Mooney Email List

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The Mooney Lists

• mooney mooney@aviating.com - general discussions
• mooney-tech mooney-tech@aviating.com - technical issues
• wcmooney wcmooney@aviating.com - West Coast Mooniacs

How to subscribe

Automated Subscribe/Unsubscribe

The best way to subscribe is to use the automated subscribe CGI script! Here's the link: www.aviating.com/mooney/subscribe.html

Email Options

Options are available on the "Mailman" form at the above URL. Without Web access, see the instructions further down on the page.

digest

In digest mode, messages are grouped and sent out approximately once/day. A better way is to set your email reader to parse out ("filter") email into special 'Mooney' and 'Mooney-tech' folders. But a lot of people like the "digest" option.

no-mail

for getting no mail. This is useful for vacation status and for multiple email accounts. Since these are closed lists, you must be subscribed to post. Some people forward some or all of their messages to a second account and the "no-mail" option permits posting from that second account.

Passwords

Here is one place where you should choose an easy to remember password. Match the password for all of your accounts.

Email Filtering

This is used to separate Mooney mail from other mail.

With all Mooney messages separate, you can treat the large amount of Mooney messages differently. Separating the "mooney-tech" messages from the "mooney" messages, you can skim the messages or titles more quickly, since you know the message category.

Most email readers have a filtering ability. Most email lists use the "to" and/or "reply-to" headers to identify the list. Set the reader to automatically place mail with the cognizant "to" or reply-to" headers to drop into separate mail folders.

Changes Via Email

If you have an subscribe/unsubscribe message, don't send it to the mail robot where it belongs. Send it to everyone on the list instead!

Here's a copy of the "help" file. Jav has a "front end, so this is probably not necessary.

From:               (the mooney list)
Subject:            Mailman results for Mooney
To:                 bk269orwhatever@scn.org
Date sent:          Sun Nov  7 02:15:42 1999


***** help
Help for Mooney mailing list:

This is email command help for version 1.0rc3 of the "Mailman" list
manager.  The following describes commands you can send to get
information about and control your subscription to Mailman lists at
this site.  A command can be in the subject line or in the body of the
message.

Note that much of the following can also be accomplished via the World
Wide Web, at:

    http://www.aviating.com/mailman/listinfo/mooney

You can use the Web site to have your password sent to your delivery
address.

List specific commands (subscribe, who, etc) should be sent to the
*-request address for the particular list, e.g. for the 'mailman'
list, use 'mailman-request@...'.

About the descriptions - words in "<>"s signify REQUIRED items and
words in "[]" denote OPTIONAL items.  Do not include the "<>"s or
"[]"s when you use the commands.

The following commands are valid:

    subscribe [password] [digest-option] [address=
]
        Subscribe to the mailing list.  Your password must be given to
        unsubscribe or change your options.  When you subscribe to the
        list, you'll be reminded of your password periodically.
        'digest-option' may be either: 'nodigest' or 'digest' (no quotes!)
         If you wish to subscribe an address other than the address you
        send this request from, you may specify "address="
        (no brackets around the email address, no quotes!)

    unsubscribe  [address]
        Unsubscribe from the mailing list.  Your password must match
        your current password.  If you are trying to
        unsubscribe from a different address than the one you subscribed
        from, you may specify it in the 'address' field.

    who
        See everyone who is on this mailing list.

    info
        View the introductory information for this list.

    lists
        See what mailing lists are run by this Mailman server.

    help
        This message.

    set   
        Turn on or off list options.  Valid options are:

        ack:
            Turn this on to receive acknowlegement mail when you send mail
            to the list.

        digest:
            Receive mail from the list bundled together instead of one
            post at a time.

        plain:
            Get plain-text, not MIME-compliant, digests (only if
            digest is set)

        nomail:
            Stop delivering mail.  Useful if you plan on taking a
            short vacation.

        norcv:
            Turn this on to NOT receive posts you send to the list.
            Does not work if digest is set.

        hide:
            Conceals your address when people look at who is on this
            list.


    options
        Show the current values of your list options.

    password  
        Change your list password.

    end or --
       Stop processing commands (good to do if your mailer
automatically
       adds a signature file - it'll save you from a lot of cruft).


Commands should be sent to mooney-request@

Questions and concerns for the attention of a person should be sent to

mooney-admin@

History

The list was formed in early 1996, courtesy of Doug Fields (http://www.311wc.com/) - (but I believe this link is dead). After two years of tireless work, Akmal Kahn took the left seat and seemingly applied all of SGI's resources (or at least those of his M20K) to fine tuning the list. Akmal turned the list over to Les Niles and Javier Henderson. Javier has a mini-ISP (www.kjsl.com) and now has the alter-ego of www.aviating.com

$  We're on the VAX

Akmal is leaving SGI, so the list has moved to www.aviating.com which is a private domain of Javier Henderson. List Administration will be by Les Niles and Javier. The website is www.aviating.com/mooney/

The efforts of Doug Fields, and Akmal Kahn, Y. Singh, Les Niles, Javier Henderson and others are appreciated by many of us Mooniacs.

Searching the List

THIS MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE BUT TRY ANYWAY! The glimpse search engine and the conversions from majordomo to the database were written mostly for SGI machines and now we're in the VMS (VAX) world!

The list is blocked from browsing by bots but can be searched manually. Go to Akmal's website at reality.sgi.com/mooney/archive/search.cgi The speed at which this sifts through 30,000 (6-98) messages is impressive. With some luck and hard work, it should be available at the new www.aviating.com domain.

The MXserver Help File

administrative requests regarding this list should be sent to

    Internet:   mooney-request@

The following commands can be handled automatically by
mooney-Request@

    subscribe
    unsubscribe         - to remove yourself from the list
    signoff             - to remove yourself from the list
    review              - to get a list of subscribers
    query               - to get the status of your entry on the list
    set nomail          - to remain on the list but not receive mail
    set mail            - to reverse the NOMAIL setting
    set digest          - to receive mail in digest form
                          (same as "subscribe digest")
    set conceal         - to conceal yourself from REVIEW listings
    set noconceal       - to reverse the CONCEAL setting
    set norepro         - to prevent the list from sending you
                          your own postings
    set repro           - to reverse the NOREPRO setting
    list                - to get a list of mailing lists available
                          on this host
    help                - to receive a help file
    quit                - to terminate processing (skipping signature, etc.)

The syntax of these commands for use with the MXserver emulator is:

    signoff mooney
    review  mooney
    query   mooney
    set mooney [no]mail
    set mooney [no]conceal
    set mooney [no]repro
    list
    help
    quit

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