Hei Frazer I'm not whether the official nor the unofficial manager/leader of this list. I just refered to the mesage I got from the Listserver, hwen I had to change my receiving mailaddress. And for you and others to avoid misunderstandings, I copied the message below your reply to my posting. And I don't think that there is any need for Fred to step into this. Just read for yourself. Frazer Wright wrote: > >Just this to clearify. This list is not only for Nisus Writer. - But > >also for other products from the Nisus Company - and for Nisus related > >items. > > I'm sorry. I'm not aware that Erik Richard has been appointed list leader, > or list manager able to lay down hard and fast rules for this list. Have I > missed an election? A coup d'etat perhaps. > > I joined the Nisus list in 1996 and the acceptance note I received from > Fred read as follows: > > >Wed, 24 Jul 1996 13:05:36 > > > >Your subscription to the NISUS list (A discussion list for Nisus & > >NisusWriter) has been accepted. > > Note, this says nothing about "other products" or even Nisus related items. > > Perhaps Fred, as founder and moderator would now wish to define exactly > what this list is for. Just to clarify my mind (and, I suspect, that of > other people) before too many of us give up on the ever weakening signal > to noise ratio and unsubscribe. This is the message that I got from the listserver, when I re-subscribed: "L-Soft list server at Dartmouth College (1.8d)" wrote: > Tue, 28 Dec 1999 00:55:47 > > Your subscription to the NISUS list (A discussion list for Nisus & > NisusWriter) has been accepted. > > Please save this message for future reference, especially if this is the > first time you are subscribing to an electronic mailing list. If you ever > need to leave the list, you will find the necessary instructions below. > Perhaps more importantly, saving a copy of this message (and of all > future subscription notices from other mailing lists) in a special mail > folder will give you instant access to the list of mailing lists that you > are subscribed to. This may prove very useful the next time you go on > vacation and need to leave the lists temporarily so as not to fill up > your mailbox while you are away! You should also save 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 NISUS@LISTSERV.DARTMOUTH.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 > (NISUS@LISTSERV.DARTMOUTH.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@LISTSERV.DARTMOUTH.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 that connects you to a machine, whereas the list address is like a > normal voice line connecting you to a person. If you make a mistake and > dial the FAX number when you wanted to talk to someone on the phone, you > will quickly realize that you used the wrong number and call again. No > harm will have been done. If on the other hand you accidentally make your > FAX call someone's voice line, the person receiving the call will be > inconvenienced, especially if your FAX then re-dials every 5 minutes. The > fact that most people will eventually connect the FAX machine to the > voice line to allow the FAX to go through and make the calls stop does > not mean that you should continue to send FAXes to the voice number. > People would just get mad at you. It works pretty much the same way with > mailing lists, with the difference that you are calling hundreds or > thousands of people at the same time, and consequently you can expect a > lot of people to get upset if you consistently send commands to the list > address. > > You may leave the list at any time by sending a "SIGNOFF NISUS" command > to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.DARTMOUTH.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 NISUS 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 NISUS. If you send a "SET NISUS 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 NISUS NOACK NOREPRO". > > Following instructions from the list owner, your subscription options > have been set to "MIME" rather than the usual LISTSERV defaults. For more > information about subscription options, send a "QUERY NISUS" command to > LISTSERV@LISTSERV.DARTMOUTH.EDU. > > Contributions sent to this list are automatically archived. You can get a > list of the available archive files by sending an "INDEX NISUS" command > to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.DARTMOUTH.EDU. You can then order these files with a > "GET NISUS LOGxxxx" command, or using LISTSERV's database search > facilities. Send an "INFO DATABASE" command for more information on the > latter. > > This list is available in digest form. If you wish to receive the > digested version of the postings, just issue a SET NISUS DIGEST command. > > 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 NISUS 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@LISTSERV.DARTMOUTH.EDU. Cheers, Erik Richard -- K.M.L. 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