[IAMSLIC:68] HELPFUL HINT #3: Postponing messages: on New IAMSLIC list

From: Ruth Gustafson (ragustafson@ucdavis.edu)
Date: Thu May 03 2001 - 16:55:33 PDT

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    Hi, IAMSLIC folks: REMINDER: anyone can subscribe to the new IAMSLIC
    discussion list -- you need not be an IAMSLIC, EURASLIC or regional group
    member!!

    There is a command to set up your IAMSLIC@ucdavis.edu discussion list
    subscription to not receive IAMSLIC discussion list messages. This will
    prove very useful when you are gone for extended periods of time for
    conferences or vacation. Then you can always pop into the Web archive to
    review the messages you missed.

    Also, since we are REQUIRING that everyone be a subscriber in order to
    send messages to this new IAMSLIC discussion list, this gives people who
    only want to SEND messages to the list the option to basically turn off
    their RECEIPT of IAMSLIC messages.

    To turn your messages off:
            set <list> mail postpone

    So here's a model of how you'd do this (leave the SUBJECT line blank):
       TO : listproc@ucdavis.edu
       SUBJECT:
       Body of Message: set iamslic mail postpone

    To turn your messages back on:
            set <list> mail ack

    So here's a model of how you'd do this (leave the SUBJECT line blank):
       TO : listproc@ucdavis.edu
       SUBJECT:
       Body of Message: set iamslic mail ack

    CAUTION: For those of you who have automatic signature files (address
    appendices at the bottom of your e-mail), please make sure that you have a
    double-hyphen above this addressing information. The double-hyphen [--]
    alone on a single line is a signal to the ListProc software to ignore the
    text below. For example, see below for how my address line is set up!

    Feel free to e-mail me if you have questions about any of this. Sorry
    about the exceptionally techno-geek flavor of this message :+> Just want
    everyone to be able to take advantage of some of the great features of
    this new discussion list!

    Cheers, Ruth Gustafson
    IAMSLIC list manager

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    Ruth Gustafson Head of Library & Information Services Cadet Hand Library Bodega Marine Laboratory Phone: (707)875-1936 University of California, Davis FAX: (707)875-2089/2009 P.O. Box 247 // 2099 Westside Road ragustafson@ucdavis.edu Bodega Bay, CA 94923-0247 http://www-bml.ucdavis.edu



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