From listproc@ucdavis.edu Mon Nov 14 23:57:11 1994 Reply-To: listproc@ucdavis.edu Sender: listproc@ucdavis.edu To: adam at xent dot com Subject: SUBSCRIBE QUOTATIONS ADAM RIFKIN X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: University of California, Davis Listprocessor You have been added to list quotations@ucdavis.edu. The system has recorded your address as adam at xent dot com and in order for your messages to get posted (if the list accepts postings), you will have to send them from this address, unless the list does not require subscription for posting. If a message is ever rejected, please contact the list's owner: nobody@ucdavis.edu For information on this service and how to use it, send the following request in the body of a mail message to listproc@ucdavis.edu: HELP All requests should be addressed to listproc@ucdavis.edu. * * * * * KEEP THIS FOR FUTURE REFERENCE * * * * * * * * * * THE DAY WILL COME WHEN YOU WILL * * * * * * * * * * BE VERY HAPPY YOU KEPT THIS. * * * * * Welcome to the Quotations Listserver! I encourage you to contribute to this group as often as you like, remembering to keep discussion and requests for identification of quotations (and other suchlike) posted to alt.quotations. The reason for this is that we don't want to jam up everyone's mailboxes with info available at Usenet. Following is a review of important information. *** *** Your admin is jrnewquist@ucdavis.edu, NOT nobody@ucdavis.edu as the *** computer would have you believe. Remember this. Send all your email *** comments, suggestions, communications, gripes, and so forth to ME, NOT *** to nobody. This is sort of humorous, no? *** **POSTING To post items to the listserv, send mail to quotations@ucdavis.edu Use the subject and body portions just like you normally would. It's just that simple. **UNSUBSCRIBING PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE NOTIFY ME (jrnewquist@ucdavis.edu) IF YOU ARE UNABLE OR UNWILLING TO UNSUBSCRIBE...DON'T JUST LET YOUR ADDRESS GO BAD! THIS MEANS MORE WORK FOR ME, AND IT CAN BE ANNOYING FOR A LIST OF THIS SIZE (about 200 subscribers)!! If you want to unsubscribe, use the administrative address listproc@ucdavis.edu Leave the subject blank and place in the body of the note: unsub quotations And mail it off! **QUESTIONS Remember to send queries to me personally! --NOT to the main Quotations Listserver address! And also remeber: no question is too small to ask. We're friendly around these parts. :) Jason Newquist --Manager, Quotations Listserv --Co-author of alt.quotations FAQ --loQtus (Quotations on the WWW) admionistrator jrnewquist@ucdavis.edu FILE LAST UPDATED: September 14, 1994 From quotations@ucdavis.edu Tue Nov 29 13:13:31 1994 Reply-To: jrnewquist@ucdavis.edu Originator: quotations@ucdavis.edu Sender: quotations@ucdavis.edu Subject: Quotations Listserv: a Vote X-To: Quotations Listserver X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: Quotations of all flavors Here are a couple ideas that I am considering for this listserv. Please consider them and let me know what you think... Consider this a call for votes. 1. Moderation. Several users have requested that this listerv be shifted to a moderated list. This means that postings will not go directly out to the masses, but will be routed to me and then I will post them. This will reduce the number of posts from insane people. 2. Digest. Others have requested that the all the listserv's posts from a particular day be grouped together in one mailing which is sent out at the end of the day (or something like that). This will reduce the number of actual email messages you get in your mailbox. I believe that being a digest also means being moderated, as I will posting the digest each day (but I am not certain about that). PLEASE give me your feedback. If you are either in favor or against these proposals, let me know why!!! You shall be heard. :) If there are good arguments for one of the above ideas, and lots of people are in favor of it, then it shall be adopted. I'll allow a week for responses to this post to percolate into my mailbox before discussing ideas with the sysadmin. *** VERY IMPORTANT *** ****************************************************************** * * * SEND ALL EMAIL REPONSES TO: jrnewquist@dale.ucdavis.edu * * * * DO_***NOT***_RESPOND_TO_THE_LISTSERV_ITSELF!!! * * * ****************************************************************** (Jason ponders what else he can do to emphasize the above...) Thanks for any reponses and opinions you can offer. I hope to hear from a lot of you. Jason --------------------------------------------------------------- Jason Newquist University of California, Davis From quotations@ucdavis.edu Thu Dec 1 22:34:13 1994 Reply-To: jrnewquist@ucdavis.edu Originator: quotations@ucdavis.edu Sender: quotations@ucdavis.edu Subject: Quotations: VOTE RESULTS X-To: Quotations Listserver X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: Quotations of all flavors Several people have pulled my head out of the sand. To those of you who did, thanks! There is a way for YOU to arrange to get a PERSONAL digest with each day's postings, as opposed of getting all the posts seperately. There is no need for me to set the ENTIRE listserv to digest mode. If you are interested in these daily digests, this is what you do (in 3 easy steps!): (1) Address a letter to the usual administrative address: listproc@ucdavis.edu (2) Subject is empty, blank, void of content. (3) The body of the note contains: set quotations mail digest And then mail the thing off! -- As usual, the normal provisos apply: don't send the mail to the quotations posting address or to me. However, if you are having problems, then I can help. While several of you enjoy getting a little email quotation (which, as one person said, allows you to better consider it before rushing on to the next one), many of you would like getting just one piece of email from the listserv per day. Digest mode is for you, and I hope that you take advantage of it. -- A WORD ABOUT THE RESPONSES I HAVE GOTTEN... Yow! Do you have *any* idea what my inbox was like?? Not 6 hours after posting the request for opinions, I had received 120 responses. Over the next 24 hours, I received ANOTHER 100 responses. It made me feel pleased to know that so *many* of you had so *many* opinions on the matter. Reading them all convinced me that while there are arguments in favor of moderation, that the list does not yet require it. And a word of thanks to all those who asked me to put issues of my time first. That was appreciated. I hope that all this information helps you. And once again: thanks for all the input! --------------------------------------------------------------- Jason Newquist University of California, Davis