[IAMSLIC:145] Repeat: HELPFUL HINT: Postponing messages: on New IAMSLIC list

From: Ruth Gustafson (ragustafson@ucdavis.edu)
Date: Mon May 21 2001 - 12:19:57 PDT

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    Hi, IAMSLIC folks: When you are out of town or not able to receive your
    e-mail for a long time, >please< use the handy POSTPONE messages command.

    This command sets up your IAMSLIC@ucdavis.edu discussion list subscription
    to not receive IAMSLIC discussion list messages. This will prove
    especially useful when you are gone for extended periods of time for
    conferences or vacation. Then you can always pop into the monthly Web
    archives of the IAMSLIC e-mail discussion list to review the messages you
    missed. (The next helpful hint will discuss how to access the archives.)

    Also, since we are REQUIRING that everyone be a subscriber to the new
    IAMSLIC discussion list 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 technological 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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