X-Message-Number: 382 From: Kevin Q. Brown Subject: mailing list on automatic Date: 18 Jul 1991 From hos1cad!kqb Thu Jul 18 17:38 EDT 1991 remote from whscad1 To: whscad1!kqb Subject: CRYONICS mailing list on automatic I will be off-line approximately July 22 - Aug. 3 for a much-needed (and well-deserved) vacation. During this time the cryonics mailing list will be run entirely in automatic mode. When run in this mode, my software will examine all incoming mail messages and only those messages with a "Subject" line with the word CRYONICS (in CAPITAL letters) will be queued automatically for a mailblast to the mailing list. For example, if the latest cryonics message sent was number 390 and a message with the line: Subject: CRYONICS reanimation achieved! arrives, then my mail-handling software will generate a mailblast to the mailing list with the line: Subject: cryonics #391 - reanimation achieved! Note that since the cryonics mailing list mailblasts use the word "cryonics" in lower case in the subject lines, a simple "reply" command to me will not result in a message that gets distributed to the mailing list. This will help ensure that submissions to the mailing list have to be deliberate rather than accidental. This is great when it works, but, considering that email is certainly less than 100% reliable, what can you do when it does not work? A new capability of the mailing list software may help. If you send a "neuro message" (header only, no body) to me with the "Subject" line "CRYOMSG" (in CAPITAL letters), the software will (attempt to) send back to you a list of the latest email messages mailblasted to the mailing list. (The software will use the "From" field in the header of your "CRYOMSG" message as the email address for the reply. This usually, but not always, is a working email address.) Thus, if you submit a "CRYONICS" message and do not get it mailblasted back to you within a few days, send a "CRYOMSG" message and see if your message was indeed received and mailblasted or if it never was received at all. (Of course, if your "CRYOMSG" query is not answered you still have no idea what is happening with the mailing list.) If the list of recent messages includes one that you did not receive, then send to me email with a "Subject" line of the form "CRYOMSG xxx", where "xxx" is the number of the message you want. The software then will (attempt to) send to you that message (rather than a list of the last few messages sent to the mailing list). Oh yes, if you want two or messages, use a subject line of the form "CRYOMSG xxx yyy ... zzz" with message numbers separated by spaces. Enjoy the increasingly automated cryonics mailing list! - Kevin Q. Brown ...att!whscad1!kqb FYI: If you send to me a message with a "Subject" line that specifies a non-numeric message name such as "CRYOMSG ../secret/paper", the software will just ignore that non-numeric message name rather than sending to you the "secret/paper" that you hoped to receive. ;-) Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=382