From: welty@cabot.balltown.cma.com (richard welty)
Subject: Automotive Article Archive Server
Followup-To: rec.autos
Keywords: Monthly Posting
Reply-To: welty@cabot.balltown.cma.com (richard welty)
Organization: New York State Institute for Sebastian Cabot Studies
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 04:00:41 GMT


Archive-name: rec-autos/part3

The Automotive Articles Archive Server:

There is an archive of useful articles located on skipper.balltown.cma.com;
this server is not directly accessible from the internet, but instead
may be queried via email.

The archive is automated; it is rarely examined by its human
maintainers, unless it crashes or email is received suggesting
that there is a problem.  Keep in mind that network mail is not
entirely reliable, and archive requests may fail because the
return addresses included in said requests may not be in a form
which an automated system can handle.  The amount of time that
the archive maintainers have to deal with such problems is quite
limited, especially since most of the mail problems which arise
are beyond their control and beyond any corrective action that
they are in a position to take.

What follows is the current help message for the Archive server:

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This is the help file for the Rec.Autos/Rec.Audio archiver.

This archive contains a number of articles on topics of interest to readers
of the aforementioned newsgroups.  These articles are (hopefully) updated
regularly.  They cover a wide variety of topics, and an effort is made to
insure that they are factually correct and well documented.

To obtain articles from the archive server, a mail message should be sent
to `archive@cabot.balltown.cma.com'.  The Subject: field in the message
header should contain one of the commands described below.  The archive
server ignores the content of the bodies of mail messages.

Articles are available in the following categories:

Audio
Autos
Autos.Sport
Autos.Tech
Autos.British   (the british-cars mailing list archive)
Autos.Italian   (the italian-cars mailing list archive)
Autos.Mazda     (the mazda mailing list archive; this archive
                     is not currently active)
Autos.VW        (the VW mailing list archive)
Autos.Waste-o   (wit and wisdom of Waste-o)
History         (for the Soc.History newsgroup; this archive
                     is not currently active)

The following commands are supported:

Help

The Help command mails a copy of this file to the requestor.

Index <category>

The Index command is used to obtain a list of articles which are currently
available from the server for a given category.  For example, the command
`Index Autos.Sport' would return the index of articles available for that
category.

Get <category> <article-list>

The Get command is used to obtain one or more articles from the server.
For Example, `Get Autos Monthly' would return a copy of the monthly
information posting for rec.autos, rec.autos.tech, and rec.autos.sport.
The <article-list> is simply a list of article names, separated by
commas and/or whitespace.  `Get Autos Monthly,Monthly, Monthly Monthly'
would return four individually wrapped copies of the monthly rec.autos.*
article.  All articles requested must be from the same category.  Use
the Index command to obtain the article names for use with this command.

Commands are case-insensitive.  Extra whitespace is ignored.

Replys may sometimes present problems.  The article server always prefers
addresses in Reply-to: lines to addresses in From: lines.  Unlike most
mailers, it will pick Reply-To: lines from the body of a mail message, and
always prefers the last Reply-To: line to ones given earlier.   Therefore,
if there are addressing problems (particularly if a mailer is rewriting
addresses in an incorrect manner), a user may override the behavior of
intervening mail routers and provide a proper address for the archiver to
try and use.

Note that the performance of mixed form addresses (e.g., address with
both ! style paths and @ style paths) is likely to be EXTREMELY poor; use
of paths containing only one or the other is recommended.


This server is maintained by richard welty (welty@cabot.balltown.cma.com)
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA