Special Libraries Association,
Communications Division

SLA-DCOM Mailing List

The Communications Division has an unmoderated discussion list, SLA-DCOM, for its members. Its purpose is to facilitate professional communication among librarians and other information professionals in the telecommunications industry. The list runs on the SLA mailing list software (listproc), which automates subscribing and unsubscribing.

Note: We completed our migration to the SLA mailing list software on September 24, 1998. Thanks to Qualcomm for their prior hosting of the mailing list.

• To subscribe
  
  Send email to: listserv@listserv.sla.org
  with no subject line.
  
  Type the following command in the body of your message:
  
  subscribe SLA-DCOM Firstname Lastname

• To unsubscribe
  
  Send email to: listserv@listserv.sla.org
  with no subject line.
  
  Type the following command in the body of your message:
  
  signoff SLA-DCOM
  or
  unsubscribe SLA-DCOM
  
  

• To post a message to the list
  
  Send email to: sla-dcom@listserv.sla.org
  Subject: (an informative subject line)
  

• To receive information or help
  
  Send a message to: listserv@listserv.sla.org
  Subject: Help SLA-DCOM

Additional Mailing List Information
(Listproc information)

• ********** GETTING YOUR SUBSCRIPTION ATTRIBUTES **********
  
  You may get your current subscription attributes at any time by sending the following request to listserv@listserv.sla.org:
  query SLA-DCOM
  

• ********** WHERE TO SEND EMAIL **********
  
  If you want to post messages to list SLA-DCOM, you should direct your emails to sla-dcom@listserv.sla.org, not listserv@listserv.sla.org.
  
  If you wish to send requests please do not send them to the list -- they will not be processed. Instead direct them to listserv@listserv.sla.org.
  
  Requests sent to listserv@listserv.sla.org should be placed in the body of the email message, not the Subject:. ListProc ignores requests in the Subject: field. You can, however, put as many requests as you like in one mail message; each request should be on a line by itself. If your request is too long for your mailer to handle, you can break it in multiple lines, but each line should end with the character & (ampersand). For example, here are two separate requests:
  
  set SLA-DCOM &
  mail &
  ack help
  
  The ampersands in the above example are immediately followed by carriage returns. The above requests are equivalent to: set SLA-DCOM mail ack help

• ********** DIGESTS **********
  
  All messages posted to this list are also available in daily digests. If you wish to receive messages in digest format you may send the following request to listserv@listserv.sla.org:
  set SLA-DCOM mail digest

• ********** LIST OWNERS **********
  
  The list's owners are mcculley@best.com . You should contact them if there are any problems.

• ********** YOUR LISTPROC PASSWORD **********
  
  The system has assigned you an initial password:
  changeit
  You may change it by sending the following request to listserv@listserv.sla.org:
  set SLA-DCOM password changeit new-password
  where new-password is the new string of characters that you would like to use as your LisrProc password.
  
  WARNING: You should NOT use your login password as this is not a secure mechanism. This password is to be used when when you wish to change the address you are subscribed with.
  
  In this case, send the following request to listserv@listserv.sla.org:
  set SLA-DCOM address changeit new-address
  or when the list requires confirmation for accepting your posts (see above).
  
  Statistics for this list are available to privileged users (e.g. owners) only. Review requests are available to privileged users (e.g. owners) only.

• ********** ACCESS TO THE LIST'S ARCHIVES **********
  
  The list is archived regularly and many, if not all, previous postings are available from this server. All past mail messages are collected into (daily, monthly, etc) logs; to get a list of the available logs for this list you may send the following request to listserv@listserv.sla.org:
  index SLA-DCOM
  
  Each line will show you the log file's name, its size, and a brief comment. You can then get any logs with the GET request. For example, if you wish to get log9611 you may send the following request to listserv@listserv.sla.org:
  get SLA-DCOM log9611
  
  Here we assume log9611 is the name of the log. Log names may not necessarily be uniform.

• ********** HOW TO GET MORE HELP **********
  
  To get more information on how to use this service, please send the following request to listserv@listserv.sla.org:
  HELP
  
  There are far more options, settings, and niceties about ListProcessor(tm) and we encourage you to explore all of them; HELP should be your starting point. Enjoy!
  ListProcessor(tm)

Your comments are welcome. The existing list is owned and managed by Michael McCulley at mcculley@best.com

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