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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: How To Subscribe to Info-Vax
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 14:08:35 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
- Lines: 47
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <1h9rt3INN1c9@gap.caltech.edu>
- References: <9212230640.AA10253@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Reply-To: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
- NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu
-
- In article <9212230640.AA10253@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, FZC@CU.NIH.GOV ("Always Something There to Remind Me") writes:
- >As a note, if someone wants to subscribe to
- >Info-Vax, they must send a request to a server
- >such as LISTSERV.
-
- That's all well and good, but there are LISTSERVs in a LOT of places.
-
- >You should not send a message to the Info-Vax list
- >directly, as all 750,000 readers get it, and you
- >{still} will not be subscribed to the list.
-
- But maybe he'll find out WHERE he should subscribe.
-
- >To be subscribed to the list, YOU PERSONALLY MUST
- >send a message directly to the server. Send a message
- >to the following address:
- >
- > LISTSERV@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU
-
- Now, that'd be really silly if I had an acount on CRVAX.SRI.COM, now wouldn't
- it?
-
- >Subject isn't important.
-
- That depends on where you're subscribing.
-
- >As the first line of the message put in
- >
- >SUBSCRIBE INFO-VAX Firstname Lastname
-
- Again, this is dependent on where you're subscribing.
-
- >(Change 'Firstname' and 'Lastname' to yours, of course.)
- >
- >The Princeton Listserv will forward the request onto
- >the nearest listserv that handles INFO-VAX.
-
- Of course, the canonical server is accessible as (if I recall correctly)
- INFO-VAX-REQUEST@CRVAX.SRI.COM.
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
-
- Disclaimer: Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS. That's what I get paid for. My
- understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So
- unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
- organization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
- hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
-