jim@mit-vax.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton) (02/03/88)
This was sent once before to XPERT, but it didn't seem to make it all the way through the gateway onto comp.windows.x, so I'm retransmitting it from the other direction. The stuff on setting up redistribution points is important. -Jim As a result of the recent X Conference, there are a number of X related mailing lists sprouting up. To provide coherence of addresses (both for sending mail to the lists and for getting yourself on a list, generating lists of lists, etc.), we're volunteering to maintain the various lists on EXPO, the MIT X Consortium's server machine. The "ximage" and "xfont" lists have already taken us up on this offer, and I've sent mail to several other list maintainers. If you are forming an X mailing list, please consider allowing us to keep the master copy on EXPO. Just send mail to "lists-request@expo.lcs.mit.edu" with the desired name, and the electronic address in domain form for any initial members. As this is likely to place a fairly substantial mail load, I'll make a plea for a few simple guidelines for people to follow when subscribing to a list: 1. Ask around your organization to see if there is already a local redistribution. If there is, all you have to do is get on the list locally. 2. If there isn't a local redistribution for the list, set one up and send mail to the appropriate topic-request list with the internet domain style address for your redistribution. The goal: to send just one copy of each piece of mail to a given company or university. 3. Mail sent to a topic-request address should have the first word of the subject line be TOPIC, in caps, so that it can be distinguished. For example, mail sent to ximage-request should have XIMAGE be the first word, and mail sent to list-request should have LIST be the first word. Make sure that the return address to be used is EXPLICITLY given in the body of the message. For example, % mail xfont-request@expo.lcs.mit.edu Subject: XFONT addition request Please add the following address to the xfont mailing list for the International Widget Company: xfont-local%mumble.widget.com@relay.cs.net ^D Case does not matter in mailing list names, although I'll be storing them in lowercase to make sorting and generating catalogues easier. UUCP sites that don't have registered domains should give a path relative to some Internet host (I will default to eddie.mit.edu since it can handle host!user@eddie.mit.edu or user%host.uucp@eddie.mit.edu). Jim Fulton | (617) 253-1428 MIT X Consortium | jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU