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Date:         Tue, 10 Nov 1992 14:08:00 EST
From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject:      way back when...
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.EDU

Another item from the Pitt e-bulletin boards.  This comes from a reorganization
of the VAX NOTES 'Amiable' discussion by its moderator/owner.  He must have
deleted quite a few messages, but some interesting ones were retained.  Seems
to narrow down my date of subscription to WORDS-L pretty well.  Note the dire
warning about mail volume at the end...


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Note 4.7                            language                            7 of 122
CISVMS::TRAVEN "Baseball been bery bery good to me"   7 lines   8-NOV-1989 13:05
                            -< another curious one >-
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    I sent a BITNET message to ESSA@YALEVM, as suggested by GAF.  The
    response was that I should use that "LISTSERV AT YALEVM" construction
    to join it.  But how do we do that?  There is no "TELL" command
    that I've ever seen.  Did GAF mean "TEL," which is short for "TELNET"?
    That doesn't work.

    So give us some clues, GAF.
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Note 4.8                            language                            8 of 122
CISVMS::GAF "Gerald Flotta"                          11 lines   8-NOV-1989 15:39
                                 -< Try this >-
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     Use the SEND command instead of TELL.

     Example:  send listserv@yalevm subscribe words-l Neal Traven

     This should work.  This is the command line I used, however when
     an acknowledgement was sent to me it indicated that my name was
     in all UPPERCASE.  No great harm.

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Note 4.9                            language                            9 of 122
CISVMS::TRAVEN "Baseball been bery bery good to me"    1 line   8-NOV-1989 17:38
                                 -< ahhhhaaaa >-
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    Ohhhhh, that explains it.  Much better.  Thanks.
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Note 4.11                           language                           11 of 122
CISVMS::GAF "Gerald Flotta"                           9 lines   9-NOV-1989 10:50
                            -< This happens next. >-
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    Now what happens?  You will receive VMS mail from the list WORDS-l
    over BITNET.  You may respond if you wish, or just sit back and enjoy
    the articles.  The last I heard was that WORDS-L is a moderated
    list.  This was done to cut down on the number of articles sent
    every day.  Also, you will receive information on how to unsubscribe
    as well.  There are other commands (to be sent to the listserv)
    such as INDEX which will supply an index of archived, usually by
    month, articles.

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Note 4.12                           language                           12 of 122
CISVMS::ARIJIT "Punned-it"                           10 lines   9-NOV-1989 17:04
                                  -< volume >-
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< Note 4.11 by CISVMS::GAF "Gerald Flotta" >says:
                            -< This happens next. >-

    Now what happens?  You will receive VMS mail from the list WORDS-l
    over BITNET.  You may respond if you wish, or..

Beware! I received LARGE VOLUMES OF MAIL when I was on such a
mailing list myself some years ago. The usual login message
was "You have 14 new mail messages!"





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