Newsgroups: bit.listserv.commed
Date:         Tue, 25 Aug 1992 21:45:33 EDT
From:         Comserve Support Staff <SUPPORT@RPIECS.BITNET>
Subject:      Announcement of general interest within the Comserve community
              ...

Two items in this issue:

  1.  Shakespeare Authorship Question:  An Interactive Videoconference
      with William F. Buckley, Jr. and others, September 17th.

  2.  How to cancel your hotline subscriptions (with a note on
      on address problems)

NOTE:  Please do not use a "reply" function to respond to an item in
this file.  To respond, leave your mail reading software and address
your message explicitly.  For example, if you wish to send a command to
Comserve, address your message by hand to Comserve@Rpiecs (Bitnet) or
Comserve@Vm.Ecs.Rpi.Edu (Internet).

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                  The Shakespeare Authorship Question:
                   A Live Interactive Videoconference

    GTE Corporation is presenting at 1 PM (EST) on Thursday, September
17, 1992, a live, three-hour interactive videoconference on the
Shakespeare Authorship Question entitled, "Uncovering Shakespeare:  An
Update".  Hosted by Mr. William F. Buckley, Jr., the program will
present new archival discoveries.  Guests include scholars, arts
critics, theater professionals, and journalists, such as Professors
David Bevington and Felicia Londre; arts critic Charles Champlin; Father
Francis Edwards, SJ; Charles Vere, Earl of Burford; U. S. Ambassador
Paul Nitze, and others.

    Those interested in viewing the broadcast must do so through
institutional registration.  If your organization does not have an
on-site satellite dish -- C or Ku-band compatible -- GTE will assist you
in logistics.

    Institutional registration is $450.00.  Registrations must be
received by September 11.  For more information, or to register, call
1-800-828-3465 Extension BARD.

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             How to Cancel a Comserve Hotline Subscription

    The Comserve system governs access to more than 25 public hotlines
(e.g., MassComm, PolComm, Ethno, CMC, Magazine, Interper, InterCul,
Gender, Rhetoric, Orgcomm, etc.) and provides special commands and
facilities making it possible to treat these hotlines as divisions
within a coherent service.

    The InterCom hotline ties together all other Comserve hotlines
(except Comserve's news services:  CommJobs, Newsline, and NewBooks)
making it possible for Comserve's staff to communicate efficiently and
without duplication with most hotline subscribers.  To cancel a
subscription to InterCom, first cancel all your other hotline
subscriptions.

    To review the status of your subscriptions, send this command to
Comserve:

                            Show subscriptions

    If you are receiving Comserve hotline mail but, in response to a
Show Subscriptions command, Comserve claims you have no subscriptions,
it is usually because your address has changed.  Comserve (or any other
network service) has no way of equating Jones@capricorn.rutgers.edu with
Jones@zodiac.rutgers.edu even though these may be equivalent from the
point of view of the rutgers.edu mail system.  This problem may crop up
for users of "Vax Clusters" that have been improperly configured,
assigning an address on one day of PKP21@ALBNYVX1 and on the next,
PKP21@ALBNYVX2, and on the next, PKP21@ALBNYVX3, depending on which
"cluster node" one happens to be using to access one's computer account.

    For those who use computers attached to more than one network, the
problem may also result if you used one network (e.g., Bitnet) to send
the commands that created your subscriptions and you used a different
network (e.g., Internet) when sending your Show Subscriptions command.
From Comserve's point of view Jones@Rpiecs and Jones@Rpiecs.Rpi.Edu are
separate users; a "Show Subscriptions" command sent from Jones@Rpiecs
would not reveal hotline subscriptions created from the address
Jones@Rpiecs.Rpi.Edu.  If you find that you can no longer control your
subscriptions, write to Comserve's staff at Support@Rpiecs (Bitnet) or
Support@Vm.Ecs.Rpi.Edu (Internet) for help in tracking down and
eliminating your out of date user records and hotline subscriptions.
Then contact your computer center and register your displeasure at this
unnecessary inconvenience.

    To cancel one hotline subscription, send this command to Comserve:

                   Dropout place_name_of_hotline_here

     for example:

                            Dropout Orgcomm

    To cancel all your subscriptions at once, send this command to
    Comserve:

                              Dropout All

    For more information about commands and functions related to
    Comserve's hotline system, send this message to Comserve:

                          Help Topics Hotlines

    Remember: Do not use a "reply" function to send these messages to
              Comserve.  Address your message explicitly.  Comserve's
              address was given at the beginning of this issue.

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    InterCom and Newsline are services of the Communication Institute
for Online Scholarship (CIOS), a not-for-profit (U.S. Federal Tax Code
501(c)(3)) organization supporting the integration of information
technologies in the communication discipline worldwide.  You can support
Comserve and the CIOS and help to determine their future development by
becoming a CIOS Associate member.  For more information, send this
message to Comserve:

                         Help Topics Associates
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