SEELANGS Summer Administrivia

[Alex Rudd]

Dear SEELANGS Members,

It's getting very near the time when many subscribers to this list leave town, for the summer 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 these commands, always address your e-mail  to:

LISTSERV at BAMA.UA.EDU

Include the command in the BODY of the message.  You can put anything you want in the Subject line, but LISTSERV will ignore it.

-    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 summer, 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'll want to send the following command when you return:

SET SEELANGS MAIL

This will tell LISTSERV that you wish to resume normal use of the list, and you will be set back to your normal setting, whether that's MAIL, DIGEST or INDEX.

Note that this same thing can be accomplished by using the SEELANGS Web interface.  Go to the web site, which is:

http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/     

and, after you've registered your LISTSERV password and/or logged in, just click on "Subscriber's Corner."  On that page, scroll down to the section labeled "Miscellaneous," select the box marked "Mail delivery disabled temporarily" and then click on "Update options."  Starting the mail again is as easy as deselecting that box and updating your options.

This list is archived on the LISTSERV server 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 LOG0906

If you sent that command (at some point after June 30), LISTSERV would send you all the posts to the list which appeared in June, 2009 (hence the LOG0906).

You can also search the archives and retrieve only those posts you really want to see.  Just visit the SEELANGS Web interface and click on "Search the Archives."

As always, if you have any questions regarding LISTSERV or your subscription to SEELANGS, please send them off-list directly to the list owners' address, which is:

SEELANGS-Request at BAMA.UA.EDU

Thanks.

- Alex, list owner of SEELANGS
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Alex Rudd
List owner e-mail: seelangs-request at bama.ua.edu
Personal e-mail: Alex.Rudd at gmail.com
http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/
Any opinion expressed above is not necessarily shared by my employers.
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