Newsgroups: alt.med.cfs
Date:         Wed, 16 Dec 1992 01:40:59 EST
              <CFS-L@NIHLIST.BITNET>
From:         Roger Burns <BFU@NIHCU.BITNET>
Subject:      CFS-L Standard Announcement

                 The Occasional STANDARD ANNOUNCEMENT
                      from the CFS-L List-owner

The November message log for the CFS echo is now available.
Those who are not familiar with the logs might want to first
examine the listing of messages in the file CFS-ECHO.INDEX. See
the standard description which appears at the end of this notice.

1. Any advice which may be given on this list regarding diagnoses or
   treatments, etc., reflects ONLY the opinion of the individual
   posting the message.  Those who have CFS are urged to consult
   with a licensed health care practitioner who is familiar with the
   illness.

2. CFS patients should read the RESOURCE file available on the NIH
   file server.  Send the command GET FTP CFS.RESOURCE as the
   subject heading of an e-mail message (the text of the message is
   ignored by the file server) and send it to the Internet address
   SERVER@CU.NIH.GOV or to SERVER@NIHCU.BITNET .

3. Monthly logs of this (CFS-L) list's previous messages can be
   obtained by sending the command GET CFS-L LOG* (where * is a
   particular month, e.g., LOG9208 is the log for 1992, August) as
   the text of a message to the Internet address
   LISTSERV@LIST.NIH.GOV or LISTSERV@NIHLIST.BITNET .  Send the
   command INDEX CFS-L to the LISTSERV to see a listing of all the
   filenames available for retrieval.  Please note that commands
   sent to the LISTSERV are sent in the message text, not in the
   subject heading as required for the NIH file server; also, the
   nodename for the LISTSERV address (LIST.NIH.GOV or
   NIHLIST.BITNET) is different than the nodename for the NIH file
   server address (CU.NIH.GOV or NIHCU.BITNET).

4. All CFS-L readers are advised to also subscribe to the CFS-NEWS
   Electronic Newsletter which is issued between 1 and 4 times each
   month.  On Internet, send the subscription command SUB CFS-NEWS
   <your> <name> (where your name replaces <your> <name>) as the
   text of a message to the LISTSERV (address noted in the previous
   item).  The newsletter is also available through the Fidonet CFS
   echo, available on many BBSs, and is transmitted through the
   USENET newsgroup bit.listserv.cfs.newsletter. Back issues can be
   obtained by sending the commands INDEX CFS-NEWS and GET CFS-NEWS
   LOG* to the LISTSERV address, in the same fashion as described in
   the previous item above.

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CFS\CFS-ECHO.INDEX

December 15, 1992

The CFS "echo" (discussion group) on the Fidonet network of BBSs is a
very active electronic conference regarding CFS issues.  Message logs
of the Fidonet CFS echo are available on the NIH file server.  The
filenames and the number of records are shown below:

        Filename     #lines

   CFS-ECHO.LOG9112    268
   CFS-ECHO.LOG9201    284
   CFS-ECHO.LOG9202    557
   CFS-ECHO.LOG9203   1113
   CFS-ECHO.LOG9204   1779
   CFS-ECHO.LOG9205   2503
   CFS-ECHO.LOG9206   3081
   CFS-ECHO.LOG9207   3152
   CFS-ECHO.LOG9208   8142
   CFS-ECHO.LOG9209   8265
   CFS-ECHO.LOG9210  11212
   CFS-ECHO.LOG9211   6696

   CFS-ECHO.INDEX     1206

Each file holds the log for the designated month (LOG9201 = 1992
January, etc.) To obtain a particular file, enter the command GET FTP
CFS.* (where * is the filename in question) as the Subject heading of
an e-mail message (any message text is ignored) and send to the NIH
file server at Internet address SERVER@CU.NIH.GOV

For example, to get the first file shown above, enter the command
subject heading as follows:  GET FTP CFS.CFS-ECHO.LOG9112

To get the INDEX file which lists the messages in all the files,
enter the command subject heading:  GET FTP CFS.CFS-ECHO.INDEX

To find local BBSs that carry the CFS echo, read the file CFS-BBS.TXT
on the Project ENABLE BBS (or the RESOURCE file on the NIH server).


Roger Burns      bfu@cu.nih.gov / bfu@nihcu.bitnet   fidonet 1:109/432
Editor, CFS-NEWS Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Electronic Newsletter
   newsgroup: bit.listserv.cfs.newsletter
Listowner, CFS-L discussion
   newsgroup: alt.med.cfs
CFS-NEWS and CFS-L, both on LISTSERV at NIHLIST.BITNET or LIST.NIH.GOV
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