Subject: LIS-FORUM : NCSI-IISc Discussion List

        LIS-FORUM  is  an electronic mailing list (or  discussion  forum) 
        maintained by the 'listserv' software on a computer at NCSI, 
        Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
        
	Following features are supported by LIS-FORUM.
        
        i)  Posting messages to members of the  LIS-FORUM .
        
        ii) Commands supported can be grouped under following categories.

	    1) Subscribing, unsubscribing.
	    2) Distribution settings such as setting acknowledgment, postponing
	       of message receiving. 
	    3) Getting Information such as getting help on commands, to know 
	       about the subscribers of  the LIS-FORUM. 
	    4) Getting files from archive.
        
        
        POSTING MESSAGES :
        ================
        
        Messages for distribution to LIS-FORUM members should be sent  
	to the e-mail address :
        
             LIS-FORUM@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

	With text as body of the message.
        
        
        COMMANDS :
        =========
        
        Commands to be processed by the listserv should be sent to the e-
        mail address :
        
             listserv@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
        
        The different commands currently supported are listed below.
        
	Subscribing and Unsubscribing commands
	--------------------------------------

        -  To join (subscribe) LIS-FORUM  send the following command :
        
           subscribe LIS-FORUM your full name
	   (e.g : subscribe lis-forum K.Thulasi ).
        
        -  To signoff (cancel subscription) send the following comand :
        
           unsubscribe LIS-FORUM 
        
	Distribution settings
	---------------------
        
        -  To determine what your LIS-FORUM distribution settings are :
        
           set LIS-FORUM
        
           By default your distribution settings are set to NOACK, which 
           means the messages sent by you are not echoed back to you.
        
           If  you  want the messages to be sent back to  you,  send  the 
           following command :
        
           set LIS-FORUM mail ACK
        
        -  To stop LIS-FORUM mail, when you go on vacation :
        
           set LIS-FORUM mail postpone
        
        -  To resume the delivery you can send one of the following 
           commands :
        
           set LIS-FORUM mail ack - in which case messages sent by you 
                                    are sent back to you
        
           or
        
           set LIS-FORUM mail noack - in which case messages sent by you 
                                      are not sent back to you
        
           (After  setting  distribution  settings  to  postpone,  unless 
            subscriber resets it to one of the above options,  subscriber 
            will not get any messages from LIS-FORUM)

        - To set your mail distribtuion setting to digest, in which case
	  you will not get mails as and when they are distributed on forum.
	  Instead it collects all messages posted on to LIS-FORUM and then 
	  delivers this file after certain number of hours have elapsed.

           set LIS-FORUM mail digest

	Getting information
	-------------------

        -  To get information about LIS-FORUM :
        
           information LIS-FORUM

        -  To obtain list of LIS-FORUM users :
        
           recipients LIS-FORUM
        
        -  To obtain count of messages sent by each subscriber :
        
           statistics LIS-FORUM
        
        -  To get general help (this message file) :
        
           help
        
        -  To get help on a specific command :
        
           help command name
        
           (for e.g. help set)


	Getting a file from archive
	---------------------------

	All messages posted on to this forum are archived. You can get
	previous message distributed by using one of these methods.

	1. By getting list of files archived, going through this list and 
	   locating a file of your interest.

	   - Send following request.

	       index lis-forum

	2. By searching the archive using a key or pattern and get files in 
	   which pattern is found.

	   - Send following command.

	     search lis-forum pattern

	3. Once you know which file to get, send following command to get a 
	   file from archive.

	      get lis-forum filename [optional part number]

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LIS-FORUM Administrators :

Dr. T.B. Rajashekar        raja@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

Mr. A. Sreenivasa Ravi     ravi@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

Ms. Meenaxi Gulla          meenu@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

National Centre for Science Information (NCSI)
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore - 560 012 (India)
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