Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 20:57:34 +0800
From: Derek Tom <derek at bbdo.com dot hk>
Subject: Re: FIXED: The archive path does not exist
Sincere apologies, all. I figured out what I was doing wrong.
I failed to create a folder with the name of my list in the Archive folder.
BTW, when is AutoShare 1.0.2 expected to come out?
Best,
Derek
>MACHINE: PM 6100/66 (24/500)
>MAC OS: 7.5.5
>OT: 1.1.1
>
>SOFTWARE: AIMS 1.1.1, AutoShare 1.0.1 (1.0 fix)
>
>NOTES: System is clean but running SpeedDoubler 1.3.1 and Timbuktu 3.0.
>AutoBoot and Keep It Up are also installed. No other applications are
>running.
>
>
>AutoShare is processing Listserv mail and commands just fine.
>
>However, it keeps stating that "The archive path does not exist" even
>though I've checked that path 5 times and actually trashed preferences and
>reconfigured AutoShare from scratch once. I also rebuilt the Desktop file
>using TechTool 1.1.2 and ran Norton Disk Doctor.
>
>The error message is not bogus as it's not archiving any of the list messages.
>
>I have been running several mailing lists on a Quadra 650 with a similar
>setup for about a year now with absolutely no problems so I'm quite
>familiar with the workings.
>
>Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
>
>I would really appreciate any insight/help. Thanks!
>
>Best,
>Derek
>
>.............................
>Derek Tom
>IT Manager
>BBDO Hong Kong
> 852.2820.1805
> 852.2877.2167
>
><mailto:derek at bbdo.com dot hk>
><http://www.jwthk.com/derek/>
.............................
Derek Tom
IT Manager
BBDO Hong Kong
852.2820.1805
852.2877.2167
<mailto:derek at bbdo.com dot hk>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 06:18:49 -0800
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Re: FIXED: The archive path does not exist
At 20:57 +0800 10/30/96, Derek Tom wrote:
>I failed to create a folder with the name of my list in the Archive folder.
The next release does this automatically.
>BTW, when is AutoShare 1.0.2 expected to come out?
1.0.2 has been renamed to 1.1, which seems more appropriate. No release
date yet, but I'll let you know once it happens.
--
Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai dot com>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 20:19:24 +0800
From: Derek Tom <derek at bbdo.com dot hk>
Subject: SMTPC: Terminate-Network failure??
Sorry, this is not an AutoShare-specific question.
In my AIMS 1.1.1 Debug Window, I see the following log entry for just about
every outside connection my AIMS server makes after it opens a connection:
SMTPC: Terminate-Network failure
And to a server AIMS is having difficulty delivering to, I see this entry:
SMTPC: Terminate-Remote abort
I would really appreciate any insight. Thanks!
Kind Regards,
Derek
.............................
Derek Tom
IT Manager
BBDO Hong Kong
852.2820.1805
852.2877.2167
<mailto:derek at bbdo.com dot hk>
<http://derek.bbdo.com.hk/>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 09:56:00 -0900
From: Gary Szabo <gszabo at centralia.ctc dot edu>
Subject: Re:SMTPC: Terminate-Network failure??
>Sorry, this is not an AutoShare-specific question.
>
>In my AIMS 1.1.1 Debug Window, I see the following log entry for just about
>every outside connection my AIMS server makes after it opens a connection:
>
> SMTPC: Terminate-Network failure
>
>And to a server AIMS is having difficulty delivering to, I see this entry:
>
> SMTPC: Terminate-Remote abort
>
>
>I would really appreciate any insight. Thanks!
Derek: the following crosspost explains it best:
At 12:39 PM +1300 11/1/96 on the MailShare-L list, Glenn Anderson wrote:
>The messages are not real and are more of a cosmetic problem. They are
>caused by Open Transport sending a Terminate-Network failure notification
>when AIMS disposes the stream it is using. Why OT 1.1.1 is sending this
>notification I do not know. As a result, when AIMS allocates and then
>opens the stream again, it finally notices this notification and displays
>it, so it looks like you get one just when the connection has opened.
>
>Glenn.
>
>-------------------------------------------------------------
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>Macintosh Internet Programmer Phone (mobile) +64 25 518 661
>Apple Internet Mail Server: <http://applenet.apple.com/>
>-------------------------------------------------------------
_________________________________________________________________________
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Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 16:50:30 -0600
From: Dan Brinker <d-brink at uiuc dot edu>
Subject: From Field in Header
I've tried to find the answer to this question on my own, but failed.
Is it possible to set the autoshare server to list itself in the
"From" field of messages it sends? I'm having one hell of a time with
users responding to the list with personal messages not intended for the
list. Can I set it to say messages are from the list, rather than the
sender?
My thanks in advance.
Dan Brinker
--
Daniel Brinker
Assist. Professor of Technical Theatre
University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 19:45:44 -0800
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Re: From Field in Header
At 16:50 -0600 11/5/96, Dan Brinker wrote:
> Is it possible to set the autoshare server to list itself in the
>"From" field of messages it sends? I'm having one hell of a time with
>users responding to the list with personal messages not intended for the
>list. Can I set it to say messages are from the list, rather than the
>sender?
The secret lies in the Reply-To RFC field. When a subscriber responds to a
contribution, the Reply-To adds the list rather than the sender as the new
recipient. You are probably referring to responses intended for the
original sender.
It's really a server configuration thing, and the yet unreleased AutoShare
1.1 adds the feature of whether a given list should have its default
responses sent to the list or the sender.
From a client point of view, the behaviour changes a bit in Eudora when
holding down the option key when replying, as both the original To and
Reply-To get put in the new To field. For a list configured as defaulting
to the list, the two are the same, so only one is added. When configured to
Sender, the original From and Reply-To both are added to the new To field,
as they are different; the user may then choose to delete one of the two
from the To field.
The Reply-To being the list seems to be the dominant convention though.
--
Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai dot com>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 18:40:35 -0800
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Announce: AutoShare 1.1 released
AutoShare 1.1, a freeware listserver and auto-responder for AIMS, has been
released and may be downloaded from
<ftp://ftp.dnai.com/users/m/meh/AutoShare/AutoShare-1.1.sit>
and also from the temporary mirror sites at
<ftp://ftp.math.niu.edu/pub/papers/Hansen/AutoShare-1.1.sit>
<http://www.dcl.co.uk/MacOS/email/autoshare/>
until it's up on Info-Mac in the comm/tcp/mail directory.
Version 1.1 offers
-bug fixes, list-specific features and is fully scriptable
-comes complete with documentation and script samples
-the AutoShare Admin, a new administration tool, which may be
used locally or remotely on AppleTalk network
-subscription, open, moderated, announcement and private lists
-AIMS and AutoShare may reside on separate AppleTalk Macs
-CodeWarrior versions native to both 68K and PowerPC
-lists in the 100's and subscribers in the 1000's per list
-very stable beta track record
-new poll auto-response feature
--
Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai dot com>
To subscribe to the AutoShare-Talk list, a forum for discussing
topics on AutoShare, please write to the listserver address at
<mailto:autoshare at frutiger.staffs.ac dot uk>
with the following in the first line of the body of the message
subscribe autoshare-talk
Web surfing is available at <http://www.dnai.com/~meh/autoshare/>
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 20:53:29 -0800
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Remote administration by e-mail
Remote administration in AutoShare 1.1 is accomplished by means of
scripting on an AppleTalk network. There may be situations when the list
administrator is outside the boundaries of the network, and as the Internet
is everywhere, I have uploaded a draft, which allows the body of an e-mail
to be compiled into a script in AppleScript and run immediately.
<ftp://ftp.dnai.com/users/m/meh/AutoShare/AutoShare-More/ScriptMail.sit>
My Script By Mail script requires ScriptServer, a $20 shareware AppleScript
OSA build program by Jon Pugh. The home of ScriptServer is at
<http://www.infoworkshop.com/~jonpugh/>
Script By Mail extracts the body from an e-mail message and passes it onto
ScriptServer, which compiles and runs the script. Script By Mail takes care
of some error handling to insure stability, but does not return errors or
responses at this point. Please beware that a path must be changed at the
beginning of the script before saving it as an AppleScript application.
Feel free to improve the script!
--
Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai.com> <http://www.dnai dot com/~meh/autoshare/>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 18:48:40 -0800
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Admin with built-in extension
If the Admin cannot locate the FaceSpan extension in the Extensions folder
(only a single user has reported this), do let me know and then download
this Admin with a built-in extension instead:
<ftp://ftp.dnai.com/users/m/meh/AutoShare/AutoShare-More/CompleteAdmin.sit>
--
Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai dot com>
From: john at infoback dot net (John M. Reese)
Subject: Remotely ADDING accounts?
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 03:35:25 -0600
Is there any possible way to remotely ADD new accounts?
I guess, this would mainly affect AIMS - so is there a script
or application that one can use to add a new account via Internet
Email or the Web?
I am working on an application right now and this capability
would be great.
Thanks for any and all information!
~John
=======================================================
John M. Reese, Pres./CEO john at infoback dot net
InfoBack Corporation Auto-reply: info at infoback dot net
"The Email-On-Demand Network" w w w . i n f o b a c k . n e t
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 08:40:12 -0800
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Re: Remotely ADDING accounts?
At 03:35 -0600 11/18/96, John M. Reese wrote:
>Is there any possible way to remotely ADD new accounts?
>I guess, this would mainly affect AIMS - so is there a script
>or application that one can use to add a new account via Internet
>Email or the Web?
AIMS unfortunately is not currently scriptable, which would solve all
problems with inter-application communication. Full scriptability is a
major task to implement though. I brought up this issue on the MailShare-L
list more than half a year ago. You may want to ask again on MailShare-L to
get an up-to-date status.
Imagine a simple script in AppleScript such as this:
tell application "AIMS"
make new account with properties {}
end tell
--
Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai dot com>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 06:58:11 -0600
From: "Don W. Strickland" <Don-Strickland at easy dot com>
Subject: Re: Remote administration by e-mail
What sort of security are you using? I would be very uneasy about
allowing scripting via e-mail without some very solid security to
prevent anyone but me from running a script by just mailing it to
my server.
Therefore, please be sure this does not become a default feature
of AutoShare but rather something that can be turned on only after
carefull security authentication is setup, perhaps PGP.
Also, I think it would be imparitive that any scripted change via
e-mail should send a message to the postmaster.
imo,
dws.
At 1:00 AM +0000 11/19/96, AutoShare bounce account wrote:
>Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 20:53:29 -0800
>From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
>Subject: Remote administration by e-mail
>
>Remote administration in AutoShare 1.1 is accomplished by means of
>scripting on an AppleTalk network. There may be situations when the list
>administrator is outside the boundaries of the network, and as the Internet
>is everywhere, I have uploaded a draft, which allows the body of an e-mail
>to be compiled into a script in AppleScript and run immediately.
>
> <ftp://ftp.dnai.com/users/m/meh/AutoShare/AutoShare-More/ScriptMail.sit>
>
>My Script By Mail script requires ScriptServer, a $20 shareware AppleScript
>OSA build program by Jon Pugh. The home of ScriptServer is at
>
> <http://www.infoworkshop.com/~jonpugh/>
>
>Script By Mail extracts the body from an e-mail message and passes it onto
>ScriptServer, which compiles and runs the script. Script By Mail takes care
>of some error handling to insure stability, but does not return errors or
>responses at this point. Please beware that a path must be changed at the
>beginning of the script before saving it as an AppleScript application.
>
>Feel free to improve the script!
>
>--
>Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai.com> <http://www.dnai dot com/~meh/autoshare/>
>
>
>
>============================================================
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 09:51:30 +0000
From: james at frutiger.staffs.ac dot uk (James Berriman)
Subject: Re: Remotely ADDING accounts?
>Is there any possible way to remotely ADD new accounts?
>I guess, this would mainly affect AIMS - so is there a script
>or application that one can use to add a new account via Internet
>Email or the Web?
Here's one way if you have NetPresenz:
1. use a SITE A QUIT FTP command to quit AIMS
2. upload a new AIMS prefs file with the new accounts configured (you may
have to delete the old prefs first)
3. use a SITE A OAPP FTP command to relaunch AIMS
Can't remember the AIMS creator code offhand. You should be able to script
all this in Anarchie (I hazard a guess).
( :-]) James
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 07:49:44 -0800
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Re: Remote administration by e-mail
At 06:58 -0600 11/19/96, Don W. Strickland wrote:
> What sort of security are you using? I would be very uneasy about
> allowing scripting via e-mail without some very solid security to
> prevent anyone but me from running a script by just mailing it to
> my server.
Security is an important issue, and unless you feel comfortable with
AppleScript, this project may not be for you at this point. Do remember
that you are free to make changes in the script.
You can do a lot to insure security:
1. Use an AIMS account, whose user name is difficult to guess. You may view
the user name as a password in itself.
2. You may enhance the Script By Mail script to include a snippet, which
compares a mailed password against a password residing on the server before
the script in the body gets compiled.
3. You may also enhance the script by writing a line to the log.
This should definitely do it.
The work on this little project is progressing. The result from a processed
AutoShare command may now be returned to the sender of the e-mail. This
comes in handy when the AutoShare command focuses on the result more than a
change being made to server files. The GetLists is such a case, as it
updates no files, but returns a list of listserver lists.
--
Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai dot com>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 12:02:56 -0700
From: sjones at centum.utulsa dot edu (Steve Jones)
Subject: AutoShare 1.1 not keeping prefs?
Hi:
Is anyone else having a problem with the latest version of AutoShare not
"remembering" preferences? Each time I start it up it goes blank in terms
of folders, postmaster and bounce account names, etc. Is it me
(...probably)?
Thanks,
Sj
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 12:25:48 -0800
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Re: AutoShare 1.1 not keeping prefs?
At 12:02 -0700 11/20/96, Steve Jones wrote:
>Is anyone else having a problem with the latest version of AutoShare not
>"remembering" preferences? Each time I start it up it goes blank in terms
>of folders, postmaster and bounce account names, etc. Is it me
>(...probably)?
Probably your disk. Have you checked with Disk First Aid or Norton? You may
also want to drag the preferences file out of the folder and restart
AutoShare in order to create a new file from scratch.
--
Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai dot com>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 22:00:20 -0800
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Remote administration by e-mail II
Remote administration in AutoShare 1.1 is accomplished by means of
scripting on an AppleTalk network. There may be situations when the list
administrator is outside the boundaries of the network, and as the Internet
is everywhere, I have uploaded a small collection of scripts and text
files, which allows the body of an e-mail to be compiled into a script in
AppleScript and run immediately.
<ftp://ftp.dnai.com/users/m/meh/AutoShare/AutoShare-More/ScriptMail.sit>
The Script By Mail script requires ScriptServer, a $20 shareware
AppleScript OSA build program by Jon Pugh. The home of ScriptServer is at
<http://www.infoworkshop.com/~jonpugh/>
Script By Mail extracts the body from an e-mail message and passes it onto
ScriptServer, which compiles and runs the script. Script By Mail takes care
of some error handling to insure stability; it also returns a response if
the script processes fine, or an error if it doesn't.
Please beware that some paths and other information MUST be changed at the
beginning of the Script By Mail script before saving it as an AppleScript
application. The Sample Script Text needs a few similar changes too besides
changing the AutoShare command in question.
Password protection has been added, so that the first word of the last line
in the e-mailed script text must match a password inside Script By Mail. It
is furthermore recommended, that the account to be e-mailed to is
configured with a user name, which is difficult to guess. This goes for the
name of the file in docs/autoshare folder as well.
Beware that if you as an AppleScript savvy AutoShare administrator hand out
your password to someone else, this person, even halfway around the world,
is able to shut down your server by sending this script: 'tell application
"Finder" to shut down'. Enjoy :-)
--
Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai.com> <http://www.dnai dot com/~meh/autoshare/>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 23:50:10 -0800
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Script By Mail
I have uploaded the seemingly final version of Script By Mail at
<ftp://ftp.dnai.com/users/m/meh/AutoShare/AutoShare-More/ScriptMail.sit>
The separate SaveFile application is no longer needed.
--
Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai.com> <http://www.dnai dot com/~meh/autoshare/>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 16:40:10 +0100
From: Christoph Reichenberger <chrei at unisoft.co dot at>
Subject: AutoAnswer to include original mail?
Dear Autoshare friends,
I am wondering whether it is possible to include the
incoming mail in an automated answer? E.g. by placing
any placeholder in the file "Default" that will be
replaced by the body of the incoming mail?
Did I overlook it in the docu or is this feature
not (yet;-) -> Mikael, can you hear the request ;-)
implemented.
Thanks
Christoph
------------------------------------------------
Christoph Reichenberger Tel: +43-7236-3338-82
UNI SOFTWARE PLUS GMBH Fax: +43-7236-3338-30
Softwarepark Hagenberg, mailto:chrei at unisoft.co dot at (preferred)
A-4232 Hagenberg, Austria mailto:chr at swp.co dot at
http://www.unisoft.co.at/e/Staff/christoph.html
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 08:53:51 -0800
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Re: AutoAnswer to include original mail?
At 16:40 +0100 11/26/96, Christoph Reichenberger wrote:
>Dear Autoshare friends,
>
>I am wondering whether it is possible to include the
>incoming mail in an automated answer? E.g. by placing
>any placeholder in the file "Default" that will be
>replaced by the body of the incoming mail?
>
>Did I overlook it in the docu or is this feature
>not (yet;-) -> Mikael, can you hear the request ;-)
>implemented.
If you add the line
Monaco/=original
to any auto-response document, this placeholder will be replaced by the
body contents of the original mail, when mail is processed. This works
for both standard auto-responses and listserver requests.
Please see the sample documents for further information!
--
Mikael Hansen <<mailto:meh at dnai dot com>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 19:32:29 +0100
From: Christoph Reichenberger <chrei at unisoft.co dot at>
Subject: Re: AutoAnswer to include original mail?
Mikael,
<<<<<<<<
>>>>
If you add the line
Monaco/=original
to any auto-response document, this placeholder will be replaced by the
body contents of the original mail, when mail is processed. This works
for both standard auto-responses and listserver requests.
Please see the sample documents for further information!
Thanks for the prompt information and I apologize that I didn't have
a look at the sample documents. However I can at least say that I
read the documentation before asking the list ;-)
It might be an idea to add one sentence to the read me file,
just to tell the readers that this feature exists and they
should refer to the sample documents.
Thanks again. - Great tool!
Christoph
------------------------------------------------
Christoph Reichenberger Tel: +43-7236-3338-82
UNI SOFTWARE PLUS GMBH Fax: +43-7236-3338-30
Softwarepark Hagenberg, mailto:chrei at unisoft.co dot at (preferred)
A-4232 Hagenberg, Austria mailto:chr at swp.co dot at
http://www.unisoft.co.at/e/Staff/christoph.html
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 12:27:56 -0800
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Headers and footers
Here's a feature, which has status as documented, but just hasn't been
documented anywhere :-)
If you would like headers and/or footers to appear in list contributions
processed on your server, add line-based "Header." and
"Footer." files to the docs/autoshare folder (where the sub, unsub,
review etc docs go).
AutoShare automatically inserts the contents of these files into the
contribution being processed; the header is placed immediately after the
blank line following the RFC header, and the footer is placed at the very
end of the body.
As an example, the file "Footer.fun-l" causes all contributions to the
fun-l list to include a footer with the contents of this file.
--
Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai.com> <http://www.dnai dot com/~meh/autoshare/>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 18:28:05 -0800
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Re: AutoAnswer to include original mail?
At 19:32 +0100 11/26/96, Christoph Reichenberger wrote:
>Thanks for the prompt information and I apologize that I didn't have
>a look at the sample documents. However I can at least say that I
>read the documentation before asking the list ;-)
Much appreciated :-) And no reason to apologize!
>It might be an idea to add one sentence to the read me file, just
>to tell the readers that this feature exists and they should refer
>to the sample documents.
There's a line in the somewhat cumbersome 1.0 Documentation under How to
install AutoShare, Subject based text files, see
<http://www.dnai.com/~meh/autoshare/documentation/index.html#[II.4]>
All /= tokens known to 1.0 are located in this section. The newer additions
can be found in the 1.1 addendum.
In any event, my best recommendation in general is to start out with the
Read-Me-First.html located at the top of the AutoShare package and take it
from there, preferably the Samples page first.
--
Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai.com> <http://www.dnai dot com/~meh/autoshare/>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 18:58:09 -0800
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: AppleScript
If you would like to get a good feel for which software is scriptable, you
are encouraged to take a look at
<http://www.latenightsw.com/scripting.html#PRODUCTS>
The list now listing AutoShare includes Internet programs such as Eudora
and Fetch and also a bunch of AppleScript utilities. Right above the
Products section are sections to make non-scripters feel welcome in the
world of scripting. Very nice web page with references to primarily
AppleScript, but also Frontier!
--
Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai.com> <http://www.dnai dot com/~meh/autoshare/>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 11:21:04 +0800
From: Derek Tom <derek at bbdo.com dot hk>
Subject: Auto-rollover feature activation
First off...thanks, Mikael, for creating and continually improving such a
great product and releasing it for free!
I'd like to take advantage of AutoShare 1.1's new "rollover of archive
files" feature. I'm neither AppleScript- nor ResEdit-savvy but think I
would have no problem using ResEdit to change the proper value.
As I understand it, I just need to know the proper resID and resIndex
numbers to change. Is this correct? If so, what are those STR# resources?
If this is incorrect... please help! ;)
Thanks for your time.
Best Regards,
Derek Tom
.............................
Derek Tom
IT Manager
BBDO Hong Kong
852.2820.1805
852.2877.2167
<mailto:derek at bbdo.com dot hk>
<http://derek.bbdohk.com/>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 22:03:48 -0800
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Re: Auto-rollover feature activation
At 11:21 +0800 11/27/96, Derek Tom wrote:
>First off...thanks, Mikael, for creating and continually improving such
>a great product and releasing it for free!
Thanks! happy to hear that.
>I'd like to take advantage of AutoShare 1.1's new "rollover of archive
>files" feature. I'm neither AppleScript- nor ResEdit-savvy but think I
>would have no problem using ResEdit to change the proper value.
>
>As I understand it, I just need to know the proper resID and resIndex
>numbers to change. Is this correct? If so, what are those STR# resources?
>If this is incorrect... please help! ;)
Good question. Let's do ResEdit first. Following 'The AutoShare Preferences
file and its list-specific configuration' section in the 1.1 addendum,
click on STR# 1001 and look in field 1 for a list name matching the one I
am searching. If not in 1001,1, then move onto 1002,1 etc. Once the list
has been found, go to field 12. If the field is -1, it means it is picking
up the general value found in STR# 1000; if it's 0, then no rollover takes
place. You probably want enter a value greater than zero. Now type in, say,
'200' in field 12 of the list, which means that rollover takes place once
the current archive file has reached 200 contributions. The value would
depend on, say, how busy the list is, but it's entirely up to you.
Using a resource editor may come in handy at times, but I myself use
AppleScript whenever I can. Click on the Script Editor and create a new
script (command-N). Type in the following:
tell application "AutoShare.68k" -- or AutoShare.ppc!
SetList List Options {List: "fun-l", Messages: 200}
end tell
And run the script (command-R). That was easy! PS: drag the AutoShare icon
onto the Script Editor icon, and amazing things will happen.
The third way is to use the Admin. Select the Configuration/List menu item,
double-click on the fun-l list, type in '200' in the Messages field, and
press the Update button. Probably the easiest way :-)
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Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai.com> <http://www.dnai dot com/~meh/autoshare/>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 09:10:03 +0000
From: Phil Gyford <phil at wired.co dot uk>
Subject: Limiting list contributions
Is there any way t0 prevent postings to lists which include attachments, or
just postings over a certain size?
Thanks!
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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:04:34 -0800
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Re: Limiting list contributions
At 09:10 +0000 11/27/96, Phil Gyford wrote:
>Is there any way t0 prevent postings to lists which include attachments,
>or just postings over a certain size?
I once did it, so attachments from such postings do not appear in the
archives. I didn't however apply this restriction to the mail itself. Maybe
I should have. I'll look into making this optional on a per list basis.
Thanks for bringing up this issue.
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Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai dot com>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 17:19:23 +0000
From: james at frutiger.staffs.ac dot uk (James Berriman)
Subject: Re: Limiting list contributions
>Is there any way t0 prevent postings to lists which include attachments, or
>just postings over a certain size?
>
>Thanks!
Yes. A tip for everyone:
1. Drag AutoShare onto Script Editor.
2. Select all the AppleScript suites by shift-clicking on their names in the left pane of the dictionary window. All of AutoShare's commands will show up in the right hand pane.
3. Print out the full AutoShare dictionary for future reference :-)
The answer:
tell application "AutoShare.68k" -- or AutoShare.ppc!
SetList List Options {List: "fun-l", Lines: 200} -- choose a value
end tell
( :-]) James
From: "Trevor Peirce" <mshare at info.bethany.wvnet dot edu>
Subject: Docs acting up
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 11:47:48 -0500
We did a fresh install of AutoShare 1.1 on a Quadra 800, running 7.5.1 and AIMS.
When sending a "List" command, we get the proper document returned, but "/=list
". When sending a ""sub" or "review" command, we just get back the
default document.
On the other hand, AutoShare 1.1 is working fine on our other server, a Quadra
950, running 7.5.
Any ideas??
-- Trevor
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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 09:26:58 -0800
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Re: Limiting list contributions
At 17:19 +0000 11/27/96, James Berriman wrote:
>tell application "AutoShare.68k" -- or AutoShare.ppc!
> SetList List Options {List: "fun-l", Lines: 200} -- choose a value
>end tell
See, James knows more about AutoShare than I do ;-) The BinHex lines of an
enclosure count too!
The above solution blocks the posting entirely (except with very small
enclosures) rather than posting the message without the enclosure.
--
Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai dot com>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 13:13:08 -0800
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Re: Docs acting up
At 11:47 -0500 11/27/96, Trevor Peirce wrote:
>When sending a "List" command, we get the proper document returned, but
"/=list ". When sending a ""sub" or "review" command, we just
The trailing space in a "/list " line would cause this. Let us know if this
is it. Thanks.
I'll fix this.
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Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai dot com>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 11:34:37 +0000
From: Phil Gyford <phil at wired.co dot uk>
Subject: Slow processing
A couple of months ago I was having problems with Autoshare processing
posts to a list rather slowly. There are about 40 people on the list, and
it gets at least 100 posts a day. When I first switched over to 1.1, the
delay seemed to disappear, and I was of course hugely pleased :) But the
delay seems to be creeping back in - it now takes 25-30 seconds to process
a post to the list, which seems rather excessive, and causes the computer
to freeze while it does so. I've tried restarting (as the system's hardly
needed it since I got 1.1 :) ), but it makes no difference. Any ideas why
this might be happening again?
PowerMac 7100, System 7.5.3 update 2, no OT, Autoshare 1.1, AIMS 1.1.1,
WebCenter 1b5, Apple eg
Thanks, and thanks for the advice about limiting postings yesterday!
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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 04:52:58 -0800
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Re: Slow processing
At 11:34 +0000 11/28/96, Phil Gyford wrote:
>A couple of months ago I was having problems with Autoshare processing
>posts to a list rather slowly. There are about 40 people on the list, and
>it gets at least 100 posts a day. When I first switched over to 1.1, the
>delay seemed to disappear, and I was of course hugely pleased :) But the
>delay seems to be creeping back in - it now takes 25-30 seconds to process
>a post to the list, which seems rather excessive, and causes the computer
>to freeze while it does so. I've tried restarting (as the system's hardly
>needed it since I got 1.1 :) ), but it makes no difference. Any ideas why
>this might be happening again?
I see no reason for this recent change in speed as far as 1.1 is concerned.
One of the best things you can do is to shut down all software except AIMS,
send a contribution, shut down AIMS once the message file has arrived in
the Filed Mail folder, start up AutoShare and watch for how long it takes
for a message file to show up in the Incoming Mail folder. The information
in the Status window may also be of some help to you. Afterwards, you may
return to your normal setup.
The reason for 1.1 being faster than 1.0 is primarily the removal of a
delay factor, which served as a time cushion due to a file clash bug in
earlier versions, and so 1.1 is wasting no time, but really flies.
The overall structure of AutoShare causes contributions to leave the
listserver environment very quickly, as there is no mail transaction
transferring all the list subscribers on a per contribution basis. This is
a tremendous speed boost.
--
Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai dot com>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 06:10:54 -0800
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Re: Slow processing
At 04:52 -0800 11/28/96, Mikael Hansen wrote:
>The overall structure of AutoShare causes contributions to leave the
>listserver environment very quickly, as there is no mail transaction
>transferring all the list subscribers on a per contribution basis.
>This is a tremendous speed boost.
Here are some tests conducted on a 7500/100 with System 7.5.5, OT 1.1.1 and
64MB of virtual memory turned on. Eudora Pro and BBEdit were also running
at the time. With AutoShare running, I was dropping sample messages files
into the Filed Mail folder and watching for when Finder would show the
files in the Incoming Mail folder.
Subscribers Seconds(ppc) Seconds(68k)
100 4 4
500 6 6
2000 12 12
10000 30 42
40000 90 150
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Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai dot com>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 15:18:04 +0000
From: Bill Bedford <billbpm at mousa.demon.co dot uk>
Subject: Re:Slow processing
~A couple of months ago I was having problems with Autoshare processing
~posts to a list rather slowly. There are about 40 people on the list, and
~it gets at least 100 posts a day. When I first switched over to 1.1, the
~delay seemed to disappear, and I was of course hugely pleased :) But the
~delay seems to be creeping back in - it now takes 25-30 seconds to process
~a post to the list, which seems rather excessive, and causes the computer
~to freeze while it does so. I've tried restarting (as the system's hardly
~needed it since I got 1.1 :) ), but it makes no difference. Any ideas why
~this might be happening again?
~
Just a thought - How often do you produce logs? and digests? This sounds
very much like a file getting too big for Autoshare to deal with it
efficently. I've recently had smilar problems with an Anarchie log file
that got to 300k +
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 14:27:19 -0800
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Re:Slow processing
At 15:18 +0000 11/28/96, Bill Bedford wrote:
>Just a thought - How often do you produce logs? and digests? This sounds
>very much like a file getting too big for Autoshare to deal with it
>efficently. I've recently had smilar problems with an Anarchie log file
>that got to 300k +
And a good thought, it is. Updating larger archive files by itself does not
take longer though. It's what happens immediately before when pre-scanning
the toc file for the current archive, as a contribution counter must be
established. While this never gets out of hand with digests, it may happen
to archives if the rollover value is set to zero, which eliminates rollover
at any time, and so the the files just keep getting bigger and bigger.
Doing a test with a Current.toc of close to 200K and holding more than 1200
entries, the entire processing of a message file took close to 30 seconds.
1200 is far beyond 200, which may be a common rollover value.
I did notice an interesting little semi-bug here, as I have forgotten to
yield time to other applications when obtaining the counter. This has been
fixed.
--
Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai dot com>
From: "Trevor Peirce" <mshare at info.bethany.wvnet dot edu>
Subject: Re: Docs Acting Up
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 11:24:15 -0500
> >When sending a "List" command, we get the proper document returned, but
> >"/=list ". When sending a ""sub" or "review" command, we just
>
> The trailing space in a "/list " line would cause this. Let us know if this
> is it. Thanks.
>
> I'll fix this.
>
> --
> Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai dot com>
Trailing space doesn't seem to be the answer: List, Release, & Which all return
the proper document, but (bad token), while Help, Index, Query, and Review just
give the default file.
I tried temporarily copying the Auto and AutoShare folders to our other mail
server where they performed flawlessly! Can't for the life of me figure what is
going on on the one machine and not on the other...
The problem machine is a Quadra 800 -- originally with 7.5.1, now 7.5.5 but the
problem persisted under both versions. The machine on which AutoShare worked OK
is a Quadra 950 running 7.5. Both are running AIMS 1.1.1 and no other apps.
Any suggestions would be more than appreciated.
-- Trevor
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* Prof. Emeritus Psychology *
* Now enjoying retirement in *
* the Bethany College *
* Computer Lab *
* *
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Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 09:17:44 -0800
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Re: Docs Acting Up
At 11:24 -0500 11/29/96, Trevor Peirce wrote:
>Trailing space doesn't seem to be the answer: List, Release, & Which
>all return the proper document, but (bad token), while Help, Index
>Query, and Review just give the default file.
Looks like you are in no luck. How about the configuration of the bounce
address?
I'm getting curious :-) Please mail me the List document with the /=list
line. I also need the e-mail address of your listserver.
Furthermore, please send me a fresh Analysis file.
>I tried temporarily copying the Auto and AutoShare folders to our other
>mail server where they performed flawlessly! Can't for the life of me
>figure what is going on on the one machine and not on the other...
Ditto for this server. Thanks.
--
Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai dot com>
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 00:47:04 +0000
From: Phil Gyford <phil at wired.co dot uk>
Subject: Lost Autoshare.PPC
Me again! I'll give all your suggestions for my delayed list processing at
the weekend, thanks.
However, another problem... I restarted our AIMS/ Autoshare machine today,
as it crashed, and now when I open Autoshare Admin, and try and tell it
where Autoshare.PPC is, it keeps asking me where Autoshare.68K is. It won't
accept it if I point it to the PPC version. Sometimes clicking the 'Cancel'
button on the open dialog seemed to make it give up, and I got the list and
subscribers details up, but I couldn't edit them, as it started asking me
to find Autoshare.68K again.... I've never tried to run .68K on the 7100,
so how do I get it to ask for .PPC?
Your patience is appreciated :)
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Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 18:22:04 -0800
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Re: Lost Autoshare.PPC
At 00:47 +0000 11/30/96, Phil Gyford wrote:
>when I open Autoshare Admin, and try and tell it where Autoshare.PPC is,
>it keeps asking me where Autoshare.68K is.
The Admin does not ask for the 68K or PPC version specifically. It simply
asks for AutoShare.
>It won't accept it if I point it to the PPC version.
From the Configuration menu, choose the Where... menu item. Click on the
Local button, and a standard file dialog shows up. You locate the PPC
version and single-click the entry, then click the Open button.
Details are appreciated :-)
In any event, the Admin forgets about where AutoShare is, if the latter is
shut down and restarted.
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Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai dot com>
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 19:35:49 -0800
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Re: Lost Autoshare.PPC
At 00:47 +0000 11/30/96, Phil Gyford wrote:
>I restarted our AIMS/ Autoshare machine today, as it crashed,
Come to think of it, have you run Disk First Aid or Norton? You may want
also want to download a new Admin.
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Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai dot com>
From: James Berriman <james at frutiger.staffs.ac dot uk>
Subject: Re: Lost Autoshare.PPC
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 14:24:29 +0000
At 02:22 30/11/96, Mikael Hansen wrote:
>At 00:47 +0000 11/30/96, Phil Gyford wrote:
>
>>when I open Autoshare Admin, and try and tell it where Autoshare.PPC is,
>>it keeps asking me where Autoshare.68K is.
>
>The Admin does not ask for the 68K or PPC version specifically. It simply
>asks for AutoShare.
I usually rename the 68K to AutoShare.app, but I often get a dialog asking=
where AutoShare.68K is. Generally, if I have problems selecting the app, I=
just repeat the process until it sticks. FWIW, I'm not certain that this=
has much to do with the Admin or Facespan. It seems to be more of a generic=
Applescript problem.
I may, of course, be entirely mistaken ;-)
( :-]) James
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 09:40:35 +0000
From: Phil Gyford <phil at wired.co dot uk>
Subject: Re: AutoShare.PPC and Re: Slow processing
>Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 18:22:04 -0800
>From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
>Subject: Re: Lost Autoshare.PPC
>
>>when I open Autoshare Admin, and try and tell it where Autoshare.PPC is,
>>it keeps asking me where Autoshare.68K is.
>
>The Admin does not ask for the 68K or PPC version specifically. It simply
>asks for AutoShare.
Mine certainly does ask for the 68K version. It keeps asking for it
whenever I try and do anything, but repeatedly selecting Autoshare.PPC (3-5
times) usually gets it to actually do something.
>>I restarted our AIMS/ Autoshare machine today, as it crashed,
>
>Come to think of it, have you run Disk First Aid or Norton? You may want
>also want to download a new Admin.
Disk First Aid reported no errors, and I've got a new Admin.
>Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 14:27:19 -0800
>From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
>Subject: Re:Slow processing
>
>And a good thought, it is. Updating larger archive files by itself does not
>take longer though. It's what happens immediately before when pre-scanning
>the toc file for the current archive, as a contribution counter must be
>established. While this never gets out of hand with digests, it may happen
>to archives if the rollover value is set to zero, which eliminates rollover
>at any time, and so the the files just keep getting bigger and bigger.
Ah yes - our archive file was at 1.7Mb!!! Should have noticed that :) I've
set a rollover value now, so all should be hunkydory... Thanks.
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Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 14:34:54 +0100
From: jose.accino at ice.uma dot es (Jose A. Accino)
Subject: Problems subscribing to a list
I'm running in trouble subscribing to a newly created list. I'm
currently managing two lists without problems. However, when I've
created a third one, I'm unable to subscribe it.
I send the subscribe message and I even received the 'welcome'
message I wrote for that list. However, the subscribers list
in the LS folder is not being updated and it remains as a
empty file. I've checked the hard disk just to discard any
trouble with corrupted files, but the problem remains.
Updating the file manually with a text editor, I'm recognized
as a subscriber, however.
Any help? (I'm still using 1.0 fix version)
Also, I've just downloaded the new 1.1 version. Any special tricks
to be aware for updating?
Regards,
Jose Alfonso
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Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 08:13:11 -0800
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Re: AutoShare.PPC and Re: Slow processing
At 09:40 +0000 12/2/96, Phil Gyford wrote:
>Mine certainly does ask for the 68K version. It keeps asking for it
>whenever I try and do anything, but repeatedly selecting Autoshare.PPC
>(3-5 times) usually gets it to actually do something.
Could you send me a screendump (command-shift-3) of the dialog? I just have
never seen it! Thanks.
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Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai dot com>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 08:38:20 -0800
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Re: Problems subscribing to a list
At 14:34 +0100 12/2/96, Jose A. Accino wrote:
>I'm running in trouble subscribing to a newly created list. I'm
>currently managing two lists without problems. However, when I've
>created a third one, I'm unable to subscribe it.
Most likely some small thing done differently.
>I send the subscribe message and I even received the 'welcome'
>message I wrote for that list. However, the subscribers list
>in the LS folder is not being updated and it remains as a
>empty file. I've checked the hard disk just to discard any
>trouble with corrupted files, but the problem remains.
>
>Updating the file manually with a text editor, I'm recognized
>as a subscriber, however.
Do you have a /=sub line in the sub file?
Can you send a copy of the Analysis file to me? Thanks.
>X-Sender: jose.accino at correo.ice.uma dot es
>From: jose.accino at ice.uma dot es (Jose A. Accino)
Your RFC header may be an indication of a multi-domain environment. If
correo.ice.uma.es is the domain of the bounce address, ice.uma.es should
probably be in the host configuration. This pertains to contributions only
though.
>Any help? (I'm still using 1.0 fix version)
There may be a chance that 1.0 bug causes the above, although I can't tell
for sure.
With AIMS running and AutoShare down, you may also want to take a look at
the file in the Filed Mail folder (send a copy to me), then shut down AIMS
and start up AutoShare again and look at the file in the Incoming mail
folder (send a copy to me), and then start up AIMS to return to normal.
Compress the above three 3 files with, say, StuffIt to preserve resource
forks before sending them to me, and I'll look into it.
>Also, I've just downloaded the new 1.1 version. Any special tricks
>to be aware for updating?
If you are not using any of the 1.1 features, 1.1 pretty much acts like a
bug-free 1.0. The one thing to keep in mind is that the preferences are
stored in the resource fork of the AutoShare Preferences file, not the data
fork.
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Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai dot com>
Date: 2 Dec 1996 14:04:47 U
From: "Chuck Boody" <chuck_boody at hopkins.k12.mn dot us>
Subject: Re: AutoShare-Talk digest 28
Three strange issues using 1.1 any help/thoughts out there would be
appreciated:
1) When I started using Autoshare 1.1 (autoshare.ppc) it did not pick up my
lists. I had to restart it several times before it finally read them and
became aware of them. Now that seems to be fine.
2) I've had problems trying to run the Autoshare Administrator. It
repeatedly asks where Autoshare.68K is. Two difficulties with this: a) I'm
using Autoshare.ppc not Autoshare.68K {I suspect this is just a little bug in
the question it is asking} and b) even when I select Autoshare.ppc it does not
remember where it is the next time I run the administrator. I had no luck
using the Administrator to update my preferences, so I used Res-Edit--however
that problem was before problem 1 above solved itself. I suspect the
Administrator might work now but the strange question and its forgetfulness
worries me. Any re-assurances out there??
3) Is anyone trying to use the Frontier Listserv.fcgi? Mine runs just fine,
but does not work correctly. It sends the message to the listserv with
(apparently) the proper contents but regardless of what message I send it
returns the default (error) message from the listserv. I've tried using the
form exactly as it was sent to me with the package (changing only the listserv
name and the mailer address of course) and I 've tried both subject and body
based messages. I'm using the older listserv.cgi (which works correctly with
no problems), but would like to move to the much faster and cleaner frontier
package. I know this is not an Autoshare issue, but thought perhaps someone
out here might know the answer. If I find an answer to this I'll post it.
Finally: I *huge* THANK YOU (yes I'm shouting but not in anger!) to Mikael
for continuing to improve and add to Autoshare. It is a fine product and his
support is wonderful. I once wrote Steve Wozniack (around spring of 1977)
with a question about the Apple II disk operating system and the internal
firmware. He sent me a xerox of his hand written notes alongside of his
assembler listings. Mikael reminds me of the good things about the good old
days: Folks trying to provide helpful programs for other folks. Bravo sir!!
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 13:05:07 -0800
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Re: AutoShare-Talk digest 28
At 14:04 +0000 12/2/96, Chuck Boody wrote:
>1) When I started using Autoshare 1.1 (autoshare.ppc) it did not pick up
>my lists. I had to restart it several times before it finally read them
>and became aware of them. Now that seems to be fine.
Good. Let me know if it happens again.
>2) I've had problems trying to run the Autoshare Administrator. It
>repeatedly asks where Autoshare.68K is.
Could you send me a screendump (command-shift-3) of the dialog? I just have
never seen it! Thanks.
Also, the Admin forgets about where AutoShare is, if the latter is shut
down and restarted.
>3) Is anyone trying to use the Frontier Listserv.fcgi?
Sorry. I haven't looked at this for very long. Perhaps Mark or James can
help you out.
>Finally: I *huge* THANK YOU (yes I'm shouting but not in anger!) to
>Mikael for continuing to improve and add to Autoshare. It is a fine
>product and his support is wonderful. I once wrote Steve Wozniack
>(around spring of 1977) with a question about the Apple II disk
>operating system and the internal firmware. He sent me a xerox of
>his hand written notes alongside of his assembler listings. Mikael
>reminds me of the good things about the good old days: Folks trying
>to provide helpful programs for other folks. Bravo sir!!
Thanks :-) And thank you for helping making it better!
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Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai dot com>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 10:58:01 +0100
From: jose.accino at ice.uma dot es (Jose A. Accino)
Subject: Re: Problems subscribing (SOLVED)
>>Updating the file manually with a text editor, I'm recognized
>>as a subscriber, however.
>
>Do you have a /=3Dsub line in the sub file?
Yup! That little thing! :-) It's been a long time since I created the
other two lists and I didn't remember about that. All is running fine
now.
Thanks Mikael for your very helpful message. It's like an 'Autoshare
troubleshooting guide'! I will upgrade now to 1.1.
Thanks again for all your efforts.
Jos=E9 Alfonso.
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