From cs_ind23@oswego.Oswego.EDU Tue May 4 10:06:39 1993 Subject: Re: Top 10 List To: adam@vlsi.cs.caltech.edu (Ringo Rifkin) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Quoted from Ringo Rifkin: : :James, : : How do I subscribe to the Letterman Top 10 list :at mot.com? I'd like to if I can. : : Adam Rifkin : adam@vlsi.caltech.edu : Caltech not-yet-petitioning group : Hello and thanks for decideing to subscribe to the Letterman Top Ten mailing list. To add yourself to the mailing list send a message to: listserv@mot.com Include in the message the following line: subscribe letterman-top-ten If you'd like more help include the following line: help If you have any trouble let me know. This will make the list alot easier to work with. Jamie cs_ind23@oswego.oswego.edu -- ---------------------------------------------------- * cs_ind23@oswego.oswego.edu Subscribe to the * * James LaPlaine letterman-top-ten * * a.k.a--> Static list at * * "We may be human, but..." listserv@mot.com * ---------------------------------------------------- From listserv@cssmp.corp.mot.com Tue May 4 12:16:57 1993 Reply-To: listserver@cssmp.corp.mot.com Sender: listserver@cssmp.corp.mot.com To: adam@vlsi.cs.caltech.edu Cc: cs_ind23@oswego.oswego.edu Subject: SUBSCRIBE LETTERMAN-TOP-TEN ADAM RIFKIN X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: Motorola Mailing List Server You have been added to the mailing list "letterman-top-ten@mot.com." The system has recorded your address as adam@vlsi.cs.caltech.edu. In order for your messages to get posted you will have to send them from this address. If a message is ever rejected please contact the list's owner: cs_ind23@oswego.oswego.edu All requests should be addressed to listserver. =============================================================================== Welcome to the Late Night with David Letterman Top Ten Mailing List letterman-top-ten@mot.com =============================================================================== This list exists to send out recent LNWDL Top Ten Lists. This list is moderated. So if you send anything to it it will go to the list's primary owner, Jamie LaPlaine . If you are curious who else is on this list send the following command to the ListServer (listserv@mot.com): recipients letterman-top-ten If you ever want to unsubscribe send the following command to the ListServer: unsubscribe letterman-top-ten Remember that commands go in the *body* of you text. For general help send the command "help." Please remember that the Top Ten Lists are (c) NBC and Worldwide Pants Inc. Use is for entertainment purposes only. Regards, -Michael S. Muegel From owner-TOPTEN@clark.net Thu Jan 12 21:59:53 1995 Subject: You are now subscribed to the TOPTEN list Reply-To: TOPTEN-Request@clark.net X-Lsv-Listid: TOPTEN Fri, 13 Jan 1995 00:59:02 Your subscription to the TOPTEN list (David Letterman's Top-10) has been accepted. 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 TOPTEN@CLARK.NET. 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 (TOPTEN@CLARK.NET) 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@CLARK.NET. 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 TOPTEN" command to LISTSERV@CLARK.NET. 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 TOPTEN 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 TOPTEN. If you send a "SET TOPTEN 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 TOPTEN NOACK NOREPRO". Contributions sent to this list are automatically archived. You can get a list of the available archive files by sending an "INDEX TOPTEN" command to LISTSERV@CLARK.NET. You can then order these files with a "GET TOPTEN 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 other people 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 TOPTEN 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@CLARK.NET. From owner-topten@listserv.clark.net Tue Jan 17 17:32:12 1995 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 2309 Approved-By: Aaron Barnhart Reply-To: "David Letterman's Top-10" Sender: "David Letterman's Top-10" Subject: Administrative Stuff Comments: To: topten@clark.net First, a word of thanks to those of you waiting to be removed from TOPTEN. I've successfully managed lists using both the Majordomo and Listproc mailing-list software, but TOPTEN uses LISTSERV and that has proven to be more challenging than I'd imagined. Fortunately I have just now learned how to search and destroy the addresses of users who get those "You are not subscribed to TOPTEN list" messages when they try to unsubscribe. Those addresses will soon be removed. In the less than two weeks since TOPTEN returned to the air, its subscriber rolls have mushroomed from 27,000 to more than 33,000 users. We're grateful to have everybody on board, but ask your patience as we attempt to catch up with our backlog. I left town on a rare weekend trip and returned to find more than 3,000 messages in my TOPTEN mailbox! However, with this last mystery solved I think I now have the means to handle most every complaint. A few more days' grace period is all I ask. There is also the matter of infrequent delivery some of you are reporting. All I can say is this: our records show successful delivery of each night's Top Ten List since TOPTEN was revived. Not every mailing was timely -- last night's, for instance, which was held up when the hard disk at clark.net, where TOPTEN is mailed, filled to capacity. It takes a lot of disk space to mail 33,000 Top Ten Lists! If you are not receiving Top Tens on a regular basis, however, I suggest that you mail your postmaster (if you are john@sirajul.net, for instance, you should mail postmaster@sirajul.net). Chances are good the mailing error is on your machine, not TOPTEN's. There is one mystery left to solve: why some of you are receiving duplicate Top Ten Lists each day. My guess is that you are subscribed twice, at slightly different addresses, both of which point to the same mailbox. I am pressing ahead on this front as well -- in the meantime please be gracious and delete the second mailing. Thanks. November's and December's lists were promised. They are coming. To all of you, my thanks for helping us cope with a rough transition. I think it has gone as well as it possibly could under the conditions. Remember, if you have questions about TOPTEN or the Top Ten Lists: 1. Mail topten-request@clark.net and 2. Be patient. From owner-topten@listserv.clark.net Sat Jan 28 10:49:52 1995 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1042 Approved-By: Aaron Barnhart Reply-To: topten-request@clark.net Sender: "David Letterman's Top-10" Subject: Administrative stuff 1/28/95 Comments: To: topten@clark.net This weekend we will mail at least two weeks' worth of December 1994's Top Ten lists. This is being done primarily to give the 27,000 or so of you who were subscribed to TOPTEN before it went down some sense of continuity. In response to the burden that last week's full-month mailing put on some of our subscribers' mailboxes, we will ship out December's lists one week at a time. There will be NO LISTS from the second week of December, as Dave was in repeats. Yes, we know we include repeats with the daily mailings, but this is an archival mailing and it didn't make much sense to include previous archived lists on it. If you have not saved the following information before, I suggest that you do: You can subscribe to and signoff of TOPTEN yourself by mailing LISTSERV@CLARK.NET with one of these two messages: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TOPTEN Your Name (where "Your Name" is your *real* name, not your e-mail address) To signoff: SIGNOFF TOPTEN As of Friday, TOPTEN was mailing to 38,600 subscribers. From owner-topten@listserv.clark.net Sun Mar 19 22:51:51 1995 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 754 Approved-By: Aaron Barnhart Reply-To: "David Letterman's Top-10" Sender: "David Letterman's Top-10" Subject: F.Y.I. While we're waiting for the Top Tens to resume (and by the way, next Thursday and Friday the NCAA men's tournament will again pre-empt Dave, so no Top Tens then either), these headlines: * I'm now recommending that users with FTP and World Wide Web access use the CBS Home Page instead of the mcs.net FTP site to retrieve LATE SHOW Top Tens. That Web page is at . NBC lists are still at the FTP site, but it's always a challenge to get in the door there. * If you'd like to write LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN directly, its official e-mailbox is . * To clarify what I said last time, you send *mail* to topten@infomania.com to get the most recent Top Ten List. Aaron Barnhart List Owner, TOPTEN From owner-topten@listserv.clark.net Tue May 30 15:54:49 1995 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1748 Approved-By: Aaron Barnhart Reply-To: "David Letterman's Top-10" Sender: "David Letterman's Top-10" Subject: About the TOPTEN mailer [Last updated May 10, 1995] This is the monthly informational message for TOPTEN, the Internet distribution channel for the nightly Top Ten List from LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN. Lists are distributed Tuesday through Saturday mornings, except when Dave is pre-empted (which isn't very often). As of May 30, 1995 the circulation of TOPTEN was 75,000. To remove your address from the TOPTEN distribution, send mail to listserv@listserv.clark.net with this message only: SIGNOFF TOPTEN The address topten-request is for correspondence only (i.e., to chat with me). TOPTEN is a non-reviewable list, so there is no need to conceal your address. Occasionally a temporary problem with your system's mail handling may result in a Top Ten List not being delivered to your mailbox as expected. If this should happen, simply send e-mail to topten@infomania.com and you will be sent the most recent Top Ten List by e-mail. If mail failures are happening to you on a regular basis, please contact your postmaster. We here at TOPTEN are not equipped to solve individual problems with mail delivery. If you receive a duplicate mailing of a Top Ten List, please ignore it. Occasionally an electronic mailer somewhere out there on the Net will resend one of our lists to the TOPTEN distribution by accident. If you are receiving duplicate lists every day, please let us know. To learn about TOPTEN's archive containing previous Top Ten Lists, send mail to listserv@listserv.clark.net with this message only: GET TOPTEN ARCHIVE The Top Ten List is Copyright (C) 1995 Worldwide Pants Incorporated. Used with permission. Watch LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN weeknights on the CBS Television Network. Aaron Barnhart List Owner, TOPTEN