ADMIN: controlling INDOLOGY

[Dominik Wujastyk]

Frank Conlon has kindly pointed out that I gave a wrong instruction in my
message of a week or two ago, when I set out the commands for controlling
INDOLOGY.

To "switch off" INDOLOGY for a while, i.e., while you go on a trip, send
the message 

    set indology mail postpone

to the address 

    listproc at liverpool.ac.uk

I had said "set indology postpone" by mistake.

Sorry everyone!  And thank you Frank.

All the best,
Dominik

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Dominik Wujastyk               Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
email: d.wujastyk at ucl.ac.uk          183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, England
<URL: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgadkw/>                    FAX: 44 171 611 8545


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 17:09:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Frank Conlon <conlon at u.washington.edu>
To: Dominik Wujastyk <ucgadkw at ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: ADMIN: controlling INDOLOGY

Dominik:

This is a minor point now, although it has created a lot of confusion for
me today.  In your May 22 post, you left out the word "mail" from the
command  of "set indology mail postpone" and had "set indology postpone"
instead.  I tried it with upper case, lower case, even left out set, and
finally asked indology-request for help, but as no one appeared, I went
back and asked for the "help set" document from the list processor, that
was when I realized that the correct posting is

set indology mail postpone.

I'd recommend that you might share that correction with the other indology
members who may think about setting the list for nomail over the summer.

cheers,

Frank

On Thu, 22 May 1997, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:

> 
> As the volume of INDOLOGY messages rises, and as we contemplate shooting
> off on summer research trips, it is time for a reminder on how to
> unsubscribe, etc.
> 
> All the following commands are meant to be sent as single-line email text
> to the address
> 
>    listproc at liverpool.ac.uk
> 
> DO NOT SEND ANY OF THESE COMMANDS TO THE INDOLOGY ADDRESS ITSELF. If you
> do, the message will simply go to 580 people who can't actually help you.
> The "command centre" is listproc.
> 
> 
> To get general help about controlling INDOLOGY, send the single word
> 
>    help
> 
> To get information on the settings that you can control, send 
> 
>   help set
> 
> Some of the more important settings are:
> 
>   set indology postpone       
> 
>   this stops messages until you change the setting again, but leaves your
>   name and details in the list of subscribed members.
> 
>   set indology mail digest
> 
>   this stops the INDOLOGY messages being sent to you as individual pieces
>   of email; instead you get sent a periodical digest, i.e., a clump of
>   messages put together as a little e-magazine, with a table of contents. 
>   These arrive once or twice a week, depending on the volume of messages. 
>   If you don't contribute to INDOLOGY much, but want to monitor the
>   discussion in a general way, this can be the best way to receive
>   INDOLOGY email. 
> 
> 
> To fully drop your membership of INDOLOGY, send
> 
>   unsubscribe indology
> 
> 
> Finally, to ask for help from a human being, send a message to the address
> 
>   indology-request at liverpool.ac.uk
> 
> instead of to the listproc address.
> 
> These details are repeated for reference on the INDOLOGY web site, so
> those of you with web browsers can check up by looking at 
> <URL http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgadkw/indology.html>
> 
> All the best,
> Dominik
> 
> --
> Dominik Wujastyk               Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
> email: d.wujastyk at ucl.ac.uk          183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, England
> <URL: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgadkw/>                    FAX: 44 171 611 8545
> 
> 
> 
> 
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