Dear subscribers,
I'm very sorry for the inconvenience due to multiple messages
sent from the listserver in June, July and now in September.
This is the biggest list on the server (e.i. has the highest diversity
of addresses in various networks) and this is one of the first ports
of IBM mainframe software to an alpha server. Well, the earlier
server was too weak to run this size of a list, so we have had
improved service in spite of the "infant" -problems. The FUNET
postmasters promptly attack all problems which are reported to them,
but summer vacations did cause some delays this year.
Some ATTmail X.400 addresses (e.g. used by US Forest Service) create lots
of errors or bounced messages, when you post to the list. However, these
people do receive your messages, so you do not have to worry. We have not
found out why the error messages are bounced to the sender and not to the
listowner. (IMHO, I hope they will change their e-mail provider to a
more cooperative one - I didn't receive any replies to my inquiries).
I have not wanted to post the list subscription instructions on a regular
basis, due to the rather hight amount of junk mail already on the list and
because they are available 24 hours trough our gopher server, but it seems
that I have to start doing it, probably on a monthly basis.
Thank you for your patience and willingness to use this service,
in spite of the problems.
Jarmo Saarikko
the listowner
Finnish Forest Research Institute, Helsinki Research Centre
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HOW TO (UN)SUBSCRIBE TO THE ***NEW*** FOREST MAILING LIST
19 June, 1995
Dear colleagues,
The Forest-list is now be running under the revised listserv software.
Physically the list resides at the Centre for Scientific Computing,
Espoo, Finland. The list has now A NEW ADDRESS:
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* forest@listserv.funet.fi *
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The new listserv sofware also allows you to subscribe the list
in digest-form, i.e. you will receive daily a single message
that contains all messages of that day.
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# Please, DO NOT send any listserver commnads like 'subscribe' or 'set' #
# to the list-address. Send them to "LISTSERV@listserv.funet.fi" #
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THE INSTURCTIONS:
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1) JOINING THE LIST:
To join the forest-list, send an E-mail message to
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| LISTSERV@LISTSERV.FUNET.FI
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You will need to issue the "subscribe" command; the listserver
software will then extract your E-mail address from your message
and add it to the recipient list. The first row of your message
should be:
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| SUBSCRIBE forest Your Full Name
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The server program will reply to you with a confirmation message,
and you are then able to receive messages from the list. PLEASE,
save the instructions that you receive for further need. You will
will be sent a request to confirm your subscription once a year..
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2) LEAVING THE LIST:
To remove yourself from the list, send E-mail to "LISTSERV@LISTSERV.FUNET.FI"
and write the following command on the first row of the message body:
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| UNSUBSCRIBE forest or SIGNOFF forest
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3) SENDING E-MAIL MESSAGES TO ALL LIST MEMBERS !
Operation of the mailing list is very simple:
messages that are sent to the address: FOREST@listserv.funet.fi
are forwarded to members who have subscribed to the FOREST list.
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4) HOW TO WRITE THE SUBJECT:
The Subject: -line should NEVER be empty.
The Current topics for the forest mailing list are listed below. Pleas use
them in the "Subject:" of your e-mail messages and design the rest
of the line wisely to indicate what topic you are discussing.
* Topics = EVENT,JOB,PUBLICATION,POLICY,EDUCATION
* Topics = ANALYSIS,PRODUCTS,TECHNOLOGY,MANAGEMENT
(POLICY= forest-policy, PRODUCTS=forest-products, etc.)
Other keywords may also be used, but then messages are sent to all
subscribers. In my opinion, the keywords are mainly useful for
filtering OUT unwanted topics or threads of discussion.
To select the topics you want to subscribe, send your command to
LISTSERV@LISTSERV.FUNET.FI. Note that you can review the topics which you
have selected for any mailing list through the Query command.
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| SET forest topics: +policy -job -> you will receive only messages with the
| topics "policy:" and "all:" in the
| Subject and never messages with the
| topic "job".
| SET forest topics: all -job -> you will receive all messages except
| those with the the topic "job:"
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5) NEW COMMANDS AVAILABLE (send to LISTSERV@listserv.funet.fi)
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| SET forest NOmail -> temporarily stop receiving mail from the list
| SET forest Mail -> resume receiving mail from the list
| SET forest DIGests -> Ask for digests or
| SET forest INDexes -> Ask for message indexes
| rather than getting
| messages as they are posted
| CONFIRM forest Confirm your subscription
| (when LISTSERV requests it)
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6) OLD MESSAGES
Messages are saved into a filesystem and may be retrieved
from the LISTSERV@listserv.funet.fi by the following commands:
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| INDex forest to order a directory of archive files
| GET filename filetype to order a specific file
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Older Messages (before June 1995)are archived at the METLA gopher:
URL: gopher://gopher.metla.fi:70/11/public/discussion/forest/
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7) OBTAINING MORE INFORMATION:
Here is a list of some commands to the
listserv@listserv.funet.fi address:
LISTSERV version 1.8b - most commonly used commands
Info <topic|listname> Order documentation
Lists <Detail|Short|Global> Get a description of all lists
SUBscribe listname <full name> Subscribe to a list
SIGNOFF listname Sign off from a list
SIGNOFF * (NETWIDE - from all lists on all servers
REView listname <options> Review a list
Query listname Query your subscription options
SET listname options Update your subscription options
INDex <filelist_name> Order a list of LISTSERV files
GET filename filetype Order a file from LISTSERV
REGister full_name|OFF Tell LISTSERV about your name
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If you have any problems, please send a message to the list-owner:
FOREST-REQEST@listserv.funet.fi
Jarmo Saarikko
The listowner
Finnish Forest Research Institute
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