AO local communications guide

Contents

• E-mail aliases
• nbinews
• Who is at AO?

You can post to nbinews in the following two ways:

• Via e-mail:
  

  To send news to all NBIfAFG departments, and DSRI, send mail to "nbinews", with 
          Subject: nbinews: subject               (for general news)
          Subject: Referat subject                (for meeting accounts)
          Subject: Seminar subject                (for seminars)
          Subject: Referat (ps) subject           (for PostScript)
          Subject: Referat (tex) subject          (for TeX/LaTeX)
          Subject: Seminar (tex) subject          (for TeX/LaTeX)
  
  Some systems are able to show TeX and PostScript as bitmapped graphics on
  X-displays.  TeX files are also saved as ascii files (stripped of tex commands).
  "nbinews" is a local mail alias name which expands to a list of addresses:
  
          office@astro.ku.dk              Astronomy (i.e. AO)
          office@dsri.dk                  Danish Space Research Inst
          office@gfy.ku.dk                Geophysics (not active)
          office@fys.ku.dk                Oersted Lab
          office@info.nbi.dk              Blegdamsvej, UNIX
          office@nbi.dk                   Blegdamsvej+TAL, VAX
  
  To limit the distribution, just send explicitly to the relevant "office"
  addresses.
  

  (Note: The above is from way back; is Geophysics stil not active, and hasn't TAC been added?)

  Example: You are throwing a party next Friday, and you want to announce it to people at AO via nbinews. Send an e-mail to office@astro.ku.dk with the Subject header reading "nbinews: Party next Friday!!!". Note the leading "nbinews: ". To make the same announcement to the entire NBIfAFG, send the same mail with the same Subject header to nbinews@astro.ku.dk instead.
  Note, that your message is processed automatically, without any human involvement.

• Via the Web:
  Go to http://www.nbi.dk/NEWS/OTHER/nbinews_post.html and fill out the form. If you only want to send to AO, I guess you should chose "Astro" in the Distribution field. "Astro@bro" should be obsolete by now. If you want to send to the entire NBIfAFG, I guess you should chose "NBINews_distribution".

Reading nbinews at AO should be very simple, since it appears automatically when you login to machines like mira and vela. Otherwise nbinews can be invoked from the command line -- to get more info and to try it, type "nbinews nbinews".

There also seems to be a Web page at NBI about nbinews at http://www.nbi.dk/NEWS/, but from there you cannot read nbinews posted to AO only.

Who is at AO?

• Plain list, maintained by "office", i.e./e.g. Randi M°ller (randi@astro.ku.dk)

• Web list, maintained by the AO Web group (www@astro.ku.dk)

Last updated 01-Oct-1996 by milvang (page created 22-May-1996 by milvang)