Return-Path: sendmail 5.67/UCSD-2.2-sun Thu, 18 Feb 93 17:20:52 -0800 for /usr/lib/sendmail -oc -odq -oQ/var/spool/lqueue -oi -fsocgrad-relay socgrad-list Date: Thu, 18 Feb 93 20:17:33 EST From: Jim Cassell Subject: Help file or how to unsubscribe from this list To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion I've appended the help file for this particular listserver below. It tells how to subscribe, unsubscribe, etc. Remember that these commands must be sent to LISTSERV@UCSD.EDU rather than socgrad. Best, Jim ------------------ Subject: Re: your LISTSERV request "help" You can subscribe or unsubscribe to any of the various campus mailing lists and the local redistributions of global mailing lists by sending email to "listserv@ucsd". The commands understood by the listserv program 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. We strongly recommend that you use your campus registered mailname when subscribing (i.e., use the second form of the command which includes a specification of the address). 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. DELETE-ALL UNSUBSCRIBE-ALL DELETE-ALL address UNSUBSCRIBE-ALL address unsubscribes given address from all mailing lists. Mail is sent the address given to confirm the deletions. If you omit the 'address' the command will assume the mailbox that is in the From: line of the message. LIST LIST address lists all mailing lists to which the given address is subscribed. If you omit the 'address' the command will assume the mailbox is in the from line. FAQ FAQ listname sends a list of "Frequently Asked Questions" for the appropriate mailing list. The command "FAQ" by itself sends an index of available FAQ's. INFO INFO filename1 filename2 ... filenameN GET filename1 filename2 ... filenameN sends a copy of the appropriate information sheet associated with each file name. The command "INFO" by itself will send an index of available info sheets. FAX faxnumber filename1 filename2 ... filenameN sends a fax of the appropriate file to faxnumber. Faxnumber is the phone number of the desired fax machine, including any necessary dialout prefixes. Fax machines on UCSD's Ericson telephone system are best accessed using their 5 digit extension. The command "INFO" by itself will send an index of available documents. 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 sunusers add ewombat foodlovers delete wombat@cyberpunk.ucsd.edu connectionists help eggbeaters Note that although you would mail submissions to a campus mailing list by addressing mail to e.g., sunusers@ucsd.edu, in a subscription request you specify the name of the list simply (without the @ucsd part) as in the first example above. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Cassell Jim_Cassell@UNC.EDU Institute for Research in Social Science Phone: 919-962-0782 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Fax: 919-962-4777 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3355 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------