robison@shell.com (Arch D. Robison) (11/15/90)
Please add me to the 'gnu.g++.help' mailing list. My network address is: robison@shell.com Arch D. Robison (713)-663-2240 Shell Development Company
tower@AI.MIT.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) (11/16/90)
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 90 07:32:46 CST From: robison@shell.com (Arch D. Robison) Please add me to the 'gnu.g++.help' mailing list. My network address is: robison@shell.com Arch D. Robison (713)-663-2240 Shell Development Company gnu.g++.help is not a mailing list but a newsgroup. It's gated with the mailing list help-g++@prep.ai.mit.edu, which I assume is the mailing list you wish to join. One joins mailing lists by asking the -request address for the list. In this case help-g++-request@prep.ai.mit.edu, which is Cc:ed above. The address you used: gnu.g++.help@prep.ai.mit.edu is part of the gateway implementation and is roughly eqivalent to help-g++@prep.ai.mit.edu. Your message has thus reached all the readers of the list, but not the person who manages the list. Note rlk's advice about all this, that I have appended. thanx -len Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1986 18:44 EST From: "Robert L. Krawitz" <RLK@oz.ai.mit.edu> To: info-nets@oz.ai.mit.edu Subject: Sending requests to the list at large and other administrivia Recently, a number of people have requested to be removed by sending mail to the list as a whole. This is very bad practice. First of all, the address info-nets-request exists for that purpose. In fact, the -request convention is standard throughout the arpanet, to solve this problem. Secondly, sending mail to the list reaches at least 300 recipients, very likely more than that, since I have no idea how large the various redistribution lists are (there are perhaps 250 actual addresses on the top-level list). Thirdly, there is no reason why info-nets mail should go to the same addresses. For all anyone knows, I don't read info-nets (in fact, I do; it would be poor practice not to), the mail goes to completely independent addresses (this is in fact true), or I may have written a program to automatically process requests (I haven't). It is still more convenient to me to process requests to info-nets-request than to info-nets. So, please remember to post administrative requests to <list-name>-request rather than to <list name>; specifically info-nets-request rather than info-nets. I deliberately have not yet processed the requests that went to info-nets rather than to info-nets-request; I would like those people to read this message. Robert Krawitz info-nets-request