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From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers
Subject: Changes to Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
Message-ID: <4542@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Date: 27 Jul 88 00:57:08 GMT
Expires: 5 Sep 88 00:57:07 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ.
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This posting contains a listing of differences between the version of 
the article (referenced in the "Subject:" line) just posted to this
group, and the version posted a few weeks ago.  New users may ignore
this posting -- it is intended to enable experienced users
to track changes to the regularly posted Usenet documents.

*** old/questions.n	Wed Jun  1 01:28:34 1988
--- src/questions.n	Sat Jun 25 19:17:33 1988
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*** 5,7
  Original-from: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
! [Most recent change: 31 May 1988 by tower@bu-it.bu.edu (Leonard H. Tower, Jr.)
  

--- 5,7 -----
  Original-from: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
! [Most recent change: 25 June 1988 by Erik E. Fair (fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu)
  
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+ 
+ 30.  How do I contact the moderator of an Arpanet mailing list rather than
+      post to the entire list?
+ 
+      To do this you should know that there are, by convention, two
+      mailing addresses for every mailing list (except where noted by
+      the List of Lists):
+ 
+ 	     list@host		(e.g. xpert@athena.mit.edu)
+ 	     list-request@host	(e.g. xpert-request@athena.mit.edu)
+ 
+      When you have something for everyone on the mailing list to read,
+      mail to the list@host address. HOWEVER, if you have an
+      administrative request to make (e.g. "please add me to this list",
+      "please remove me from this list", "where are the archives?",
+      "what is this mailer error I got from sending to this list?"), it
+      should be directed to the list-request@host address, which goes
+      only to the mailing list administrator.
+ 
+      It is considered to be in bad taste to send administrative
+      requests to the entire mailing list in question, and if (as is
+      often the case) the administrator does not read the mailing list
+      (i.e. he just takes care of the admin tasks for the list), he will
+      not see your request if you don't send it to the right address.
-- 
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida  Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet:  spaf@cs.purdue.edu	uucp:	...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf