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Mailing instructions and syntax
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*All* postings, services and orders to the list is done by writing to
dastmail@sth.frontec.se!
Commands should be written as the first line of the mail. Several commands
can be written on subsequent lines.
To write postings to the list:
Just post a mail. The mail will be sent to everybody in the list, including
yourself (if you're in the list of course). If you post a mail bigger than
50000 bytes, it will not immediately get posted to the list, but require a
confirmation mail to be sent (the list program will prompt you for that), to
prevent large mistakes to end up getting sent to a large crowd of people.
To un-subscribe from the list:
Enter 'SUB <email address>' on the first line of the body. Aliases to this
command include UNSUBSCRIBE and DELETE. If you send the mail from the
same address you want to remove from the list, you can use ME or MYSELF
instead of the actual address. That makes any of the following commands
valid: 'unsubscribe <address>', 'sub me', 'delete myself',
'unsubscribe myself' and 'delete <address>'.
Note that you are capable of adding and removing other addresses than your
own! (The deleted person will receive an information mail.)
To subscribe to the list:
Enter 'ADD <email address>' on the first line of the body. Other accepted
forms include 'subscribe <address>', 'add me', 'subscribe myself'. The
latter two only work if the From: field of your mail matches the address
you want to subscribe with. Adding the same address several times will
not make the address appear more than once in the list. The added address
will receive this instruction text!
Further services:
"GET <word>"
Where <word> can be:
FILELIST - the list of files available is returned.
USERLIST - the email addresses of the list subscribers is returned
<file> - from the filelist returns the uuencoded file.
"HELP"
Returns this instruction/help text.
"SEND"
And then should one or more uuencoded files follow. They are then put
in the file area, available for other users. Aliases are UPLOAD or
even straight uuencoded files starting on the first line. It is not
possible to upload files with the same names that are already present.
They will simply disappear. Paths of uploaded files are ignored.
"REPLACE"
Like SEND, but this can replace an already present file.
More commands/features are likely to appear in future revisions. Please
contribute with ideas and suggestions.