Date   : Tue, 31 Mar 1987 12:17:18 EST
From   : "John S. Fisher" <FISHER%RPICICGE.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu>
Subject: Digest redistribution in Bitnet-land

As I'm sure those of you on Bitnet have figured out by now, digest
distribution to you is being handled by a list-server to cut down
on the network traffic through the Wisconsin gateway.  If you care,
it is an FREPC11-style LISTSERV machine.

At any rate, for most of you the list-server does not know your name,
so the mail you receive says 'To:   "(no name)"  <user@node>'.  You may
change that by sending the command

       SUBSCRIBE DIST-CPM  your real name
-or-   SUBSCRIBE DIST-MDM  your real name

(for the Info-CPM and Info-Modems lists, respectively) to LISTSERV@RPICICGE.
The command can be sent either as a RFC822 mail file or as an interactive
message.  (For VM systems, interactive messages can be sent with the TELL
command as in

      TELL LISTSERV AT RPICICGE SUBSCRIBE DIST-CPM John S. Fisher

Similar commands exist for MVS and JNET sites.  I don't know about the
others.)  Users with userids longer than eight characters (eg VAX) MUST
use the mail approach since interactive messages carry the userid
truncated to eight.

The list-server is a littly picky about names; "your real name" must
include at least two tokens.  Just first names or just last names
are rejected.


If you have any problems related to the list-server, please direct them
to me for fastest response.  (Carbon-copy to INFO-xxx-REQUEST is probably
a reasonable thing to do, also....)


And last:  DO NOT SEND ANY CORRESPONDENCE TO EITHER dist-cpm OR dist-mdm.
           Continue to use the INFO-xxx addresses in Arpanet.



Regards,
JSFisher        FISHER@RPICICGE