3.1153 e-mail affairs (72)
Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Thu, 8 Mar 90 21:29:02 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 1153. Thursday, 8 Mar 1990.
(1) Date: 07 Mar 90 21:29:08 EST (15 lines)
From: James O'Donnell <JODONNEL@PENNSAS>
Subject: government e-access
(2) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 90 19:26:00 EST (40 lines)
From: <BCJ@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>
Subject: Subscribing to C18-L from non-Bitnet sites.
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Date: 07 Mar 90 21:29:08 EST
From: James O'Donnell <JODONNEL@PENNSAS>
Subject: government e-access
From: Jim O'Donnell (Classics, Penn)
The posting about the perverse bill pending to restrict access to
government e-data set me to wondering whether we may yet write our
representatives by e-mail? I'll bet they're all shooting e-grams back
and forth to each other, and it would be a public service (fair play
turnabout for the franking privilege) if their addresses were published.
Have the addresses been published? Anybody out there clever enough to
winkle them out and publish them anyway? (It was e-mail that helped get
Ollie North in trouble: he thought he was erasing all his messages, but
somebody in the basement was automatically backing them up every day>)
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Date: Wed, 7 Mar 90 19:26:00 EST
From: <BCJ@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>
Subject: Subscribing to C18-L from non-Bitnet sites.
[A novice "list owner" has sent me the following note about difficulties
of access to Bitnet-ListServ discussion groups from outside Bitnet. The
major point of confusion seems to involve the fact that
non-Bitnet/NetNorth/EARN users of e-mail cannot send interactive
commands. The Guide to Humanist advises all such people to send a simple
mail-message to the ListServ site in question, and to ListServ at that
site in particular, with the desired command as the first and only line.
As far as I know this technique works. Any contrary evidence? -W.M.]
Date 3 Mar 90 10:31:00 EST
>From "ROLAND HUTCHINSON" <hutchinson@apollo.montclair.edu>
Subject Subscribing to C18-L from non-Bitnet sites.
To "bcj" <bcj%psuvm.bitnet@jvncc.csc.org>
I have succeded in subscribing to 18C-L. But I could not have done
it by following the instructions that you posted in HUMANIST (and, I
presume, elsewhere). I thought this might be worth mentioning to you.
You realize, of course, that your directions assume that the prospective
subscriber is at a Bitnet site and can issue interactive commands.
You might want to remind non-Bitnet people (and there are many of us!)
that Listserv commands can also be tucked inside a mail message and
mailed to the Bitnet address LISTSERV@PSUVM or (mirabile dictu) the
Internet address listserv@psuvm.psu.edu
Presumably, those of us who subscribe to HUMANIST from Bitnet sites
have done this kind of thing before--but I suspect some people will
want reminding nonetheless.
Roland Hutchinson
Visiting Specialist in Early Music
Montclair State College