Chomsky Members:

As 1998 rapidly comes to a close, please receive both my thanks for being
a part of this forum and my sincerest wishes for a joyous holiday season
and a prosperous New Year!

There are many topics I hope to address in the coming days.

F. Leon

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"Auto Replies" and vacations
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It' vacation time for many!

Please set your Chomsky subscription to "NOMAIL" if you plan to invoke
your auto reply feature.  Letting people know that you are "out of the
office" or will not be responding to e-mail messages is great.  However,
when every message sent to you sends your "auto reply" message back to
the
list, that creates a problem.

Suggestion:

Before you invoke your e-mail "auto reply," set all your mailing list
subscriptions to "NOMAIL." This way you will receive all the proper
confirmations/replies before the auto reply starts.

* * This is a reminder of the various Listserv commands available to you.

All of the following commands *must* be sent to the LISTSERV address.

The LISTSERV address is:

<[log in to unmask]>


You may leave the list at anytime by sending a:

UNSUBSCRIBE Chomsky
or
SIGNOFF Chomsky

in the body of the message.

Example:

TO:             [log in to unmask]
SUBJECT:
-------------  Message Text --------------
UNSUBSCRIBE Chomsky


You *must* UNSUBSCRIBE from the same address you subscribed with.


No Mail
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To TEMPORARILY stop incoming mail for Chomsky you should issue the NOMAIL
command.

NOMAIL will TEMPORARILY STOP your Chomsky mail until YOU start it
again.  The command syntax is:


SET Chomsky NOMAIL

Example:

TO:             [log in to unmask]
SUBJECT:
-------------  Message Text --------------
SET Chomsky NOMAIL


Use the NOMAIL command if you are going to be away for a few days and do
not want to come back to 500 pieces of Chomsky mail.  This is a great
command because you can still send information/postings to the list
although you will not receive any posts. NOMAIL your mail as often as you
like.

When you are ready to start receiving Chomsky mail again, issue the
following command:

SET Chomsky MAIL

This command will start your mail again.

Example:

TO:             [log in to unmask]
SUBJECT:
-------------  Message Text --------------
SET Chomsky MAIL


A daily DIGEST is available by issuing the following command:

SET Chomsky DIGEST

You will receive all the individual postings in one e-mail message.

You can then simply scan the table of contents and decide if there is
anything there of interest to you.  If there is, you can check it out. If
not . . . delete the digest.  You are informed and you have one less
e-mail message

Example:

TO:             [log in to unmask]
SUBJECT:
-------------  Message Text --------------
SET Chomsky DIGEST



To subscribe to Chomsky do the following:

To subscribe:

in the body of the message:

SUBSCRIBE Chomsky "YOUR FULL  NAME"  (without the quotation marks)


Example:

TO:             [log in to unmask]
SUBJECT:
-------------  Message Text --------------
SUBSCRIBE Chomsky  Frances Neely


To get a listing of available commands and topics, send the request
"help me" (without the quotation marks).

A 38 page LISTSERV User's Guide is available and can be viewed online
or retrieved from their FTP server in a variety of word processing
formats.

You may need to scroll down the page to find it.

<http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/userindex.html>


You can also issue list commands (subscribe and unsubscribe) from the
archives located at:

<http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/Chomsky.html>


If you have questions, please feel free to drop me a note.


Enjoy!


F. Leon Wilson
Chomsky List Owner