FISHER@RPICICGE.BITNET.UUCP (03/31/87)
As I'm sure those of you on Bitnet have figured out by now, digest
distribution to you is being handled by a list-server to cut down
on the network traffic through the Wisconsin gateway. If you care,
it is an FREPC11-style LISTSERV machine.
At any rate, for most of you the list-server does not know your name,
so the mail you receive says 'To: "(no name)" <user@node>'. You may
change that by sending the command
SUBSCRIBE DIST-CPM your real name
-or- SUBSCRIBE DIST-MDM your real name
(for the Info-CPM and Info-Modems lists, respectively) to LISTSERV@RPICICGE.
The command can be sent either as a RFC822 mail file or as an interactive
message. (For VM systems, interactive messages can be sent with the TELL
command as in
TELL LISTSERV AT RPICICGE SUBSCRIBE DIST-CPM John S. Fisher
Similar commands exist for MVS and JNET sites. I don't know about the
others.) Users with userids longer than eight characters (eg VAX) MUST
use the mail approach since interactive messages carry the userid
truncated to eight.
The list-server is a littly picky about names; "your real name" must
include at least two tokens. Just first names or just last names
are rejected.
If you have any problems related to the list-server, please direct them
to me for fastest response. (Carbon-copy to INFO-xxx-REQUEST is probably
a reasonable thing to do, also....)
And last: DO NOT SEND ANY CORRESPONDENCE TO EITHER dist-cpm OR dist-mdm.
Continue to use the INFO-xxx addresses in Arpanet.
Regards,
JSFisher FISHER@RPICICGE