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- AMK's and Peti's Amiga ListSERV help page (30 July 1996)
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-
- You can subscribe or unsubscribe to any of the various local mailing lists
- by sending mail to <listserv@foo.bar>; of course, you have to replace
- "foo.bar" with the site-name you get this help page from.
-
- The commands understood by the ListSERV program are:
-
- HELP
- Lists this file. This is also sent whenever a message to ListSERV
- is received from which no valid command could be parsed.
-
- HELP listname
- Lists a brief description of the list requested.
-
- LIST [address]
- Lists all mailing lists to which the given address is subscribed.
- If you omit the 'address' the command will assume the mailbox is
- in the from line.
-
- INDEX
- Lists all the lists available for subscription.
-
- LONGINDEX
- Lists all the lists and their descriptions.
-
- ADD [address] listname
- DELETE [address] listname
- Adds or deletes the given address to or from the list specified.
- Mail is sent to the address given to confirm the add or delete
- operation. If you omit the 'address' the command will assume the
- mailbox that is in the From: line of the message. Note that
- SUBSCRIBE is a synonym for ADD; UNSUBSCRIBE for DELETE.
-
- DELETE-ALL [address]
- UNSUBSCRIBE-ALL [address]
- Unsubscribes given address from all mailing lists. Mail is sent
- the address given to confirm the deletions. If you omit the
- 'address' the command will assume the mailbox that is in the
- From: line of the message.
-
- FAQ [listname]
- Sends a list of "Frequently Asked Questions" for the appropriate
- mailing list. If the listname parameter is omitted, a list of
- available FAQs is sent instead.
-
-
- A command must be the first word on each line in the message. Lines which
- do not start with a command word result in this file to be sent. If no
- commands were found in the entire message, that message is completely
- ignored. A single message may contain multiple commands; some commands may
- result in a separate reply (namely FAQ, HELP) while others will just write
- something to the logfile. You will always receive a response to any command
- found in the mail.
-
- In case you do not address the mail to listserv@foo.bar, but to
- <mailinglist>-request@foo.bar, the name of the list will be assumed as
- "mailinglist" if you omit the parameter at the ADD, DELETE, HELP and FAQ
- commands. One short example:
-
- To: Testlist-request@foo.bar
- Subject:
-
- ADD myaddress@mysite
- FAQ
-
- will add myaddress@mysite to the "Testlist" and send the FAQ back in
- return. You see, it's not possible to get the list of available FAQs when
- mailing to a "-request" address, because ListSERV will try to send the
- specific FAQ out.
-
- Please note that it IS possible to add or delete someone else's
- subscription to a mailing list. This facility is provided so that
- subscribers may alter their own subscriptions from a new or different
- computer account. There is therefore some potential for abuse; I have
- chosen to limit this by mailing a confirmation notification of any addition
- or deletion to the address added or deleted including a copy of the message
- which requested the operation. At least you can find out who's doing it to
- you.
-
- Examples:
-
- add niftylist
- delete joe@uunet.uu.net junkylist
- help eggbeaters
-
- Note that you mail submissions to a mailing list by addressing mail to the
- list's name at this site (e.g., niftylist@foo.bar). If you have any
- questions or need assistance, you can send mail to postmaster@foo.bar for a
- human answer.
-
-