just posted to the list. Why did my message not appear? > 7. How about attachments? > 8. Is there an archive of past messages? > 9. Will you give me a list of all subscribers to the lists? > 10. How many subscribers are there? > 11. Are the lists hosted on a Macintosh? > 12. I do not seem to be getting all the list messages. Why? > > > [1] How do I unsubscribe from MacGroup or MacGroup-Digest? > > To do so, you must send a command to, Majordomo, the software that > serves the list. This is done by sending it an e-mail message. If you > are unsubscribing from MacGroup, send your message to > > macgroup-request at erdos.math.louisville.edu > > If you are unsubscribing from MacGroup Digest, send the message to > > macgroup-digest-request at erdos.math.louisville.edu > > Sending your message to the standard list address will do nothing. In > either case, the only thing to appear in the message should be the single > word > > unsubscribe > > Make sure your mailer does not automatically append anything else to the > message, and it's best to send the message as plain text e-mail. The > return address on your message must be in the database of > subscribers, so send the message from the same account you use to > receive mail from the list. You should get an acknowledgement from the > Majordomo software a short time after you unsubscribe. If this > acknowledgement does not appear, something went wrong. More information > about unsubscribe and other commands is available by sending e-mail > containing the single word "help" to majordomo at erdos.math.louisville.edu. > > If you change your e-mail address, please remember to unsubscribe > from your old one and subscribe under your new address. > > If you just abandon an e-mail account, please unsubscribe before you do > so. An abandoned e-mail address generates annoying error messages, and > the list's moderator must unsubscribe you by hand. This annoys him. > > > [2] How do I subscribe to MacGroup. > > Anyone can subscribe to the MacGroup or MacGroup Digest lists. To do so, > you must send a command to, Majordomo, the software that serves the > list. This is done by sending it an e-mail message. If you are > subscribing to MacGroup, send your message to > > macgroup-request at erdos.math.louisville.edu > > If you are subscribing to MacGroup Digest, send the message to > > macgroup-digest-request at erdos.math.louisville.edu > > In either case, the only thing to appear in the message should be the > single word > > subscribe > > You should get an acknowledgement from the Majordomo software a short > time after you subscribe. If this acknowledgement does not appear, > something went wrong. More information about subscribe and other > commands is available by sending e-mail containing the single word > "help" to majordomo at erdos.math.louisville.edu. > > > [3] What's the difference between MacGroup and MacGroup Digest? > > Both have the same content. Subscribers to MacGroup get the messages one > at a time, as they are sent. Subscribers to MacGroup Digest get all the > messages since the previous digest as one long message. The digests are > generated whenever the queued messages exceed 80K bytes, or at 5:15 p.m. > daily, whichever comes first. > > The digested version of the list is still somewhat experimental. Because > of the dozens of different combinations of character sets and formatting > regularly used in e-mail, it's no easy job to cleanly concatenate the > messages when the digest is created. Many lists solve the problem by > requiring all posters to adhere to a strict set of rules. We're trying a > different approach; we're developing a program to parse the various > formats into a common form. For this reason, you'll occasionally see > unexpected formatting problems on the digest as we experiment with > different ways to mangle the messages posted to MacGroup into a form > suitable for MacGroup Digest. You can help when you see a possible > formatting error by calling it to our attention. > > > [4] How do I post messages to the lists? > > To post a message to the discussion lists, just send an ordinary email > message to macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu. This message will be > automatically distributed to all 150+ subscribers. Only subscribers are > allowed to post messages, so be sure to send the message from the same > email address you use to receive messages from the list. If the return > address on the message is not in the subscriber list, the message will > be rejected. > > There is no moderation on the lists, so be careful what you post. When > your message is sent, it will be immediately forwarded to all list > subscribers. > > There are a few nuances to posting that are sometimes nuisances. > > First, the list management software, Majordomo, is set to look for > certain key words in the subject of messages to avoid administrative > commands being posted to the list. These include words such as subscribe > and unsubscribe. Messages posted with these key words in the subject are > likely to be rejected. Any line containing the string +++ will not > appear in the digest. > > Second, only those subscribed to the list may post to the list. All > other messages are rejected. The way Majordomo determines membership is > from the sender's e-mail address. So, if you want to post to the list, > you should probably send the message from the same account at which you > receive mail from the list. (Or set your mail software to have an > appropriate return address.) The reason for this requirement is to keep > the spammers off the list. > > > [5] What kinds of messages can be posted to the list? > > Any message that concerns Macintosh computers. The connection can even > be quite tenuous. This includes computer items for sale and commercial > events and seminars with Macintosh themes. Buying, selling and trading > software is allowed, as long as the transaction is legal. When in doubt, > ask first; the answer will probably be to go ahead and post it. > > The list is closed to general spam mail, and we have gone to some > trouble in our efforts to keep spam off this list. We do not consider > advertising for Mac-related products to be spam, in the context of the > MacGroup list. > > [6] I just posted to the list. Why did my message not appear? > > The usual reason for this is that the return address on your posting is > not the account at which you are subscribed. Most of the time this > happens because somebody subscribes with their home address and tries to > post with their work address, or vice versa. To cut down on spammers, > only list subscribers are allowed to post. > > In a few cases, the message is rejected by the Majordomo software for > technical reasons. The most common of these is the message exceeding the > 40,000 character limit. > > [7] How about attachments? > > Attachments are discouraged because the digest cannot handle them. > > [8] Is there an archive of past messages? > > Creating an archive of this list is an on-going project. There is a > partial archive at the list's Web page > > <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> > > The archive is still being worked on, and may not be reliable. There's > also no way to search it (yet). If there is demand for them, features > will be added (slowly). > > [9] Will you give me a listing of all subscribers to the lists? > > No. > > [10] How many subscribers are there? > > On February 27, 2006, MacGroup had 274 subscribers and MacGroup-Digest > had 26 subscribers. > > [11] Are the lists hosted on a Macintosh? > > Unfortunately, no, although they could easily be hosted on Mac OS X. The > current hardware is a Linux server with dual Pentium III processors. The > list management software is Majordomo, augmented by some custom Perl > routines due to Jerry Yeager. If someone wants to donate a Macintosh on > which to host MacGroup, we'll be happy to entertain that idea. Until > then, we have better things to do with our Macs. > > [12] I do not seem to be getting all the list messages. Why? > > Some Internet service providers have installed spam filters that are > overly aggressive. For some reason, they identify seemingly random > messages from MacGroup as spam. If you're having this problem, you'll > have to complain to your ISP because there's little we can do. > > Full mailboxes are another common reason why mail fails to reach > subscribers. We usually let such bounce messages pile up for about a > week before removing an address. > > > > 28-February-06 > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be May 23 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > > ----------------- End Forwarded Message ----------------- > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be June 27 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20060525/afabc512/attachment.html
