FW: unsubscribe

[Gillies, Lindsay]

FYI re unsubscribing...
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From: Jody Keith Gilbert
Date: Wednesday, November 15, 1995 3:04PM


If you don't think you are hearing anything from the list, the
quickest way to find out what is going on it to try to resubscribe.
If you are still on the list you will be given an automatically
generated message message saying so.  If not, you will be
resubscribed.  Here is the subscription info again.

 pynchon-l is now run under a program at sfu called Majordomo.

Contents:
1. Majordomo, subscribing
2. Archives



                            1. Majordomo

Majordomo is a piece of software used for managing mailing lists. To
manage a list you send e-mail requests to majordomo at sfu.ca (or
mailing-lists at sfu.ca if you find that easier to remember).

The are two types of lists, OPEN and CLOSED, the distinction being
whether people are free to join themselves into the list (open) or
whether the owner controls who should be a member (closed).

pynchon-l is at present an open list and will remain that
way until I am provided with a good reason to screen
members.

People "subscribe" to OPEN lists directly (and "unsubscribe" from
them) by sending e-mail messages to majordomo at sfu.ca.

E.g: To join pynchon-l, a person would send mail like this:

****************************************
          To: majordomo at sfu.ca

           Subject:

          subscribe pynchon-l
          end
****************************************
That is:
You send your mail to

                majordomo at sfu.ca

You needn't specify a subject.

And the entire contents of the message,
on the first line and second lines of the message are:

                subscribe pynchon-l
                end


The "end" is in case you have a sig.  "end" lets majordomo
 know that it is not to try to process the sig.

unless you want to subscribe an address other
than the one you are sending from, in which case
the entire contents of the message,
on the first and second lines of the message are:

                subscribe pynchon-l youraddresshere at your.site
                end


unsubscribe follows the same procedure except that you cannot
unsubscribe
from a different address than that from which you are mailing.

The commands that you might need to know concerning majordomo and
pynchon-l are:

    subscribe <list> [<address>]        Subscribe yourself (or
<address> if specified) to the named <list>.

    unsubscribe <list> [<address>]        Unsubscribe yourself (or
<address> if specified) from the named <list>.

Archives are available at http://www.pomona.edu/pynchon/index.html.

We do NOT have the ability to set an AUTOMATIC GROUP REPLY
so you must take care to reply to the GROUP yourself if
that is what you wish to do rather than replying to the INDIVIDUAL
sending the message.

REMEMBER that messages sent to the list are to be sent to pynchon-l at sfu.ca.


                                   2.Archives

If you would like the  pynchon-l archives, just go to the
San Narcisco Community College Thomas Pynchon
home page at http://www.pomona.edu/pynchon/index.html
or Andrew Dinn's archive at
http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~andrew/pynchon-l.html
or if all else fails, ask me at gilbert at sfu.ca.


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John (Jody) K. Gilbert
Department of English
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C. Canada
V5A 1S6
office phone (604) 291-5517
dept. phone  (604) 291-3136
internet     gilbert at sfu.ca
home page    http://www.sfu.ca/english/hmpgs/jkg.html