From pdh@u.washington.eduSun Apr 9 21:03:23 1995 Date: Sun, 9 Apr 95 11:09:31 -0700 From: Preston Hardison Reply to: indknow@u.washington.edu To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Unsubscribing and Other Commands Subject: Signing On/Off INDKNOW Other Commands Please keep these addresses and instructions handy: indknow@u.washington.edu (List Address: Used only for mailing messages to the entire list) listproc@ u.washington.edu (List Server Software: Used to automatically subscribe and unsubscribe [signoff] the list) pdh@u.washington.edu (Preston Hardison: List Manager) Hello All - We've been getting many messages sent to the entire list asking to be signed off and onto INDKNOW. Below, I will give some directions for doing so automatically. If you ever have problems, please send requests to the housekeeper around here, Preston Hardison (pdh@u.washington.edu) rather than the entire list. If you are unsubscribing from the e-mail account you used to subscribe INDKNOW, you should be able to unsubscribe by sending a one-line message to listproc@u.washington.edu: signoff indknow You may run into problems if your e-mail address has changed, because the computer can only recognize your request as valid if it precisely matches the address on record in the subscribers file (e.g.: if you signed up using the account "foo@pooh.bah.edu", the software won't recognize you if you send an unsubscribe request from "foo@bah.edu"). Again, if you run into problems, please send messages to me and not the list. If you know your e-mail address is about to change, be responsible and unsubscribe from the old address before it changes and resubscribe from your new address. Or, you can update your own address using the syntax below. If your address has changed and you want to signoff, you can always update your address, then signoff automatically without having to go through me. Remember that if you need to be unsubscribed manually, it may take some time for me to get to the requests. I sometimes travel for a week or two at a time, and have to process a large amount of e-mail daily. The listproc software also requires that I make changes manually, unlike the older listserv software, which allowed me to submit automated e-mail requests. For this reason, I tend to let a few requests pile up before going through the routine of updating the list. You can get a list of the commands available to you from the listproc software by sending the one-word message "help" (without the scare quotes) to listproc@u.washington.edu. Listproc (ListProcessor) will become more familiar to users over time, as the support for Listserv begins to decline with the demise of Bitnet. Most (but not all) of the commands are the same. The command syntax (sent to listproc@u.washington.edu) for some of the most common requests is: set [