SEELANGS Summer Administrivia

[Alex Rudd]

Dear SEELangers,

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 those commands, send e-mail
to:

LISTSERV at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU

Include the command in the BODY of the mail.  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 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 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://members.home.net/lists/seelangs/
     and, after you've registered your LISTSERV password and/or
     logged in, just click on "Subscription Options."  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 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 LOG0006

     If you sent that command (at some point after June 30), the
     LISTSERV would send you all the posts to the list which
     appeared in June, 2000 (hence the LOG0006).

You can also search the archives and retrieve posts you'll have missed
in other ways.  Send the command:

GET SEELANGS SEARCH

to be sent a file I wrote explaining the basics.  That file includes
instructions for searching the archives via our Web Interface.

If you send any of those commands and get a response back from
LISTSERV advising you that you are not subscribed to SEELANGS
when you know you are, it could be because your e-mail address
has changed to something other than the one from which you
originally subscribed.

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