The Cyberia-L listserv has been VERY interesting recently, discussing
copyright infringement on the Internet. They might like to tackle the
faxing question, although their area of expertise is really cyberspace.
Good luck!
Steve Anderson
Associate Law Librarian
Baltimore County Circuit Court
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Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 18:19:58 +0000
From: Trotter Hardy <thardy@FACSTAFF.WM.EDU>
To: sanderso@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us
Subject: Your request to subscribe to CYBERIA-L
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Frequently Asked Questions about CYBERIA-L
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(revised 8-16-96)
WHAT IS CYBERIA-L?
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The Cyberia-l list (formerly called "Cyberlaw") is for
discussions of law and policy of computer communications.
For most of its life, CYBERIA-L ran on a listserv at
the College of William and Mary. In April, 1996, it
moved to a listserv machine maintained by America Online.
It's still run the same way: same policies, same list owner,
same everything else.
WOULD YOU JUST ADD ME TO THE LIST, PLEASE?
==========================================
I have run a list before for which I did a lot of the
administrative work of subscribing and unsubscribing people; it
was more work than I care to do again. Therefore I am asking
people to please deal directly with the listserv software for
those purposes whenever possible. So ...
HOW DO I SUBSCRIBE?
===================
To subscribe to Cyberia-l, send a message (from whatever address
you'd prefer to receive mail) to:
and have the BODY of the message (not the "SUBJ" line) read as
follows:
SUBSCRIBE CYBERIA-L LEE JOHNSON
where "Lee Johnson" is replaced with your own name. Note also that
"cyberia-l" ends with hyphen "el" -- NOT hyphen "one". The "el"
stands for "list."
HOW DO I UNSUBSCRIBE?
=====================
To get off the list, send a message to the same address,
this time with the body of the message reading either:
UNSUB CYBERIA-L
or
SIGNOFF CYBERIA-L
HOW CAN I GET ALL DAILY MESSAGES IN ONE BUNDLE
(HOW TO SET "DIGEST" MODE)
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Send a message to
with the body of the message reading
SET CYBERIA-L MAIL DIGESTS
to undo digest mode and get messages individually:
SET CYBERIA-L MAIL NODIGESTS
HOW CAN I STOP MESSAGES BUT REMAIN A SUBSCRIBER?
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Send a message to
with the body of the message reading
SET CYBERIA-L NOMAIL
When you want to get mail again,
SET CYBERIA-L MAIL
I KEEP GETTING LITTLE "CONFIRMATION" MESSAGES
FROM THE LISTSERV TELLING ME THAT MY MESSAGE
WAS SUCCESSFULLY DISTRIBUTED. CAN I STOP THEM?
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Send a message to:
with the text reading:
SET CYBERIA-L NOACK
If you want the confirmations turned back on again,
SET CYBERIA-L ACK
ARE MESSAGES ARCHIVED FOR RETRIEVAL ANYWHERE?
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I do not presently offer "back issues" of cyberia traffic,
though I might do so in the future. I express no opinion
on whether the creation of such an archive might or might not
infringe any copyrights in individual messages or the
compilation of such messages. No archives are maintained
on or by America Online.
IF ALL THIS FAILS, WHAT DO I DO?
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First contact the list manager, who does
an extraordinarily good job of keeping the
list running:
Ray Everett-Church <RayEverett@aol.com>
If that doesn't work, then
contact me (the list owner):
Trotter Hardy <thardy@facstaff.wm.edu>
BTW, WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I SUBSCRIBE?
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You should get a canned message from the AOL listserv
that repeats a lot of what I have summarized above. It
will look more-or-less like this:
-----------------Forwarded Message-------------------
Please save this message for future reference, especially if you are
not
familiar with LISTSERV. This might look like a waste of disk space
now,
but in 6 months you will be glad you saved this information when
you
realize that you cannot remember what are the lists you are
subscribed
to, or what is the command to leave the list to avoid filling up
your
mailbox while you are on vacations. In fact, you should create a new
mail
folder for subscription confirmation messages like this one, and for
the
"welcome messages" from the list owners that you will
occasionally
receive after subscribing to a new list.
To send a message to all the people currently subscribed to the
list,
just send mail to CYBERIA-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM. This is called
"sending
mail to the list", because you send mail to a single address and
LISTSERV
makes copies for all the people who have subscribed. This
address
(CYBERIA-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM) is also called the "list address". You
must
never try to send any command to that address, as it would be
distributed
to all the people who have subscribed. All commands must be sent to
the
"LISTSERV address", LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM. It is very
important to
understand the difference between the two, but fortunately it is
not
complicated. The LISTSERV address is like a FAX number, and the
list
address is like a normal phone line. If you make your FAX call
someone's
regular phone number by mistake, it will be an unpleasant experience
for
him but you will probably be excused the first time. If you do
it
regularly, however, he will probably get upset and send you a
nasty
complaint. It is the same with mailing lists, with the difference
that
you are calling hundreds or thousands of people at the same time,
so a
lot more people get annoyed if you use the wrong number.
You may leave the list at any time by sending a "SIGNOFF
CYBERIA-L"
command to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM. You can also tell LISTSERV how
you
want it to confirm the receipt of messages you send to the list. If
you
do not trust the system, send a "SET CYBERIA-L REPRO" command
and
LISTSERV will send you a copy of your own messages, so that you can
see
that the message was distributed and did not get damaged on the
way.
After a while you may find that this is getting annoying,
especially if
your mail program does not tell you that the message is from you
when it
informs you that new mail has arrived from CYBERIA-L. If you send a
"SET
CYBERIA-L ACK NOREPRO" command, LISTSERV will mail you a
short
acknowledgement instead, which will look different in your
mailbox
directory. With most mail programs you will know immediately that
this is
an acknowledgement you can read later. Finally, you can turn
off
acknowledgements completely with "SET CYBERIA-L NOACK NOREPRO".
Following instructions from the list owner, your subscription
options
have been set to "NOACK REPRO NOCONCEAL POST" rather than the
usual
LISTSERV defaults. For more information about subscription options,
send
a "QUERY CYBERIA-L" command to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM.
More information on LISTSERV commands can be found in the
LISTSERV
reference card, which you can retrieve by sending an "INFO
REFCARD"
command to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM.
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