Administrative FAQ


All list preferences and settings can be changed via the Web interface.  The following commands are useful if your only access is via e-mail (but in that case, how are you reading this?)

1.

To unsubscribe, send the following message to brin-l-request@mccmedia.com:

unsubscribe

2.

To compact your mail in one big e-mail per day, send the following message to brin-l-request@mccmedia.com:

set digest
[plain|mime]

"Plain" will send digests in plain text (RFC 1153); "Mime" will encode the messages as a MIME digest.

3.

To return to individual messages, send the following message to brin-l-request@mccmedia.com @mccmedia.com:

set digest off

4.

If you're going away on holiday, send the following message to brin-l-request@mccmedia.com:

set delivery off

To unset postpone mode, send:

set delivery on

5.

There are many other commands accessible via e-mail.  To receive an overview, send the following message to brin-l-request@mccmedia.com:

help

For various settings, send:

set help

6.

Please do not quote large blocks of text, quote only relevant portions.

7.

Letters to Dr. Brin or Dr. Benford should be prefixed by +++ in the header of the mail.

8.

Please don't even try to post huge files to the list. If you want to share a file of interest to everyone, put it on a web page and post the URL.  The list server will EAT attachments, quietly, never to be seen again.

9.

If you are posting a LONG message and would like to courteously warn the rest of us that it is LONG, please include L3 or ELL in the subject line.

10.

Julia Thompson and Nick Arnett are list managers. You can contact Nick at narnett@mccmedia.com and Julia at julia@zurg.net.

11.

If you want your picture posted on the web alongside other list members, at http://www.sloan3d.com/cgi-bin/memberpix.cgi, you can email your picture to Steve Sloan, at steve@sloan3d.com.



Administrative FAQ © Julia Thompson. Used with permission.