Posted by Weasel on 1998-02-15
Hi Coder's Guild Members! ========================= Since a lot of you have difficulties editing their settings in the mailing list, I now want to send to you an instructions file Jaz, the Coder's Guild founder, wrote for this list. This file is send automatically to all new subscribers but if you are not that new in the guild and in the list, you might have never get something like this. Most people have problems changing their address so I just want to give a short example: You are subscribed with the address member@the.coders.guild Your password is DGL. and you want your address changed to member@xxxx.xxx so you have to send a mail to listserver@xxxx.xx.xx from the address you are currently subscribed with, i.e. member@the.coders.guild. It is important that you send it from this address!! In this mail, leave the subject empty and in the body just write the line set tcg address PASSWORD NEW_ADDRESS where you replace the words in capitals with the items that match with your data. In or case: set tcg address DGL. member@xxxx.xxx Do _NOT_ replace >address< with your current address: set tcg member@the.coders.guild DGL. member@xxxx.xxx this will _NOT_ work. For more information about this see point 6 in jaz' file. ----Here it is:---- *------------------------------------------------------ | USiNG thE COdER'S GUiLd MAiLiNG LiSt *------------------------------------------------------ | You can get the newest version of this file at | version from http://www.paracatz.com/codersguild/ *====================================================== *------------------------------------------------------ | CONtENtS *------------------------------------------------------ 1. What's this? 2. What is a Mailing List? 3. Writing Mails / Using Server Commands 4. Adding / Removing your address from / to the list 5. Changing how messages are sent to you 6. Editing your account settings 7. How to behave in a mailing list (important!) *------------------------------------------------------ | 1. WhAt'S thiS? *------------------------------------------------------ This file contains all the information you need to use the Coder's Guild mailing list. If you don't understand something or if something does not work like it should do, please contact Weasel (weasel@xxxxxxx.xxx). He will try to solve your problem. For more information visit the Coder's Guild homepage at http://www.paracatz.com/codersguild/ There you can even read the mailing list without subscribing to it! Save this file. You will need it. *------------------------------------------------------ | 2. WhAt iS A MAiLiNG LiSt? *------------------------------------------------------ A mailing list is a list of e-mail addresses, united to one address, in our case tcg@xxxx.xx.xx. The e-mail addresses of nearly all members are on this list. If you send a mail to tcg@xxxx.xx.xx your mail will be spread to all subscribers of the list, or say to nearly all members. We use the list for example to ask questions about programming, to look for beta testers, to announce our self-written software, to form teams and so on. You must be a member of the guild to use the list. Membership is free, you can get a member at http://www.paracatz.com/codersguild/ There are also "server commands" with that you can control the settings for your current list entry. All mails you must sent to listserver@xxxx.xx.xx are server commands. If you spread mails through the list you can use every address you want. However, if you use a server command you MUST use the address under which you are subscribed. You can look up the address under which you are subscribed in the Coder's Guild's member list at http://www.paracatz.com/codersguild/ If the address you are subscribed under in the list is only a forwarding address you have a little problem since you can't send mails from a forwarding address and so you can't use server commands. If your situation is like that, send a mail to Weasel (eeasel@xxxxxxx.xxx) and ask him to change your e-mail address. *------------------------------------------------------ | 4. AddiNG / REMOViNG YOUR AddRESS tO / fROM thE LiSt *------------------------------------------------------ When you join your address will be added automatically to the mailing list so you don't have to care about anything. If you really want to remove your address from the list write a mail to listserver@xxxx.xx.xx with this text in the first message line: signoff tcg Of course you can subscribe to the list again by sending a mail to listserver@xxxx.xx.xx with this text in the first message line: subscribe tcg YOUR_CODERSGUILD_MEMBERNAME *------------------------------------------------------ | 5. CHANGiNG hOW MESSAGES ARE SENt tO YOU *------------------------------------------------------ There are three modes with that you can change the way of how the messages are sent to you. If you want to change the mode sent a message to listserver@xxxx.xx.xx with the command of the mode in the first message line: set tcg mail ack You will get immediately every mail sent to tcg@xxxx.xx.xx set tcg mail noack The same as "ack" but you won't get the messages you posted. set tcg mail digest This is the default mode. All messages going to tcg@xxxx.xx.xx are collected and sent to you in ONE large mail at the end of the day. set tcg mail postpone You will get no mails any more until you change your mode to ack, noack or digest *------------------------------------------------------ | 6. EditiNG YOUR ACCOUNt SEttiNGS *------------------------------------------------------ To use another address when using server commands write a mail to listserver@xxxx.xx.xx with this text in the first message line: set tCG address YOURPASSWORD NEWADDRESS Replace "YOURPASSWORD" with the password that was sent to you when you joined the guild and "NEWADDRESS" with your new e-mail address. Do not replace the 3rd word, "address"! To change your password write a mail to listserver@xxxx.xx.xx, with this text in the first message line: set tCG password OLDPASSWORD NEWPASSWORD Replace "OLDPASSWORD" with your old, "NEWPASSWORD" with your new password. Do not replace the 3rd word, "password"! *------------------------------------------------------ | 7. HOW tO bEhAVE iN A MAiLiNG LiST *------------------------------------------------------ __ALWAYS__ add your e-mail address to the bottom of your mails or otherwise no one will know who wrote the mail (all mails have their origin at "tcg@xxxx.xx.xx"!)! Many mail programs offer "signature files" that do this job for you automatically. Most subscribers of the list get their mails in "digest" mode (see 5), this means one mail is listed under another in one large mail. So IF YOU REPLY to a mail in the digest list, do two things: 1. don't quote the whole digest mail but quote only the part of the digest mail that includes the message you want to reply to. 2. As many mails are sent to you as ONE mail in digest mail, the single mails have no single subjects (how could they!), only the whole digest mail has the subject "TCG digest xy". So please cut the subject of the mail you want to reply to and paste it in the subject field in the header of your reply. ======================================================= For more information consult http://www.paracatz.com/codersguild/ ----End of jaz' instruction file---- Or send a mail to either jaz@xx-xxx.xx or weasel@xxxxxxx.xxx -- Weasel mailto:weasel@xxxxxxx.xxx ICQ UIN Peter http://theWeasel.home.ml.org 5819933 Member of the Coder's Guild - http://www.paracatz.com/codersguild ----------------------------------------------------------------- If you finally see light at the end of the tunnel, it's probably a train coming towards you... ----------------------------------------------------------------- I can do my mail only on the weekend. So please be patient.
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