Howdy, all
There have been a few questions asked recently that probably could be
answered by a leisurely browse through the chapman-era archives. Here's
how to retrieve the archive files:
_______________________________________________________________
OK, I'm sure that y'all are wondering how to actually use this archive. Well,
it goes something like this:
Step 1: Send a message to Majordomo@autox.team.net with:
index chapman-era
in the body of the message.
You will soon receive email back from autox.team.net, with something like
this in the message body:
>>>> index chapman-era
total 62
- -rw-rw---- 1 root mailadmin 31340 Feb 12 06:37
chapman-era.archive.9702
>>>>
Now, for those of you who are UNIX users, I *certainly* don't have to tell you
what this is! For the rest, suffice it to say that chapman-era.archive.9702 is
just a file name of one of the chapman-era archive files. (Later on, there wil
l
be many files in this list... when I sent my index request, there was only one.
)
Step 2: Send a message to Majordomo@autox.team.net with:
get chapman-era chapman-era.archive.9702
in the body of the message.
In case it isn't obvious, the syntax of the above command is just:
get (list) (filename)
chapman-era appears twice, because it is both the name of the list, and the
first part of the name of the file.
You will soon receive email back from autox.team.net, with this:
>>>> get chapman-era chapman-era.archive.9702
List 'chapman-era' file 'chapman-era.archive.9702'
is being sent as a separate message.
>>>>
This is just a comment, confirming that your command did something.
Next, you will receive another email from autox.team.net, with the text of
that archive file. It may be quite long, and if your mail server has a message
length limitation (as mine does), it will probably convert the thing to an
attachment. That's OK, because it will be a simple text attachment, and it wil
l
be easy enough to decode.
Voila!
_______________________________________________________________
Regards,
Erik Berg
|