Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/05
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<<You can only retrieve one digest per message>>
I have retrieved more than one by having multiple lines in one message
>>> "Patrick G. Sobalvarro" <pgs@sobalvarro.org> 05/05 10:27 AM >>>
Boreham wrote:
>
> I think someone else recently asked how/where to view the LUG archives. I
> missed a reply. Could someone please repost?
Accessing the archives is a two-step process. They are stored in digest
format. First you must request from Majordomo a listing of the
available archives. You request the listing by sending mail to
majordomo@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
with the body (not the subject) of the message containing the single
line
index leica-users
Majordomo will send you a list with lines that look like this:
- -rw-rw-rw- 1 daemon majordom 59820 Mar 18 21:31 v02.n244
This is a line from a Unix directory listing. The first several parts
(until the number after "majordom") don't matter to you. The number
"59820" is the length in characters of the digest this line represents.
The comes the date: Mar 18 is March 18 of this year, and 21:31 is the
time this digest went out. On older entries (from before this year) the
listing will show the year. The last part, v02.n244, is the filename.
Once you identify the lines corresponding to the dates of the digests
you wish to retrieve, record the filename, which is the very last token
in the line -- v02.n244 in the case above. To fetch this digest, send a
message to
majordomo@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
with the body (not the subject) containing the single line
get leica-users v02.n244
and Majordomo should send you the digest.
You can only retrieve one digest per message, so if you want ten
digests, you have to send ten messages.
Also, Majordomo cannot understand HTML messages! You must send plain
text messages.
That's it -- good luck.
Patrick