From procmail-request@Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE Thu Jan 9 09:45:57 1997 Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by kantti.helsinki.fi (8.8.3/8.8.2) with ESMTP id JAA25444 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 09:45:55 +0200 (EET) From: procmail-request@Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE Received: (from lists@localhost) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) id IAA00033; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 08:27:56 +0100 (MET) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 08:27:56 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199701090727.IAA00033@Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> X-Authentication-Warning: campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de: lists set sender to procmail-request@informatik.rwth-aachen.de using -f To: reriksso@cc.helsinki.fi Subject: Re: help References: <199701090725.JAA17963@vesuri.Helsinki.FI> In-Reply-To: <199701090725.JAA17963@vesuri.Helsinki.FI> X-Loop: procmail@informatik.rwth-aachen.de General info ------------ Subcription/unsubscription/info requests should always be sent to the -request address of a mailinglist. If a mailinglist for example is called "thelist@some.domain", then the -request address can be inferred from this to be: "thelist-request@some.domain". To subscribe to a mailinglist, simply send a message with the word "subscribe" in the Subject: field to the -request address of that list. To unsubscribe from a mailinglist, simply send a message with the word (you guessed it :-) "unsubscribe" in the Subject: field to the -request address of that list. In the event of an address change, it would probably be the wisest to first send an unsubscribe for the old address (this can be done from the new address), and then a new subscribe to the new address (the order is important). Most (un)subscription requests are processed automatically without human intervention. Do not send multiple (un)subscription or info requests in one mail. Only one will be processed per mail. NOTE: The -request server usually does quite a good job in discriminating between (un)subscribe requests and messages intended for the maintainer. If you'd like to make sure a human reads your message, make it look like a reply (i.e. the first word in the Subject: field should be "Re:", without the quotes of course); the -request server does not react to replies. The archive server ------------------ Every submission sent to this list is archived. The size of the archive depends on the limits set by the list maintainer (it is very well possible that only, say, the last two mails sent to the list are still archived, the rest might have expired). You can look at the header of every mail coming from this list to see under what name it has been archived. The X-Mailing-List: field contains the mailaddress of the list and the file in which this submission was archived. If you want to access this archive, you have to send mails to the -request address with the word "archive" as the first word of your Subject:. To get you started try sending a mail to the -request address with the following: Subject: archive help --