Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 19:00:57 -0500 Message-Id: <199703200000.TAA26554@delorie.com> From: DJ Delorie To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: opendos mailing lists changes Some of you have already noticed that there have been some changes in the opendos mailing lists. I don't know when Gene was planning on making an announcement (he's real busy) but here's what's happened so far. Because of his heavy work load, Gene asked if I could take over the opendos mailing lists. I said yes. More time for him to hunt down sources! All three opendos mailing lists are currently being serviced by delorie.com instead of mail.tacoma.net. If they continue to function normally, this change will probably become permanent. In the meanwhile, continue sending to mail.tacoma.net until Gene issues a formal announcement of the change. His server simply forwards the mail to my server. However, for subscription changes, send to BOTH majordomo AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net AND listserv AT delorie DOT com until the change is permanent. This also explains why the [opendos] tag isn't in the subject any more; my mailer doesn't do that. I'll try to think of an easy way to add a special tag into the headers again when I get a chance. I've attached listserv's HELP file for those of you who are familiar only with majordomo's interface. DJ dj AT delorie DOT com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can subscribe or unsubscribe to any of the various mailing lists at delorie.com by sending email to "listserv AT delorie DOT com", like this Unix example: $ Mail listserv AT delorie DOT com Subject: add djgpp ^D To get a list of the groups and their purposes, do like this: $ Mail listserv AT delorie DOT com Subject: longindex ^D Note that the digest groups are purposefully closed to mailings. You may subscribe to them, but you may not send mail to them. The commands understood by the listserv program may be upper or lower case, and are: HELP lists this file. This is also sent whenever a message to listserv is received from which no valid command could be parsed. HELP groupname lists a brief description of the group requested. INDEX lists all the groups available for subscription. LONGINDEX lists all the groups and their descriptions. ADD listname DELETE listname ADD address listname DELETE address listname adds or deletes the given address to or from the list specified. Mail is sent to the address given to confirm the add or delete operation. If you omit the 'address' the command will assume the mailbox that is in the From: line of the message. Note that SUBSCRIBE is a synonym for ADD; UNSUBSCRIBE for DELETE. A command must be the first word on each line in the message. Lines which do not start with a command word are ignored. If no commands were found in the entire message, this help file will be returned to the user. A single message may contain multiple commands; a separate response will be sent for each. Please note that is IS possible to add or delete someone else's subscription to a mailing list. This facility is provided so that subscribers may alter their own subscriptions from a new or different computer account. There is therefore some potential for abuse; we have chosen to limit this by mailing a confirmation notification of any addition or deletion to the address added or deleted including a copy of the message which requested the operation. At least you can find out who's doing it to you. Examples: add djgpp add foo AT bar DOT com djgpp-announce