LIS-FORUM : NCSI-IISc Discussion List
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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 :
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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 :
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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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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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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