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About the Authorware mailing list, here's what the new maintainer
Peter Arien sent out a few days ago :

Dear AWARE-L members,

The aware-l has moved from aware-l@ukanvm.bitnet to

   AWARE@CC1.KULEUVEN.AC.BE

which (for those who want a bitnet address) is the same as

   AWARE@BLEKUL11.BITNET

What has changed? Not much.

First, the home: from UKANVM to CC1.KULEUVEN.AC.BE (=BLEKUL11.BITNET).

Second, the name: from AWARE-L to just AWARE.

Third, the description of the list: from
   Discussion of the dual platform authoring program Authorware Prof.
to
   Discussion of the authoring program Authorware Prof.
This should make it a little easier for some mailers.

So, from now on you should send your Authorware related questions and
answers to

   AWARE@CC1.KULEUVEN.AC.BE
or
   AWARE@BLEKUL11.BITNET


What else is new? Not much either :-)

First, from now on everything sent to the aware list is logged.
This means that you can ask the listserver to send you all the mailings
of a month and that you can use the listserver's database functionality
to search for a topic.

Second, those who want so can ask the listserver for a digest of the
mailing list. That means that you don't get every message as a separate
mail, but that the listserver sends you all the aware mailings as one
email message at the end of the day.

Third, there will be a gateway between this list and usenet/netnews.
This does NOT change anything for the mailing list. It only makes it
possible for people who prefer reading (and responding to) all this
via netnews to do so.

I'll explain in more detail how to use the listserv's fileserver and
database tomorrow.

Hope things work out fine. See you all tomorrow.

If you have any questions, please send them to me personally,
not to the whole list.

My email address is Peter.Arien@cc.kuleuven.ac.be


Greetings.
Peter Arien

peter.arien@cc.kuleuven.ac.be
University Computing Centre
Catholic University of Leuven
De Croylaan 52A
B-3001 Heverlee
Belgium
Tel: + 32 16 286611 (2219)
Fax: + 32 16 207168

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Next message :

Dear aware readers,

The listserver and the aware list have been behaving very well the
last two days. So now I can tell you how to use the extra functionality
of the new listserver.

Please don't throw this message away. Keep it somewhere safe.

Here are some excerpts from the text that newly subscribed members to
the list get:


>To send a message to all the people currently subscribed to the list, just send
>mail to  AWARE@CC1.KULEUVEN.AC.BE. This is  called "sending mail to  the list",
>because you send mail to a single address and LISTSERV makes copies for all the
>people  who have  subscribed. This  address (AWARE@CC1.KULEUVEN.AC.BE)  is also
>called the  "list address".

That should be obvious by now :-)

>                             You must  never try  to send  any COMMAND  to that
>address, as it would be distributed to  all the people who have subscribed. All
>commands must be  sent to the "LISTSERV  address", LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (or
>LISTSERV@CC1.KULEUVEN.AC.BE). It is very important to understand the difference
>between the two, but fortunately it is not complicated.

And still people make mistakes. If you don't get a reply from the listserver,
you can ask for help by sending email to AWARE-REQUEST@CC1.KULEUVEN.AC.BE or
to me (Peter.Arien@cc.kuleuven.ac.be). Danny Engelman (dengelman@cetis.hut.nl)
offered to help me manage the list, so you can ask him for help too.

Sending commands means: sending mail to LISTSERV@CC1.KULEUVEN.AC.BE, and putting
the command(s) in the body of the mail.

>You may  leave the list  at any  time by sending  a "SIGNOFF AWARE"  command to
>LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET  (or LISTSERV@CC1.KULEUVEN.AC.BE).

Here are some interesting things for those people who want to test their
subscription to the list!

>                                                             You can  also tell
>LISTSERV how  you want it to  confirm the receipt  of messages you send  to the
>list. If  you do not  trust the  system, send a  "SET AWARE REPRO"  command and
>LISTSERV will send  you a copy of your  own messages, so that you  can see that
>the message was distributed  and did not get damaged on the  way. After a while
>you may  find that this  is getting annoying,  especially if your  mail program
>does not  tell you that the  message is from you  when it informs you  that new
>mail has  arrived from AWARE.  If you send a  "SET AWARE ACK  NOREPRO" command,
>LISTSERV  will  mail you  a  short  acknowledgement  instead, which  will  look
>different in  your mailbox  directory. With  most mail  programs you  will know
>immediately that  this is an acknowledgement  you can read later.  Finally, you
>can turn off acknowledgements completely with "SET AWARE NOACK NOREPRO".


Another interesting SET command, is the SET AWARE DIGEST command. This will tell
the listserver that you don't want to receive individual messages, but daily
DIGESTS. To change this again from DIGEST to MAIL, you send the command
SET AWARE MAIL.

Here's what the listserv told me when I sent the SET AWARE DIGEST command:

  >> set aware digest
  >
  >Your subscription options have been successfully updated. Here are the exact
  >settings now  in use  for your  subscription. Please take  a few  moments to
  >check that this is indeed what you wanted.
  >
  >Subscription options for Peter Arien <peter.arien@CC.KULEUVEN.AC.BE>, list
  >AWARE: Ack=No, Mail=Digests, Files=Yes, Repro=No, Header=Short, Renewal=Yes,
  >Conceal=No     ^^^^^^^^^^^^


>Contributions sent to this list are  automatically archived. You can get a list
>of  the  available  archive  files  by sending  an  "INDEX  AWARE"  command  to
>LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (or  LISTSERV@CC1.KULEUVEN.AC.BE). You can  then order
>these files  with a "GET AWARE  LOGxxxx" command.

The xxxx-s in LOGxxxx are the year and the month. To get the log of the last few
days, send the command GET AWARE LOG9403. This would be a good thing to do,
since
the listserver did not send all messages to all subscribers the first days after
the list moved.

>Send an "INFO DATABASE" command for more information on the use of the listserv
>database functions.

Here's an example of what you can do with the listserv database :

First, I sent the following set of commands to the listserver:

(The first three lines should always be there!)

 // JOB ECHO=NO
 DATABASE SEARCH DD=RULES
 //RULES DD *
 SEARCH Centris650 IN aware SINCE 01-MAR-94
 INDEX
 PRINT

And this is the result:


 > SEARCH Centris650 IN aware SINCE 01-MAR-94
 --> Database AWARE, 6 hits.

 > INDEX
 Item #   Date   Time  Recs   Subject
 ------   ----   ----  ----   -------
 000016 94/03/30 09:41   43   APM/Centris650 problems and other things
 000017 94/03/29 21:33   40   Re: APM/Centris650 problems and other things
 000018 94/03/30 15:54   18   Re: APM/Centris650 problems and other things
 000021 94/03/30 08:28   33   Re: APM/Centris650 problems and other things
 000022 94/03/30 15:53   26   Re: APM/Centris650 problems and other things
 000032 94/03/31 08:21   49   Re: APM/Centris650 problems and other things

 > PRINT
 >>> Item number 16, dated 94/03/30 09:41:19 -- ALL

[... snip snip ... and here you would get the content of the selected mails ...]


>Please note that it is presently possible for anybody to determine that you are
>signed up to  the list through the  use of the "REVIEW"  command, which returns
>the e-mail  address and name of  all the subscribers.  If you do not  want your
>name to be visible, just issue a "SET AWARE CONCEAL" command.

>More information  on LISTSERV commands can  be found in the  LISTSERV reference
>card,  which  you  can  retrieve  by  sending  an  "INFO  REFCARD"  command  to
>LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (or LISTSERV@CC1.KULEUVEN.AC.BE).


More questions? Let me know.

Greetings.
Peter Arien

peter.arien@cc.kuleuven.ac.be
University Computing Centre
Catholic University of Leuven
De Croylaan 52A
B-3001 Heverlee
Belgium
Tel: + 32 16 286611 (2219)
Fax: + 32 16 207168
 
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I hope Peter agrees on my posting this ! If I've done something
wrong, please excuse me.

Have a nice day !

Finn
-- 
Finn Bo Jorgensen,  E-Mail : Finn.jorgensen@irisa.fr    Tel : 99 84 72 01
IFSIC, bureau TB122, Universite de Rennes
Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 RENNES CEDEX, FRANCE