Help with the Mailing List
The Robotics mailing list is for those interested in general discussion
related to robotics. See our main page for a more detailed description.
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Tips
for being a good list member - Netiquette, copyright information,
acceptable use
*ALL List Members PLEASE READ - New mail server address *
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where to go if all else fails
To send mail to people on the
robotics mailing list, send mail to the address
robotics@lists.jsoft.com *note our new list address*
and your message will go to everyone currently subscribed to the
mailing list. Be sure to use a meaningful subject line in your message.
The message will also show up
on the archive which are available to member's only. Click here
for details.
To subscribe to the Robotics
mailing list, send mail to the address
robotics-request@lists.jsoft.com *note our new request address*
and put the following in the subject line:
subscribe robotics
Or you can subscribe directly
from this website
Only list members can post to the list, so please subscribe
with whatever address you plan on sending your posts from most often.
You will receive an e-mail with instructions on how to
confirm your subscription. Follow instructions and soon you will be
getting e-mail with the rest of us.
There is also a digest version of robotics if you do not read
your mail often and are concerned about getting "mailbox full" errors.
In the digest version, you still receive the same messages but
instead of them being sent to you one at a time, they are bundled together
as one big message on a periodic basis.
To subscribe to the digest version, check the digest setting
on your subscriber request when you do it from the mailman website
To unsubscribe, send a
message to
robotics-request@lists.jsoft.com,
with the following in the subject line:
unsubscribe password
you will need your password reminder.
or you can unsubscribe
via the mailman website
If that doesn't work, you can try using the message:
unsubscribe robotics <the address you subscribed with>
and if that doesn't work, send me some e-mail.
If you find that you suddenly
stop getting mail from the list, it may be that your e-mail is bouncing
and that you have been removed from the list. Simply re-subscribe to
robotics when things are back to normal.
Some suggestions about
posting:
Please put a subject line
in all your posts. The Subject: will have [robotics] in it someplace,
making it easier for you to filter and the archive can do a better job
of building the threads if the Subject is there.
Consider putting your e-mail
address at the bottom of your post. Some strange looking addresses get
generated as the mail works its way through the Internet. Some readers
actually strip out the headers and the person has no idea who the post
is from if there is no signature in the body of the message. It makes
it easier for people to send you an individual reply also.
When quoting other people's
posts, make sure NOT to include their header information and try to put
the quote at the end of your post. If you put it at the start, your message
may get rejected as duplicate.
try something like:
John Smith <jsmith@computer.com>
said:
> your quote
and only quote the relevant
portions of their message.
The list software tries
to filter out some administrative requests. If you send a message that
has 'help with the list' or 'subscribe' or some other combination of
words it's looking for in the first few lines of your message, your message
will be passed on to me and I will have to forward it to the list
when I get around to it.
When all else fails, send me some e-mail and tell me what's going on.
I hope you enjoy robotics as much as I do. Let me know if
there is anything else I can do.
Last updated January 8, 2007
Copyright 2001-2007 Susan Frederick
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