JAR@ML.AI.MIT.EDU (Jonathan A Rees) (10/29/87)
I've gotten tired of saying the same things over and over again, so I have prepared a Scheme list "policy statement". I'll send this to every new person who joins the list at MIT. Most of you have probably heard all this before, so you can ignore it. ---------- General information about the Scheme mailing list: - The list is not moderated. If you send mail to scheme@mc.lcs.mit.edu, it will be forwarded to the hundreds (thousands?) of list members on the ARPA Internet, CSNET, BITNET, Usenet, JUNET, etc. If you have any doubt about the suitability of your message for this audience, send it to scheme-request@mc.lcs.mit.edu instead, and your message will be either answered or forwarded. - Do not send messages concerning MIT's scheme implementation (C Scheme) to the list; users of the many other Scheme implementations don't care to see such messages. There is a separate list, info-cscheme%oz@mc.lcs.mit.edu, for this purpose. To be added to that list, send mail to info-cscheme-request%oz@mc.lcs.mit.edu. - Send administrative requests to scheme-request@mc.lcs.mit.edu, NOT to JAR. If your machine is scheduled to change its name or routing, or to go off the net, or if you move, please send mail to scheme-request so your entry can be changed. - Every week, several addresses on the scheme list stop working, and error reports are sent back to the message's sender or to scheme-request. If a message you send gets bounced, forward the error report to scheme-request. Bad addresses on the list can't be tolerated; THEY WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE LIST WITHOUT NOTICE. Your address may become invalid due to no fault of your own, and/or without your being aware of it. For example, if your system becomes inaccessible from the Internet for a week, of if it changes its name, messages to you will bounce, and your entry will be removed from the list. If you don't get any scheme messages for, say, three or four weeks, you might want to send a message to scheme-request to verify that you're still on. - If there's more than one person at your site who wants to be on the list, please set up a local redistribution list. - The list is archived in the following files: LSPMAI; SCHEME MAIL1 on host AI.AI.MIT.EDU [oldest messages] LSPMAI; SCHEME MAIL2 on host AI.AI.MIT.EDU LSPMAI; SCHEME MAIL on host MC.LCS.MIT.EDU [newest messages] Note that there are spaces in these filenames, so you may have to type double quotes at your FTP program. If you don't have Internet FTP access, tough luck. - There is a file on host AI.AI.MIT.EDU, "LSPMAI; SCHEME IMPLS", that has brief descriptions of available scheme implementations and how to get them. If you want a copy of this file, but you don't have Internet FTP access, send a request to scheme-request.