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- ----- 4D Email Group -----
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- This email group was created to provide users and developers a
- forum to ask questions, bounce ideas, and expand members
- knowledge of ACI's 4th Dimension. This is an informal group,
- with no rules except proper email etiquette.
-
- If you are in doubt of what proper email etiquette entails
- either do:
-
- an anonymous FTP to isig.mit.edu, and get the file
-
- Primer/usenet-primer.
-
- There are other very useful Internet based documents in
- the /Primer directory.
-
- or if you *don't* have FTP access send a request to:
-
- sholden@cod.nosc.mil for the usenet-primer
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- How many people are in the group? (as of May 1993): 330
-
- Increase since Jan. 1993: 123
-
- What is the make-up of the group? (approximation):
-
- Jan. 1993 May 1993
- Education 49% 43%
- Commercial 18% 25%
- Military 3% 2%
- Government 6% 5%
- Other* 24% 25%
-
- * sites that do not end in .edu, .com, .mil, and .gov.
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- Subscription from Internet:
-
- To subscribe to ACI 4D digest, send the command:
-
- subscribe 4d-digest
-
- in the body of a message to "majordomo@isig.mit.edu." If you
- want to subscribe something other than the account the mail
- is coming from, such as a local redistribution list, then
- append that address to the "subscribe" command; for example,
- to subscribe "4d-hackers":
-
- subscribe 4d-digest 4d-hackers@your.domain.net
-
- If you prefer to receive each message instead of a digest,
- you should send the command "subscribe 4d" in the body of a
- message to "majordomo@isig.mit.edu."
-
- Posting to the whole group from Internet:
-
- Mail your post to:
-
- 4d@isig.mit.edu
-
- If you have any problems with the mailing list, please contact:
-
- - 4d-owner@isig.mit.edu
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- Subscription from non-Internet sources:
-
- To subscribe from CompuServe (CI$) you need to send an
- email message in this format:
-
- > internet:majordomo@isig.mit.edu (entered at
- 'Send to:' prompt)
-
- To subscribe from America On-Line (AOL) you need to send
- an message in this format:
-
- majordomo@isig.mit.edu (entered in the normal
- screenname field)
-
- To subscribe from AppleLink (AL) you need to send an email
- message in this format:
-
- majordomo@isig.mit.edu@internet#
-
- Posting to the whole group from non-Internet sources:
-
- CompuServe (CI$):
-
- > internet:4d@isig.mit.edu
-
- America On-Line (AOL):
-
- 4d@isig.mit.edu
-
- AppleLink (AL):
-
- 4d@isig.mit.edu@internet#
-
- WARNING: The above services may or may not have some sort of
- service fee for send and receive email to Internet.
- And may frown upon joining an email list.
-
- If you are having troubles, please contact the
- respective email help provided by the service.
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- There are now two 4D ftp sites:
-
- The first is at:
-
- - sumex-aim.stanford.edu (36.44.0.6)
-
- Everything is in the directory:
- - info-mac/dev/a4d (which is read only)
-
- Send uploads and questions to:
- - breck@kirk.ecs.umass.edu (Liam Breck)
-
- If you are having troubles contact:
- - Liam at above address, or
- - Info-Mac-Request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
-
- This archive is accesible by anonymous ftp to it and its
- mirror sites around the world (wuarchive@wustl.edu is a
- US mirror). It can also be accessed with gopher and the
- Internet email ftp server.
-
- The second is at:
- - bu.edu or (128.197.27.7)
-
- Everything is in the directory:
- - /mac/4d
-
- Send uploads or if you are having problems to:
- - kalena@bu.edu (Karen R. Sabog)
-
- The bu.edu site is a mirror ftp site for the 4d
- directory at sumex-aim. Also, the bu.edu site contains
- textual information like educational and retail prices, ACI
- software updates when permitted, product descriptions,
- press releases, etc.
-
- By the summer of 1993 there should be gopher and WAIS
- access to the 4D files and information.
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- The group is currently in the process of creating a Frequently
- Asked Question (FAQ) document. Contact:
-
- - breck@kirk.ecs.umass.edu (Liam Breck)
-
- for more information (expected release date is Fall 1993).
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- This basic informaiton file was created by:
-
- Steve Holden
- Macintosh System/Applications Engineer
- Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
-
- Internet: sholden@cod.nosc.mil
- Voice: (619) 553-6750
-
- If there are any changes to be made please email a request to
- the email address listed above.
-
- Please feel free to distribute this information.
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