[comp.text.desktop] Administrivia and dtp archives

chuq@sun.uucp (02/24/88)

A couple of bits of administrivia and an announcment.

First, you might notice some changes to the headers of the mail messages.
Among other things, I finally cleaned up the from line to show it coming
from the desktop-request address rather than me. These changes should be
more or less transparent, but let me know if you run into any glitches.

And, a quick reminder. Do not send administrivia to the desktop address. 
Send it to desktop-request. I'm starting to get a regular stream of
misplaced messages, which simply make it harder for me to get this list
administrated and delays the completion of the request. Desktop is
fortunate in that a human reads messages before they go out, and can
intercept this mis-placed missives. If you do that with other groups, your
messages get broadcasted to the world, wasting lots of resources, money, and
making you the lauging stock of the network. So, be careful, and follow the
instructions.

Also, be aware that I will not accept "for sale" messages on desktop. So
please don't bother sending them. 

Finally, the announcement. The archives for the desktop group are finally
available, thanks to Brian Reid's archive server. To get access to the
archives, send mail to archive-server@plaid.sun.com. Instructions are
available by doing the following:

% mail archive-server@plaid.sun.com
Subject: help

^d
%

To get the main index, do:

% mail archive-server@plaid.sun.com
Subject: index

^d
%

To get the desktop index, replace "index" with "index desktop" in the
previous example.

The system seems to be up and running fine, but pass along problems you
might have. Please do NOT send archive-server requests to me directly, to
desktop, or to desktop-request. Please send them to the server. Also, be
aware that the archives are currently rather large, each file being about
100K bytes. This makes sending them over uucp addresses a potential problem.
I'll look at re-arranging them into smaller chunks in my copious free time....


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Submissions to: desktop@plaid.sun.com
Administrivia to: desktop-request@plaid@sun.com
UUCP: {amdahl,decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4}!sun!plaid!desktop{-request}