SEELANGS Administrivia - (was Re:Query: Russian & EE literary prizes)

[Alex Rudd]

On Fri, 5 May 2000 12:05:28 +0400 Alexandre Bougakov said:
>P.P.S *************** Note for the list owner *********************
>
>Why have you configured the list in such way that it rejects the
>postings that exced 500 lines - it makes the file attachments
>impossible! Server responds with such message:
>
>"Your message cannot be distributed to the SEELANGS list because it
>exceeds the maximum message size of  500 lines. This limit has been
>set by the list owner and does not necessarily apply to the other
>lists hosted at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU."

Alexandre,

When you subscribed to SEELANGS on April 18, just a short time ago,
you were sent a Welcome message.  I'm assuming you didn't read it,
but you may feel free to tell me otherwise.  In the Welcome message
you received it stated:

--- Begin ---

Attachments And Encoded Messages
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
When sending messages to SEELANGS, please use only plain
ascii text.  Do not attach executables or files, including
images or sounds.  Do not format your messages in base64,
MIME, or html.  Such formatting and use of attachments may
result in the archival of great amounts of unnecessary text,
which is a waste of our resources, and not all subscribers
use mail clients capable of decoding such things.  List members
who use Microsoft's Outlook Express should pay special
attention, as the default formatting with that program is
text/html, and a manual change in its configuration must be
made prior to posting to the list.

--- End ---

My limiting posts to 500 lines of text is precisely because
I *want* to catch attachments before they're distributed on
SEELANGS.  Attachments are large, take up unnecessary space
in our archives (a limited resource) and, as the guideline
suggests, not everyone uses an e-mail client capable of
handling binary attachments.

The most important reason we have a limit of 500 lines of
text is to catch the viruses people sometimes unwittingly
send to discussion lists when their own computers have been
infected.  Five hundred lines of text is plenty(!) for
anyone needing to post a legitimate message to SEELANGS.

In the future, we will be able to use the LISTSERV software
to catch attachments before they're distributed without
imposing any kind of size limit restriction, but that
feature is still in beta testing and we have not yet begun
to use it on the LISTSERV server at CUNY.

Finally, Alexandre, another reason I suspect you didn't read
the Welcome message is because in it, near the top, it reads:

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Any Questions?  Write to:  SEELANGS-Request at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU

--- End ---

That's the list owners' address.  In the future, if anyone ever
has any questions relating to his/her SEELANGS subscription or to
LISTSERV and its commands, please address them directly to me
and Robert, the list owners, at that address.  If we feel the
entire list may benefit from the answer, as in this case, we
may reply on the list.

If you would like your own copy of the SEELANGS Welcome message
that contains our list guidelines and information about controling
your own subscription, you can send the command:

GET WELCOME SEELANGS

in the body of e-mail to:  LISTSERV at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU

and LISTSERV will mail it to you.  If you'd prefer, you can also
find the Welcome message on the web at:

http://members.home.net/lists/seelangs/

Any questions, comments or concerns, please reply off-list.

Thanks.

- Alex, list owner of SEELANGS    seelangs-request at listserv.cuny.edu
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Alex Rudd                ahrjj at cunyvm.cuny.edu            ARS KA2ZOO
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