SEELANGS Administrivia - Winter Break

[Alex Rudd]

Dear SEELangers,

It's getting very near the time when many subscribers to this list
leave town, for the winter or for good.  If you plan to be away from
your account for a protracted period of time, you may not want to
return to dozens of listserv mail messages in your mailbox.  If this
applies to you, read on for some things you can do (NOTE: you may wish
to print this out for future reference):

Below I list a few commands.  When sending those commands, send e-mail
to:

LISTSERV at CUNYVM  (Bitnet)  or   LISTSERV at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU  (Internet)

Include the command in the body of the mail (LISTSERV ignores everything
in the Subject: field).

-    If you're graduating, losing the account you're currently
     using, or otherwise giving up on this list, send the
     following command before you go:

SIGNOFF SEELANGS

     If you're subscribed to other listserv lists, you can leave
     all of them in one fell swoop by sending the following
     command:

SIGNOFF * (NETWIDE

     (note the "(" before the word NETWIDE)

-    If you're planning to be away for awhile, whether for a
     couple of weeks or for the entire winter, you may want to
     stop receiving posts from this list yet remain subscribed to
     it.  To do this, send the following command before you go:

SET SEELANGS NOMAIL

     If you SET SEELANGS NOMAIL before you left, you want to send
     the following command when you return:

SET SEELANGS MAIL

     This will tell the listserv that you wish to resume normal
     use of the list, and you will be sent copies of messages
     sent to the list as they are posted.  (NOTE: If you're
     currently set to DIGEST or INDEX and you set NOMAIL, sending
     the SET SEELANGS MAIL command will return you to DIGEST or
     INDEX.)

     This list is archived on the LISTSERV on a monthly basis.
     When you return, you can catch up on what you missed by
     using the GET command to get a month's worth of postings
     (all together in a single mailing).  For example:

GET SEELANGS LOG9512 F=MAIL

     If you sent that command (at some point after Dec. 31), the
     LISTSERV would send you all the posts to the list which
     appeared in December 1995 (hence the LOG9512).  Keep in mind,
     though, that such a file will be very long and some gateways
     will reject it for that very reason.  It probably makes more
     sense to search the archives selectively for the time period
     you were away.  Send the command GET SEELANGS SEARCH or
     INFO DATABASE for more information on searching the archives.

As always, if you have any questions regarding LISTSERV, please
send them directly to me at the address below, not to SEELANGS.
If I feel the answer may be of benefit to the entire list
membership, I may reply on the list.

Apologies to those subscribers living on the "other" side of the
equator.  Just do a personal "search and replace" on the above
message, replacing "winter" with "summer."  :)

Happy holidays to all...

- Alex Rudd, list owner of SEELANGS
  seelangs-request at cunyvm.cuny.edu