Mead Lovers Digest #0092

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Mead Lover's Digest #92                     Sat 06 March 1993 

 
        Forum for Discussion of Mead Brewing and Consuming 
               John Dilley, Digest Coordinator 

 
Contents: 
  ["Stephen Hansen": Mead Lovers Digest archive] (John Dilley) 

 
Send articles for submission to the digest to mead-lovers@nsa.hp.com 
Send digest addition or removal requests to mead-lovers-request@nsa.hp.com 

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Date: Fri, 05 Mar 93 08:57:44 -0800 
From: John Dilley <jad@porter.nsa.hp.com> 
Subject: ["Stephen Hansen": Mead Lovers Digest archive] 

 
        Stephen Hansen has been kind enough to set up listserver access 
to the Mead Lover's digest archive.  Following is the welcome message 
all new users get these days; it includes a brief note about how to 
access the listserver.  You will find this useful if you do not have 
Internet access and can not or do not wish to access the BBS systems 
that have an archive of the Mead Lover's Digest.  Regards, 

                         --       jad       -- 

        Welcome to the mead-lovers@nsa.hp.com mailing list.  I've added 
you to as per your recent request.  The digest is currently running on 
the same terms as the Home Brew Digest (HBD).  As with the HBD, please 
send your articles to the digest address, mead-lovers@nsa.hp.com.  Send 
administrative requests (for addition to or removal from the list) to 
the request address, mead-lovers-request@nsa.hp.com. 

        Enclosed below is information on how to retrieve back issues of 
the Mead Lovers Digest or the README file for the MLD.  We have three 
Mead Lovers Digest archive sites, thanks to the gracious efforts of 
Stephen Hansen, Daniel Vachon, and John DeCarlo.  There is also a 
listserver automated mail system which can serve requests for archive 
information.  Instructions on how to use the listserver follow my 
signature below.  Please use the listserver to retrieve the MLD README 
file to help you come up to speed with the digest.  The archives are: 

    - Internet FTP site: sierra.stanford.edu, anon FTP, pub/mead/. 
    - BBS site: Rocky Mountain MIDI Systems BBS, (303) 287-5274 (HST). 
    - BBS site: No Tarmac Brewing, 703-525-3715, V.32bis, Fidonet 1:109/131 
    - Listserver: See access instructions below 

        Enjoy the Mead Lover's Digest, and "Wassail"! (see README :-) 

                       --       jad       -- 
                   John A. Dilley <jad@nsa.hp.com> 

Listserver Access: 

A listserver is available for those of you without ftp access.  The 
listserver looks for certain commands in the body of a mail message and 
mails help information or requested files back to the originator.  The 
listserver software on Sierra only supports the HELP, INDEX, and GET 
commands and should be used in the following manner.  (NOTE: This 
software is VERY picky.) 

The standard for internet text messages (rfc822 if you care) says that 
a mail message consists of two parts, a header (consisting of lines 
like To:, From:, Subject:, etc.), and the body.  The end of the message 
header and the start of the message body is indicated by a blank line. 
The only line in the header that the listserver cares about is the 
From:  or Reply-To: line, so the Subject: and other header lines are 
ignored. 

The listserver expects that the body of the message contains only 
listserver requests.  If it sees anything that it doesn't recognize it 
will generate an error message and stop processing the message at that 
point.  Several people have mail utilities that generate special memo 
format lines at the top of the message body.  These confuse the 
listserver and cause it to reject the message.  Other people put one or 
more signature lines at the end of the message.  Since these lines are 
at the end of the message they don't stop the listserver from 
successfully processing the requests but they will cause it to generate 
an error message (both to you and to me).  To avoid this you should 
follow the convention that says that signature lines are preceded by a 
line beginning with two dashes (--). 

All but a few files may be retreived via mail by sending a request to 
the listserver at listserv@Sierra.Stanford.EDU.  If you haven't used 
the listserver before I recommend that you first ask for the help 
file.  Send a message to the listserver consisting of the word help on 
a line by itself. 

HELP 

The directory structure containing the mead lovers archive files 
appears to be very different for listserver access so one should use 
the INDEX command to get a copy of the names of available files.  To 
get a listing of the files available from the mead lovers archive put 
the following on a line by itself. 

INDEX MEAD 

To get files from the archives you need to send one or more lines 
like the following: 

GET MEAD filename 

where "filename" is one of the files listed by the INDEX MEAD command. 

Here's an example of a request for the mead lovers index file and a 
copy of the index file for the Digests in 1993. 

        To: listserv@sierra.Stanford.EDU 
        Subject:  (not required) 

        index mead 
        get mead 1993.index 

        -- 
        SIGNATURE 

If you have a problem with or questions about the listserver that are 
not answered by the above, send mail to 

        listserv-manager@Sierra.Stanford.EDU 

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