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This article is from the Scuba Diving
FAQ, by njs@scifi.maid.com (Nick Simicich) with numerous
contributions by others.
21 They are cutting off my rec.scuba newsfeed.
What can I do to still get rec.scuba?
There are two ways to get scuba related mail. Both involve the bitnet
listserv system, and both are run from Brown University. The LISTSERV
administrator there is Catherine Yang, but these things are designed
to be administered automatically. The two lists are scuba-d, which
holds the scuba digests that are constructed from the postings to
rec.scuba, and scuba-l which is a completely independent scuba related
discussion list. There are some scuba-d archives available at
http://scifi.squawk.com/digests.
You never send subscribe or unsubscribe requests to the address of the
list. In fact, if you do, they will be relayed to all of the people
who get stuff from the list (and probably ignored). To sign onto or
sign off from a listserv list, you send mail to userid LISTSERV. For
example, to sign on to scuba-d so that you still get the rec.scuba
postings, send mail to LISTSERV@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU, with the text:
SUB scuba-d your name
You must replace the string 'your name' with your own name. To
subscribe to scuba-l, send the same message, but replace scuba-d with
scuba-l.
To find out more about how to use the listserv system, send mail to
LISTSERV with a text line that says 'HELP'. For your convenience, the
response to a HELP command is reproduced below.
If you don't have the ability to post news to rec.scuba locally, you
can mail your postings to rec-scuba@scifi.squawk.com. (This is not
a general mail-to-news gateway, it works only for a few groups in
which I have a personal interest.) This is how someone with e-mail
only access could post to rec.scuba after reading the newsgroup via
the scuba-d mailing list. To post to rec.scuba.equipment, mail your
postings to rec-scuba-equipment@scifi.squawk.com and to post to
rec.scuba.locations, mail your postings to
rec-scuba-locations@scifi.squawk.com.
The process that produces scuba-d purposely tries to delay postings
until it gets a complete thread. In particular, it will use the
References: fields and commonality of Subject: contents to try to
build a time ordered thread. It selects threads to put into a
particular digest by looking at the age of the oldest posting in a
thread. When a thread is selected for output, the entire thread is
output. Thus, postings may not come out in an order that seems
'logical', especially if people follow-up to unrelated postings. There
is a logic to it, however. A side effect of this is that the headers
come out in a different order than the postings do, in any particular
digest. All postings do eventually come out of the other end of the
pipe. Under normal circumstances, as many as four digests may be
posted per day.
Revised LISTSERV version 1.7c -- most commonly used commands
Info <topic|?> Get detailed information files
List <Detail|Short|Global> Get a description of all lists
SUBscribe listname <full_name> Subscribe to a list
SIGNOFF listname Sign off from a list
SIGNOFF * (NETWIDE - from all lists on all servers
REView listname <options> Review a list
STats listname <options> Review list statistics
Query listname Query personal distribution options
SET listname options Set personal distribution options
INDex <filelist_name> Obtain a list of LISTSERV files
GET filename filetype Obtain a file from LISTSERV
REGister full_name|OFF Tell LISTSERV about your name
There are more commands (AFD, FUI, PW, etc). Send an INFO REFCARD
for a complete reference card, or INFO ? for a list of available
documentation files.
Postmasters are:
Peter DiCamillo / ListMaint <CMSMAINT@BROWNVM>
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