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EDITOR'S NOTE. All 350 of you received the notice below when you
"subscribed to NABOKV-L. In some cases, this may have been over three
years ago. The material below has useful information that you might wish
to recaquaint yourself with. For smooth functioning of the list, it is
essential that when you give up one e-mail address or that address
changes, you send a SIGNOFF message to <listserv@ucsbvm.ucsb.edu> and
then, if desired, a new SUBSCRIBE message to the same address. This is
the responsibility of the subscriber, not the editor.
All of the postings on NABOKV-L are archived and may be retrieved by
any subscriber. Over three years of material is availble. This may be
searched by month or, via, UNIX commands, in toto. Instructions for
retrieving the archive logs are contained below.
Please keep a copy of this information on file for reference.
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You have been added to the NABOKV-L mailing list (Vladimir Nabokov Forum)
by chtodel@HUMANITAS.UCSB.EDU.
Please save this message for future reference, especially if you are not
familiar with LISTSERV. This might look like a waste of disk space now,
but in 6 months you will be glad you saved this information when you
realize that you cannot remember what are the lists you are subscribed
to, or what is the command to leave the list to avoid filling up your
mailbox while you are on vacations. In fact, you should create a new mail
folder for subscription confirmation messages like this one, and for the
"welcome messages" from the list owners that you will occasionally
receive after subscribing to a new list.
To send a message to all the people currently subscribed to the list,
just send mail to NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU. 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
(NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU) is also called the "list address". 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@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU. It is very important to
understand the difference between the two, but fortunately it is not
complicated. The LISTSERV address is like a FAX number, and the list
address is like a normal phone line. If you make your FAX call someone's
regular phone number by mistake, it will be an unpleasant experience for
him but you will probably be excused the first time. If you do it
regularly, however, he will probably get upset and send you a nasty
complaint. It is the same with mailing lists, with the difference that
you are calling hundreds or thousands of people at the same time, so a
lot more people get annoyed if you use the wrong number.
You may leave the list at any time by sending a "SIGNOFF NABOKV-L"
command to LISTSERV@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU. 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 NABOKV-L 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 NABOKV-L. If you send a "SET NABOKV-L
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 NABOKV-L NOACK NOREPRO".
Contributions sent to this list are automatically archived. You can get a
list of the available archive files by sending an "INDEX NABOKV-L"
command to LISTSERV@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU. You can then order these files with
a "GET NABOKV-L LOGxxxx" command, or using LISTSERV's database search
facilities. Send an "INFO DATABASE" command for more information on the
latter.
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 NABOKV-L 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@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU.
"subscribed to NABOKV-L. In some cases, this may have been over three
years ago. The material below has useful information that you might wish
to recaquaint yourself with. For smooth functioning of the list, it is
essential that when you give up one e-mail address or that address
changes, you send a SIGNOFF message to <listserv@ucsbvm.ucsb.edu> and
then, if desired, a new SUBSCRIBE message to the same address. This is
the responsibility of the subscriber, not the editor.
All of the postings on NABOKV-L are archived and may be retrieved by
any subscriber. Over three years of material is availble. This may be
searched by month or, via, UNIX commands, in toto. Instructions for
retrieving the archive logs are contained below.
Please keep a copy of this information on file for reference.
-------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------
You have been added to the NABOKV-L mailing list (Vladimir Nabokov Forum)
by chtodel@HUMANITAS.UCSB.EDU.
Please save this message for future reference, especially if you are not
familiar with LISTSERV. This might look like a waste of disk space now,
but in 6 months you will be glad you saved this information when you
realize that you cannot remember what are the lists you are subscribed
to, or what is the command to leave the list to avoid filling up your
mailbox while you are on vacations. In fact, you should create a new mail
folder for subscription confirmation messages like this one, and for the
"welcome messages" from the list owners that you will occasionally
receive after subscribing to a new list.
To send a message to all the people currently subscribed to the list,
just send mail to NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU. 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
(NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU) is also called the "list address". 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@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU. It is very important to
understand the difference between the two, but fortunately it is not
complicated. The LISTSERV address is like a FAX number, and the list
address is like a normal phone line. If you make your FAX call someone's
regular phone number by mistake, it will be an unpleasant experience for
him but you will probably be excused the first time. If you do it
regularly, however, he will probably get upset and send you a nasty
complaint. It is the same with mailing lists, with the difference that
you are calling hundreds or thousands of people at the same time, so a
lot more people get annoyed if you use the wrong number.
You may leave the list at any time by sending a "SIGNOFF NABOKV-L"
command to LISTSERV@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU. 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 NABOKV-L 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 NABOKV-L. If you send a "SET NABOKV-L
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 NABOKV-L NOACK NOREPRO".
Contributions sent to this list are automatically archived. You can get a
list of the available archive files by sending an "INDEX NABOKV-L"
command to LISTSERV@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU. You can then order these files with
a "GET NABOKV-L LOGxxxx" command, or using LISTSERV's database search
facilities. Send an "INFO DATABASE" command for more information on the
latter.
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 NABOKV-L 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@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU.