Monthly Help File

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WELCOME TO THE EPRIME MAILING LIST!!

This list is open to all users of E-Prime or researchers interested in
considering use of E-Prime. It is maintained by Brian MacWhinney in the
Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. Development and
support of this list is funded by grant 9972437 from the Division of
Undergraduate Education of the National Science Foundation.

An archive of this list is maintained by Anthony Aristar's Linguist List
system at http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/eprime.html  Thanks to
Anthony for providing us with this additional facilitiy.

The list is not maintained by Psychology Software Tools, the developers of
E-Prime. It is an independent forum open to the general community of
researchers in Experimental Psychology and related fields. However, employees
of PST are encouraged to participate fully in the discussions on this
list.#000#

We hope that this list will help people understand the use of E-Prime, gain
access to specific implementations of experiments, and share ideas regarding
the use of E-Prime and related methods in teaching Experimental Psychology.
Although the focus of the list is on the use of E-Prime, discussion of other
experiment generation systems is occasionally appropriate.  However, this
discussion should be focused not on product comparison, but on assessment of
alternative methods of creating experiments and teaching experimental methods.

The list is maintained by Brian MacWhinney (macw at cmu.edu).  Other materials
related to the interests of the list can be accessed at
http://step.psy.cmu.edu which is the server for the proposed System for the
Teaching of Experimental Psychology (STEP).

Because this list is not moderated, it is important that people exercise
self-restraint in posting.  In particular, it is not appropriate to post
commercial messages or to use the list for discussion of subjects that do not
relate to experimental psychology.

Please read the list guidelines (see above) before engaging in discussion. In
addition, familiarize yourself with how the list operates, especially if
you've never participated in an Internet email discussion group before. It's a
good idea to save this message somewhere so you know how to unsubscribe.


QUICK INSTRUCTIONS

To subscribe, send a message to eprime at step.psy.cmu.edu with the subject
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To get a list of detailed instructions, send a message to
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DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS

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COMMANDS and POSTS. Unlike traditional list software which require the use of
numerous email addresses, we have simplified the process by allowing for both
COMMANDS and POSTS to be sent to the SAME address.

The following commands are accepted:

--- Subscribe

To add yourself to the list, send a message to the list address with subject
"Subscribe".  Your name will be added to the list of subscribers.  You will
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of available files as well as instructions for retrieving them via e-mail.

--- Help

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CONTACTING A HUMAN

If you have problems using these commands, you should contact Brian MacWhinney
at macw at cmu.edu