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What is the BBC Micro Mailing List?

What is the BBC Micro Mailing List Archive?

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What is the BBC Micro Mailing List?

The BBC Micro mailing list is a list is for discussion of all aspects of the BBC Microcomputer and related machines such as the Acorn Electron and BBC Master Series.

In the past there was a seperate mailing list called BeebEmul8 for discussion of all aspects of emulation

and emulators of the BBC Microcomputer and related machines such as the Acorn Electron and BBC Master Series. The BBCEmul8 mailing list has been integrated into the main BBC Micro mailing list. Questions and discussions relating to emulation and emulators of Acorn 8-bit machines are welcome on the BBC Micro mailing list.

The BBC Micro mailing list is hosted by James Fidell. This archive is wholly unofficial and James has no involvement with it.

At the time of writing the BBC Micro mailing list has over 300 members.

How do I subscribe?

To subscribe to the BBC Micro mailing list you should fill out the subscription request form at the official home of the list at http://lists.cloud9.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/bbc-micro. You will recieve an authorisation request via email where you will need to confirm your wish to subscribe, once you follow the instructions in this message you will be a fully fledged member of the list.

A digest of the BBC Micro mailing list is available if you do not wish to receive individual messages. To subscribe to receive the digest you should ensure the 'Digest' option is selected when you submit the subscription form.

One you have subscribed you may wish to review the archives here to find out if your question has already

been asked and answered and to generally get to know the general tone of the list.

How do I unsubscribe?

To unsubscribe from the BBC Micro mailing list fill out the unsubscription request form at the official home of the list at http://lists.cloud9.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/bbc-micro.

How do I post a message to the list?

Before you can post new messages to the BBC Micro mailing list you need to ensure that you subscribe.

Whether you are subscribed to receive individual emails or to receive digests, all new postings should be submitted to bbc-micro@lists.cloud9.co.uk. To respond to a post on the list you should send your reply to the same address, many email applications will by default try to reply privately to the original poster, you should take care to check if your email application does this.

When you respond to the list it may be tempting to send a carbon copy (CC) of the message to the original poster, please try not to do this as the original poster will always receive two copies of your message.

Emails sent to the BBC Micro mailing list should always be made in plain text and not base64, RTF or HTML as many modern email applications will do by default. Information on how to configure your email application to post plain text messages should be simple to find, either on the web

site of that application or via an internet search engine such as Google.

Posting attachments to the list is also frowned upon and should not be done. If you have additional files, documents or images that you wish to share with members or the list or which are important references to your message then you should try to upload them to a web site and provide a link in your message.

What is the BBC Micro Mailing List Archive?

The BBC Micro Mailing List Archive is intended to be as complete as possible archive of posts to the BBC Micro mailing list from the very beginning to the present day and beyond. A previous archive by Mark Cooke was lost when the host server was stolen. Messages have been recovered from various sources including bbc.nvg.org, James Fidells' MajorDomo mailing list server and from

our personal archives of posts to the list. The archive is manually updated during the first week of each month when all messages from the previous month are added. More frequent updates are made occasionally. This archive is wholly unofficial and has no connection to the BBC Micro mailing list or James Fidell other than to provide a useful web resource for both members of the

list and the general public. We are happy to answer any support enquiries relating to this archive and subscribing to and unsubscribing from the BBC Micro mailing list.

This archive and all related software was developed by Jon Ripley and J.G.Harston and is maintained by J.G.Harston.

Future Improvements

This mailing list archive is a work in progress and the structure, presentation and quality of the archive will improve as our custom mailing list searching and indexing software develops.

Presentation

The messages have been converted into web pages. This has allowed improved presentation and browser compatibility as well as better obscuring of email addresses from the visible content, and has allowed links between messages and between threads, and made the

searching better. All the messages are held in their original raw form in offline backups. To prevent floods of broken link error reports if a post links to an external site that has been moved the link is updated to point to the new address.

Mirrors

The official home page of the BBC Micro Mailing List Archive is http://mdfs.net/Archive/BBCMicro.

Copyright

As with any message posted to a mailing list or newsgroup, the copyright of a message remains with the author of the message. By posting to such a listing, the author gives permission for their work to be redistributed, as long as attribution to the author remains. In this case, the "From:" header line has to

correctly attribute the author. All correctly specified email addresses have been obscured to protect members against spam harvesting, this was introduced after discussion on the mailing list. This does mean that it may be difficult to distinguish between multiple members who share the same name.

It is the policy of the archive maintainers to deny without exception all requests to retrospectively alter or amend any messages which have been posted to the mailing list, other than minor editing to prevent broken link error reports from links to external sites.