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Northwest Nexus:  How the halcyon-announce mailing list works


Q.  I subscribed to halcyon-announce as you described, but I haven't
    received any announcements, yet.  But I *have* received several
    messages that contain a line like this:

        	Mailed 0 article(s) from 0 group(s)

    Is there something going wrong?

A.  Actually, this means that there's something going right!  We don't
    post announcements every day to halcyon.announce, so that's probably
    why you haven't seen anything yet.

    As for those messages, it's as if you sent someone to your post
    office box to check and see if there was anything in it.  They'd come
    back either with letters and say, "Hey, you got three letters today!"
    or they'd tell you, "Nope, no mail came today."  You get those
    messages twice a day, because the mailing list makes two trips a day
    to the halcyon.announce newsgroup.


Q.  Okay, but I don't need to be told I didn't get anything.  Can I stop
    those messages?  

A.  No, but you can treat them the way you do junk mail -- toss 'em out
    without reading them.  You can do this by hand, by using the
    excellent mail-filtering features that are included in the commercial
    versions of Eudora, or by being brave and writing a procmail script
    to throw away the messages even before you see them.

    Here's where to look for more info:

         Procmail and filtering:
         <http://www.best.com/~ii/internet/mail-news.html>

         Eudora:
	        <http://www.qualcomm.com/>
        	1-800-2EUDORA
	        eudora-sales@qualcomm.com


Q.  Hey, can I use these neat tools to mail newsgroups of my own choosing
    to myself?

A.  Sure -- the tin newsreader and the "at" queue on halcyon are all you
    need, but that's not saying much.  There's a much easier way; check
    our our FAQ entitled:

        	Newsgroups:  Mailing postings in newsgroup to oneself regularly	


Q.  I can't stand it anymore -- how do I get off this list?

A.  If you'd like to be REMOVED from this list, send a mail message to:

        	majordomo@halcyon.com

    ...that contains these two lines in the *body* -- not the subject, but
    the body -- of the message:

        	unsubscribe halcyon.announce 
	        end

    If you want to reSUBSCRIBE, or someone else does, send a mail message
    to:

        	majordomo@halcyon.com

    ...that contains these two lines in the body of the message:

        	subscribe halcyon-announce
	        end


    If you have questions about the list, send them to:

        	support@halcyon.com


(6-Jun-95/nwnhtham/MJT)
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