X-Message-Number: 3777 Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 17:43:58 -0800 From: "Kevin Q. Brown" <kqb> Subject: ADMIN: CryoNet Status Update Slow Mailing List Probably the most noticeable feature of CryoNet lately is that it has been quite slow to arrive. My apologies for the inconvenience. Fortunately, this should improve soon when c2.org (the host machine for cryonet.org) upgrades its Internet connection to 28.8 K and gets some other system upgrades. Until the digest delivery speed improves there is a work-around, though. Archive retrieval email has higher priority than regular mailing list digest email. If you need to see the messages before your mailing list digest arrives, estimate what the next few message numbers are likely to be and then send an archive retrieval request for them. For example, if you haven't seen the Mon. Jan. 30 digest, and you recall that the next message number is 3771, then send email to: with the Subject line: CRYOMSG 377[1-9] to retrieve messages 3771 through 3779 (or whichever ones in that range exist). Note: CRYOMSG requests sent to "", "", and several other cryonet.org email addresses will work, too. If, for some reason, you prefer to do your archive retrieval with a Majordomo-style "get" request rather than a CRYOMSG request, then your email needs to go to "" and the "get 377[1-9]" needs to go in the message _body_ rather than the Subject line. Hint: Small archive retrieval requests will arrive faster than large archive retrieval requests. Also, please do not swamp cryonet.org with a large number of these archive retrieval requests. Posting to CryoNet I have made it easier to post to CryoNet. Of course, you still can post by sending your email to: (Email sent to "" does _not_ need to have "CRYONICS" in the Subject line to get posted automatically to CryoNet.) For those people whose mailers insist on replying back to the sender of the digests () rather than , the CryoNet software now automatically forwards to the mailing list any email sent to the address "" that also has "CRYONICS" (in capital letters) in the Subject line. ** I also will be setting the "Reply-To:" field of the email header to "". For those people whose mail programs understand the "Reply-To:" field, that change will make posting to CryoNet easier. (Hopefully, people's vacation auto-reply programs don't use the "Reply-To:" field.) Kevin Q. Brown ** The software doesn't forward automatically _all_ email sent to because the bounced email and vacation program auto-reply email go to that address. Fortunately, since none of the CryoNet digests have "CRYONICS" in the Subject line, those messages can be forwarded automatically without causing a mail loop. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=3777