Subject: New List and location
From: L. B. Cebik (cebik@cebik.com)
Date: Tue May 15 2001 - 06:05:06 EDT
To all tenten-l subscribers: Last month, we moved the 10-10 website to a new server. The site, http://www.ten-ten.org, now leads us to a server to which we have direct access. Some of you may have noticed that we have upgraded the site with a new appearance and new features. The time has come for us to also move the 10-10 mailing list over to the new site. We cannot thanks Jim Eshleman and Lehigh.edu enough for their generosity in hosting 10-10 without cost over the years since we began. The time has come for us to consolidate all our operations at "ten-ten.org." Beginning today, the new list is open for subscriptions. Please do not flood the system, or if you cannot get through immediately, please try again until you are subscribed. In the meantime, tenten-l will operate until the end of the month. You will not need to unsubscribe from tenten-l, since it will simply cease to operate at the end of the month. Until then, after you subscribe, you may wish to send a message to both lists to ensure that everyone receives it. Now for the new list. The name of the list is TENTENLIST (or tentenlist in lower case). To subscribe from the address that you use for the list, send a message to this address majordomo@ten-ten.org Make no entry on the "subject" line. Your message should read subscribe tentenlist (If you are subscribing from an address other than the one to which messages go and from which they originate, then use this text: subscribe tentenlist address.xxx where "address.xxx" is the e-mail address for list messages.) You will receive a line of text and code number in return and must send that line back to majordomo@ten-ten.org to confirm your subscription. (This measure keeps automated spam machines from infiltrating the list with unwanted ads.) Upon receipt of your return code, majordomo (a mail-list system comparable to but not quite the same as the listserv/listproc system used at Lehigh) will send you a welcome message that contains instructions for unsubscribing, sending messages, and obtaining a list of subscribers. As well, it contains the code of conduct to which you commit yourself in using the mail-list. Please maintain a copy on disk and/or on paper of the welcome message. Sending a message to the subscibers to the list is this simple. Address the message to tentenlist@ten-ten.org Use a subject that is brief and indicates the content of your message. Add your text. Sign with your name. Please do not use pseudonyms or "handles" without also adding your name. The new list is designed to accept only ASCII (or European equivalents) text. It will bounce HTML text. It will also bounce multi-part messages, messages with attachments, and messages with active advertising (that tries to activate your browser). There are also taboo words that will bounce a message. However, e-mail addresses and URLs within the text of a message will go through just fine. In fact, this message has been passed through the new system (even though the server master and I are the only subscribers at present). One advantage of the new list is this: if you changer servers-or if your server suddenly changes names-you can alter your subscription from the new e-mail address with messages addressed to majordomo@ten-ten.org. Send this one to subscribe anew from the new address: subscribe tentenlist Send this one to remove your defunct address from the list: unsubscribe tentenlist oldaddress@xxx where "old address@xxx" is the one no longer active. The subscribe message will get you a new code to return, but unsubscribing is a simple one-step action. In the beginning, we shall not maintain archives for the list. However, if information files of general benefit later prove feasible to add, we shall do so and let everyone know how to access them by commands to "majordomo" similar to those used in the old system. You have about 15 days to subscribe to the new list before this one goes off line. So there is no rush, but there is a deadline. We look forward to having all of you with 10-10 on the new list. -73- LB, W4RNL tentenlist coordinator
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