Dear Fellow Medievalist: The following is an outgrowth of the handout of a paper I delivered in September 1993 in San Antonio at the annual conference of the Texas Medieval Association. The paper was intended as a "user friendly" introduction to e-mail and academic discussion groups for medievalists. Since then, some updates have been made for services and networks which were unavailable at the time. If you know of corrections, addenda, or updates which will add to or improve the quality of the information given here, please send them to me, and I will incorporate them into the document. Edwin Duncan May 13, 1994 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents 1. How to Subscribe to an Academic Network. 2. A List of Medieval Academic Discussion Groups. 3. A List of Related Academic Discussion Groups. 4. Other Academic Discussion Groups. 5. Other Helpful Addresses. a. The Oxford Text Archive. b. The Society for Early English & Old Norse Electronic Texts. c. The Library of Congress. d. On-Line Bookstore. e. The Chaucer On-Line Bibliography. f. The Dartmouth Dante Project. g. Seymour h. UnCover i. Wellcome Institute Library Database. 6. Uploading and Downloading. 7. Using FTP. 8. Listserver Commands. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1. HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO AN ACADEMIC DISCUSSION GROUP. If you have a computer account at your university, you can become a member of an academic network, or discussion group, free of charge simply by subscribing. To subscribe, do the following: 1) Log in to your account and get into MAIL. 2) Address a message to the LISTSERV account (given on the next pages) that handles the network you want to join. 3) Send a message that reads as follows: sub listname your name For example, if your name is Fenwick Furd and you want to join the medieval language and literature discussion group MEDTEXTL, you would address your message to listserv@uiucvmd.bitnet (if your university is on Bitnet) or to listserv@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu (if your university is on Internet). The message you send would read: sub medtextl fenwick furd Or, if your name is Floradora Sturdley and you want to join the medieval feminist discussion list MEDFEM-L, then you would send to listserv@uwavm.bitnet (or listserv@uwavm.u.washington.edu) this message: sub medfem-l floradora sturdley Remember to put nothing on the subject line. Anytime you send a one-line command, the subject line must be left blank or the command will not be accepted. If you have done everything correctly, within a day or so, sometimes within only a few minutes, you will receive a reply from the listserver informing you that your request has been accepted and that you are now a member of the network. This initial reply will usually also include instructions on how to access files and other information that the network makes available to its members. It will also explain how to unsubscribe and how to postpone or resume receiving mail sent to the network by other subscribers. With most networks, you will also receive in the first day or so a directory of other members as well as introductory information about the network, including its scope, its aims, and its protocol. You will also immediately begin to receive messages sent to the network by other members. Many of the networks are quite active. The daily volume of mail on all of them drops off during the summer and on holidays, but during the fall and spring semesters, some may handle as many as twenty to thirty messages a day, which, if you read them all word for word, may take over a half-hour to finish. This is fine if you have the time for it, but we all go through periods when we cannot afford to waste a minute, and in these times the best thing to do is to send a one-line command to the appropriate listserver to stop the messages from coming until further notice. The wording of the command varies from one network to another, but all can be stated on a single line, and the exact wording is usually provided in the introductory information you get when you join the network. (If it does not, the list of commands given as Listserv Commands at the end of this document may be successfully used.) Then, when the deadline has passed, or when you have returned from your trip out of town, you can just as easily resume receiving the network mail with a resume mail command. 2. MEDIEVAL ACADEMIC DISCUSSION GROUPS. Here is a listing of medieval academic discussion groups you may want to join along with the addresses of the listservers that carry them. Annotations for some of them appear in the paragraphs below the list. NETWORK: LISTSERVER ADDRESS: SUBJECT AREA: ANSAX-L listserv@wvnvm.bitnet Anglo-Saxon Studies listserv@wvnvm.wvnet.edu ARTHURNET listserver@morgan.ucs.mun.ca Arthurian Studies BMMR-L listserv@cc.brynmawr.edu Medieval Book Reviews CHAUCER listserv@uicvm.bitnet Chaucer and Medieval Lit. listserv@uicvm.uic.edu EARLYM-L listserv@aearn.bitnet Early Music listserv@aearn.edvz.univie.ac.at GERLINGL listserv@uiucvmd.bitnet Older Germanic Languages listserv@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu (to 1500) HEL-L listproc@ebbs.english.vt.edu History of the English Language INTERSCRIPTA listserver@morgan.ucs.mun.ca Directed Medieval Discussions MDVLPHIL listserv@lsuvm.bitnet Medieval Philosophy listserv@lsu.edu MEDEVLIT listserv@siucvmb.bitnet Medieval Literature listserv@siucvmb.siu.edu MEDFEM-L listserv@uwavm.bitnet Medieval Feminist Studies listserv@uwavm.u.washington.edu MEDGAY-L listserv@ksuvm.ksu.edu Medieval Gay Studies MEDGER listproc@csuohio.edu Medieval German Studies MEDIBER listserv@merle.acns.nwu.edu Medieval Iberian Studies MEDIEV-L listserv@ukanvm.bitnet Medieval History listserv@ukanvm.cc.ukans.edu MEDLITERACY-L listserv@uclink.berkeley.edu Medieval Literacy MEDTEXTL listserv@uiucvmd.bitnet Medieval Languages & Lit. listserv@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu OLDNORSENET listproc@hum.gu.se Old Norse Studies ANSAX-L is the discussion group for ANSAXNET, the Anglo- Saxon Network. It has over 600 members from fifteen or twenty different countries and, as one would expect from such a large membership, has a fairly high volume of mail. Discussions cover not only Old English language and literature, but also Anglo- Saxon archeology, history, philosophy, and the arts. As with other networks, one also runs across calls for papers, job listings, announcements of new journals, new computer services, and the like. ARTHURNET, a new network devoted to all subjects relating to King Arthur and the knights of the round table, has apparently replaced an older and less successful one called CAMELOT, an English network. Arthurnet is based in Canada, and the commands for setting options with the listserver are slightly different from most of those based in the U.S. The command for subscribing is the same, though. BMMR-L, the Bryn Mawr Medieval Review, is, as its name implies, devoted to the review of books on medieval topics. Members are not only automatically sent reviews of new books as they become available but may also retrieve older reviews from the archives. They may also contribute their own reviews to the network. CHAUCER, the discussion group for Chaucernet, is, like Ansaxnet, fairly active in terms of mail. It generally confines itself to Chaucer studies, although related fourteenth-century works such as Piers Plowman and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight also get discussed here. Last fall when I was teaching a Chaucer course, I found some of the pedagogical discussions on this network to be especially helpful. EARLYM-L, a discussion group for those interested in early music, is a relatively high-volume network with postings from musicians both inside and outside academe. GERLINGL, a discussion group for older Germanic language studies, is a relatively low-volume group, but some good information is presented on it from time to time. If one has interests in this area, then one may wish to subscribe to it in addition to a related higher volume group like Ansax-l. HEL-L, a new discussion group devoted to studies in the history of the English language, is primarily but not exclusively pedagogical. Initially it was quite busy, but at the present time postings are infrequent. MDVLPHIL, devoted to medieval philosophy, does not have many postings. MEDFEM-L is a fairly high-volume discussion group for medieval feminist studies. MEDEVLIT, established as a forum for medieval literature, is a low-volume network. It was originally devoted to Chaucer, but when the founder learned that an active Chaucer network was already in existence, he changed it to medieval lit. However, Medtextl already had that territory covered, too, and Medtextl is still the one almost all scholars in medieval lit prefer, although many belong to both groups. MEDGER is a new discussion group devoted to medieval German studies on all topics except linguistics. It has a relatively small membership and low volume of postings. MEDIBER is a new discussion group devoted to medieval Iberian literatures, languages, histories, and cultures. It is fairly active. Many of its postings are in Spanish. MEDTEXTL, the discussion group for medieval languages and literature, also has a large number of messages. In contrast to ANSAX-L and CHAUCER, it has more postings for continental languages, literature, and the arts, and perhaps for that reason has a rule that any postings or quotations in any language other than English include translations along with the originals. This can be a real help for, say, a Germanic scholar trying to follow a conversation quoting medieval Italian or for a Romanticist trying to decipher something from Old Norse. OLDNORSENET is a new discussion group devoted to Old Norse history, literature, and philology. Based in Sweden, its list- server commands are slightly different from most of those used in the U.S., although the command for subscribing is the same. It does not have a high volume of postings. 3. RELATED ACADEMIC DISCUSSION GROUPS. HUMANIST listserv@brownvm.bitnet Studies in the Humanities listserv@brownvm.brown.edu CELTIC-L listserv@irlearn.bitnet Celtic Studies listserv@irlearn.ucd.ie ESPORA-L listserv@ukanvm.bitnet Spanish and Portuguese listserv@ukanvm.cc.ukans.edu Historical Studies GAELIC-L listserv@irlearn.bitnet Gaelic Studies listserv@irlearn.ucd.ie FRANCEHS listserv@uwavm.bitnet French Historical Studies listserv@uwa.edu.au GRMNHIST listserv@uscvm.bitnet German Historical Studies listserv@usc.edu (from 800 a.d.) PHILOSOP listserv@yorkvm1.bitnet Studies in Philosophy listserv@vm1.yorku.ca FICINO listserv@utoronto.bitnet Renaissance Studies listserv@epas.utoronto.ca RENAIS-L listserv@ulkyvm.bitnet Renaissance History listserv@ulkyvm.louisville.edu REED-L listserv@utoronto.bitnet Records of Early English listserv@epas.utoronto.ca Drama & Related Topics SHAKSPER listserv@utoronto.bitnet Shakespeare Studies listserv@epas.utoronto.ca WELSH-L listserv@irlearn.bitnet Welsh Language & Studies listserv@irlearn.ucd.ie BMR-L listserv@cc.brynmawr.edu Medieval & Classical Book Reviews BYZANS-L listserv@mizzou1.missouri.edu Byzantine Studies MAPHIS listserv@harvarda.harvard.edu Map History Studies Of these related discussion groups, perhaps the one of most general interest would be the first one, Humanist. Devoted to studies in the humanities, Humanist is a little different from the others in that its editors screen the messages and then group them by topic before sending them out. Thus, if you belong to Humanist, you may not get any mail at all for a few days, and then go in and find ten or fifteen messages at once. So even though Humanist has over a thousand members, its volume is not as high as Ansax-l, Chaucer, or Medtextl, but because its postings are screened, the quality of the messages is generally high. I will give no additional explanation of the other groups listed here except to say that the last one, BMR-L, is the Bryn Mawr Medieval Review combined with the Bryn Mawr Classical Review. So if you are a classicist as well as a medievalist, you might prefer to subscribe to this network rather than just the Bryn Mawr Medieval Review. 4. OTHER ACADEMIC DISCUSSION GROUPS. Of course, the medieval and related discussion groups given above are not the only academic networks that exist. There are many others covering a host of subjects from Astronomy to Zoology, and if you have interests other than medieval, you may want to know what else is available. To obtain a listing of these other academic networks with brief descriptions and subscription information, send to listserv@kentvm.bitnet or to listserv@kentvm.kent.edu the following one-line commands: GET ACADLIST README GET ACADLIST FILE1 GET ACADLIST FILE2 GET ACADLIST FILE3 GET ACADLIST FILE4 GET ACADLIST FILE5 GET ACADLIST FILE6 GET ACADLIST FILE7 GET ACADLIST FILE8 Get ACADLIST README first since it contains general introductory information, then send for the others two or three at a time. You can stack up several one-line commands in a single posting, but because of the size of the acadlist files, the listserver at Kent will send you only about two of them at a time. General listings for each file are as follows: Acadlist File1 Anthropology to Education Acadlist File2 Geography to Library & Info. Sciences Acadlist File3 Linguistics to Political Science Acadlist File4 Psychology to Writing Acadlist File5 Biological Sciences Acadlist File6 Physical Sciences Acadlist File7 Business, Academia, News Acadlist File8 Computer Science, Computer Related Info. 5. OTHER HELPFUL ADDRESSES. a. The Oxford Text Archive. Besides e-mail and academic discussion groups, medievalists with computer accounts also have other services available to them. One of these is the ability to obtain free of charge--or for only a nominal fee--important research aids such as electronic texts. These electronic texts are usually complete literary works stored as computer files which may be sent to your computer and then downloaded by you onto your hard disk and into your word-processing software. Probably the largest repository of accessible electronic texts on medieval topics is the Oxford Text Archive (or OTA). From the OTA you may obtain for no charge almost any of the major English or continental literary classics simply by filling out a form and signing a statement in which you swear to use the text for scholarly purposes only and not for class texts or for commercial use. Once the OTA people receive your application, they will send you electronically up to five requested texts, which you can then download onto your hard disk into your own word-processing software. Of course, you may never need an electronic version of a text, but if you do, this service can be invaluable. A colleague of mine got several Old English poetic texts from the OTA, recorded his scansions above the lines one by one on his computer and thus created a metrical catalog of the Old English verse types for those poems, which he was then able to manipulate in various ways. Philologists can use electronic texts for word studies by using concordance programs on them or by using their own word-processing program's search commands, and so on. At present, the main drawback to the texts in the Oxford Text Archive is that they are frequently not the authoritative editions for the works in question. The Archive gathered its collection by accepting electronic texts indiscriminately from donors who had scanned the texts for a variety of reasons, and to avoid legal complications many of these donors deliberately chose texts whose copyrights had expired. For more information send to listserv@brownvm.bitnet or to listserv@brownvm.brown.edu the following message: get humanist filelist or, if that presents a problem, send an e-mail message requesting more information to archive@vax.oxford.ac.uk or, you may obtain these files by anonymous ftp from black.ox.ac.uk in the directory /ota (See no. 7 of this file for instructions on using ftp.) b. SEENET (The Society for Early English & Old Norse Electronic Texts). Another disseminator of electronic texts will be SEENET, located at the University of Virginia. Still in the process of formation, SEENET plans to provide authoritative texts at a discount to members and at a slightly higher rate to non-members. Annual dues for the society will be about $20, or at least that was the figure being batted around in discussions I heard at Kalamazoo in May, 1993. For more information, contact Prof. Hoyt Duggan by e-mail at hnd@virginia.edu (or) hnd@virginia.bitnet c. The Library of Congress. If you are doing research and need full bibliographic information for a work your library does not have, you most likely will be able to find what you need by searching the on- line catalog of the Library of Congress. To access the Library of Congress, you do not use your Mail function. Instead, you go through Telnet, which is a function similar to but separate from Mail. After logging into your account and typing in your password, send the following one-line command: telnet locis.loc.gov This should get you in without any trouble, provided you remember to use the service during working hours. For central time these are Monday-Friday 5:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m.; Saturday 7:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.; and Sunday 12:00-4:00 p.m. The commands for using the Library of Congress are not like those in your university library. The most useful ones are given below. Remember that if you ever get stuck, you can go back to the original menu by typing exit and hitting [enter]. TYPE: FOR: b clancy, tom author search b burden of proof title search b solar energy subject search (Your screen will then show one or more entries, or sets. To access the desired sets, follow directions at bottom of screen.) other commands: d 1 (or appropriate no.) display entry d full 1 (or approp.no.) display full format n (when in full format) advance to next record d brief 1 (or approp.no.) return to brief format b b6 return to last alphabetical index WORD OR PHRASE SEARCHING: find cats; f=bo find records with the word cat find cats and space; f=bo find records with both words find p cervantes and t ejemplares; f=bo (p=personal name, t=title, n=notes, se=series, s=subject, f=bo means find books) other commands: page np display next page of full or brief display page pp display previous page of full or brief display help help exit return to Library of Congress menu d. On-Line Bookstore. Book Stacks Unlimited is an on-line bookstore which carries over 650,000 titles. Once you have reached it, you may "browse" the shelves and/or search for books by author, title, or subject. After making your selections, you may make your order over the computer. Prices are similar to those found at bookstores in the mall. Some electronic texts are available. Accessing the bookstore is not difficult. When you are logged into your account but not in mail or anything else, type the following line and hit [Enter]: telnet books.com The first time you access Book Stacks, you will be asked to enter a password and to provide your mailing address. (When I tried it for the first time, I couldn't get it to accept the password I gave it, so I tried a second, which for some reason it accepted.) Once you are logged into the bookstore, just follow the directions on the screen. You do not have to place an order unless you want to. e. The Chaucer On-Line Bibliography. The Chaucer On-line Bibliography, provided by Mark Allen, is a database for publications on Chaucer studies for the year 1991. Entries are annotated and searches can be done by author, title, subject, or keyword. Although 1991 is the only year currently available, the long-term goal is to incorporate all entries going back to 1975 while updating new entries annually. To access the Chaucer On-Line Bibliography, log in to your account and without going into mail type the following and hit [Enter]: telnet utsaibm.utsa.edu This should get you into the University of Texas at San Antonio system. When requested to enter your application request, type LIBRARY and hit [Enter]. Then at the menu prompt type LOCAL and [Enter]; then at the next screen type CHAU and [Enter]. You will then be in the Chaucer Bibliography, where you can do your searching by following the directions given on the screen. To exit the bibliography, type STOP, and to exit from UTSA back to your account type QUIT or BYE. If for some reason you get caught up in the system and these commands don't work, you can also exit back to your account by hitting the Esc key and then typing xx. f. The Dartmouth Dante Project. The Dartmouth Dante Project is a database of Dante's Divine Comedy. It is designed to give scholars "easy access to full texts of important critical works, many of which are rare and difficult to obtain." To access the Dartmouth Dante Project, log in to your account and without going into mail type the following and hit [Enter]: telnet library.dartmouth.edu This will get you into the Dartmouth library. When you get the opening on-line catalog menu (e.g. "Welcome to the Dartmouth College Library, etc.) type CONNECT DANTE and hit [Enter]. Then when asked what type of system you are using, type VT100 (unless you know you are using a different kind) and then press [Enter] until the screen displays this: Enter search or option letter. From this point on, follow the directions given on the screen. To leave the Dante Project type q (for quit), and to leave the Dartmouth College Library, type BYE. g. Seymour. Seymour is a gopher service available on telnet. Gopher is similar to telnet in that it allows you easy access to information located worldwide. If your university is linked up to Gopher, you can use it to receive a wealth of information on a multitude of topics. A couple of these available on Seymour are given below. If you are logged in to your account but not in mail or anything else, you can access Seymour by typing this command and then hitting [Enter]: telnet seymour.md.gov When you are asked for terminal type, just hit [Enter]. You should then see a menu of choices. If you want to do something like find the weather forecast for any city in the U.S. or Canada, for example, arrow down to 7. Find a Fact and hit [Enter]; then wait for a moment while Gopher retrieves the directory. When it does, it will give you a new menu. Arrow down to 5. National Weather Service and hit [Enter]. You will then be asked to type the city of your choice. Do so, hit [Enter], and you will see the local weather conditions followed by the forecast for that city. To leave Gopher or to move around within it, just follow the directions at the bottom of the screen. Besides the weather, you can also get other information on Seymour. A couple of examples are given below. Remember that if you ever get seriously stuck in Seymour, you can escape back to your account by holding down the key and pressing ]. 1) Electronic Books. To access the Complete Works of Shakespeare, the King James Version of the Bible, the Koran, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the translated Canterbury Tales, and several other literary works, do the following. At the initial Seymour menu (i.e. the same one where you found 7. Find a Fact), select 10. Search the Internet. Then select 2. Blacksburg Electronic Village Gopher, then 1. Blacksburg Electronic Village Gopher, then 7. Books (donated by the Eris Project), then select the work of your choice. To move around quickly in these longer documents, consult Help (by typing h) for some useful commands. 2) Chronicle of Higher Education. Besides getting the current academic news, you can search the classifieds for the perfect job. At the initial Seymour menu, select 6. Find a Book or Article. Then select 11. The Chronicle of Higher Education. If you want to mail yourself (or someone else) a job notice, you can do so by pressing m when you reach the bottom of that notice. When the box appears on the screen, just type in your e-mail address and hit [enter], and Seymour will send you a copy of the notice. h. UnCover. UnCover, a service of CARL, the Colorado Association of Research Libraries, is an excellent method of locating journal articles written since 1987 (or 1988, depending on the journal) and for scanning the Tables of Contents of recent issues of journals you are interested in. Many libraries have UnCover in their on-line catalogs, and if yours does, then you can probably access it more easily that way. (Ordering copies of articles from UnCover is also cheaper through your library's version.) But if it doesn't, you can still do all your searching through the CARL service available on telnet. To access it directly from your account (but not from mail), type the following command and hit [Enter]: telnet pac.carl.org Then just follow the directions on the screen. Keep in mind that if you get lost or stuck, you can always escape back to your account by typing //exit. UnCover works much like library on- line catalogs do in that you locate publications by entering the subject, author, or title. Looking at Tables of Contents of journals involves entering the browse function, typing the name of the journal and then selecting the issue you want to scan. This UnCover feature can be quite useful in that you can see the titles of the most recent articles of your favorite journals without having to go to the current periodicals section of your library. UnCover doesn't have the article, though, just the title, author, and page numbers (enough for ordering it through interlibrary loan). i. Wellcome Institute Library Database. The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine has now made its library catalogue available via Telnet. It is a good source for locating works on medical topics, including those in medieval times. By using subject searches for plague and medieval England, for example, I came up with an abundance of biblio- graphical information. To access the Wellcome Database type the following and press [enter]: telnet wihm.ucl.ac.uk When you are prompted to logon, type a capital W and press [enter]. After that, just follow the directions. If you get stuck, you can exit back to your account by holding down the key and pressing ]. 6. UPLOADING AND DOWNLOADING. Because you have limited space in your computer account for storing documents and messages, you must eventually decide which you want to keep and which to delete. For those you want to keep, one useful option is to transfer them onto your hard disk and into your word-processing program. This kind of transfer is known as downloading. Uploading is the opposite; that is, it is the process of transferring a file from your hard disk into your computer account. Uploading is useful when you want to send someone something over e-mail that you have stored as a file in your word-processing program. By uploading the file, you save yourself the trouble of retyping it before you send it. Since different universities have different operating systems and software packages for downloading and uploading, I will not go into more detail than this. Do keep in mind, though, that these are useful functions and that at some point you will want to get someone to show you how to perform them. 7. USING FTP. As a member of an academic discussion group, you will occasionally read that you can get a file or document you want by using ftp. Ftp (File Transfer Protocol) is a function similar to (but separate from) Mail or Telnet in that it allows you to communicate with remote sites. Specifically, it is a way of locating and retrieving publically-available files stored somewhere for your use. Let's say, for example, that you've accessed the Library of Congress via Telnet and read in its introductory information that you can obtain the 30-page Library of Congress instruction booklet at ftp seq1.loc.gov in /pub/LC.Online Here's what you do. When you are logged into your account (but not in mail or telnet or anything else), type ftp and hit the enter key. If your university has ftp, you will get an ftp prompt which should look something like this: FTP> Now type seq1.loc.gov and hit enter. You will get a message asking for your name, but instead just type anonymous and hit enter. (Note: If you don't get a prompt asking for your name, type login or logon and hit enter. Then you should get a prompt asking for your name.) You will then get a message asking for your password, but instead type your e-mail name and address (e.g. e7e4dun@toe.towson.edu). You will now be in the root directory of seq1.loc.gov. You now want to get in the subdirectory called pub, so type cd pub and hit enter (cd means change directory). You will be told that you were successful. Now you want the sub-subdirectory called LC.Online, so you type cd LC.Online and hit enter. Once again you will be told you were successful. Now type dir or ls (for directory or list) and hit enter. You will see a list of the files stored in the LC.Online subdirectory. To obtain the one called quick-search.ascii, for example, type get quick-search.ascii and hit enter. You will be told that the transfer has taken place, which means that the file has successfully been sent to your account. Now you can type quit or bye and you will be returned to your station. Check your directory or filelist and you should see quick-search.ascii listed there. Follow a similar procedure for all file transfers via ftp. Remember that the ftp directories or subdirectories may be case-sensitive (i.e. you have to use capital letters where they do and lower-case letters where they do). Also, remember that you cannot read the files when you are in the subdirectories. Ftp only transfers files; it doesn't allow you to inspect them. You can do that once you have the file in your own account (and then if you find that it's not what you want, you can delete it). 8. LISTSERVER COMMANDS. The one-line listserver commands given below allow you to communicate with the listserver (which is a program, not a person), so that you can set the options you want your account to have with the network. Remember to send your commands to the network's listserver address (not its regular mailing address) and to put nothing on the subject line. NOTE: If you are trying to set your options with HEL-L, OLDNORSENET, MEDGER, ARTHURNET, or MEDIBER, use the list of commands given in section a below (even though Mediber gives its listserver name as listserv). If you are setting options for other networks, including ANSAXNET and most others, use the list of commands in section b. a. Commands for listservers that give their names as listproc or listserver (e.g. Hel-l, Arthurnet, and Oldnorsenet): SUB Listname Your Name (Subscribes you to a list, i.e. an (e.g. sub hel-l joe blow) academic discussion group) SIGNOFF Listname (Unsubscribes you from a list, or (e.g. signoff hel-l) academic discussion group) SET Listname (Gives you your current option (e.g. set hel-l) settings for that list) SET Listname Mail Ack (Sends you a copy of any message (e.g. set hel-l mail ack) you mail to the network) SET Listname Mail Noack (Posts your messages to the network (e.g. set hel-l mail noack) without notifying you) SET Listname Mail Postpone (Stops all network mail from coming (e.g. set hel-l mail postpone) to your account until further notice) SET Listname Mail Ack (Resets all network mail to come to (e.g. set hel-l mail ack) your account) SET Listname Conceal Yes (Hides your name from review, i.e., (e.g. set hel-l conceal yes) makes you an "unlisted" sub- scriber) SET Listname Conceal No (Unhides your name from review) (e.g. set hel-l conceal no) REVIEW Listname (Sends you a list of subscribers (e.g. review hel-l) to the network) [For other listproc commands send to listproc@ebbs.english.vt.edu the following command: HELP] b. Commands for all listservers that give their name as listserv--not listserver or listproc (with the exception of Mediber, which uses the commands in a. above): SUB Listname Your Name (Subscribes you to a list, i.e., an (e.g. sub ansax-l joe blow) academic discussion group) SIGNOFF Listname (Unsubscribes you from a list, or (e.g. signoff ansax-l) academic discussion group) SET Listname Ack (Listserver will notify you that it (e.g. set ansax-l ack) has broadcast a message you sent to the list) SET Listname Noack (Listserver will broadcast the (e.g. set ansax-l noack) message without notifying you) SET Listname Rep (Listserver will send you a copy of (e.g. set ansax-l rep) any message you send to the list) SET Listname Norep (Listserver will cease sending you (e.g. set ansax-l norep) copies of messages you send the list) SET Listname Conceal (Hides your name from review, (e.g. set ansax-l conceal) i.e., makes you an "unlisted" subscriber) SET Listname Noconceal (Unhides your name) (e.g. set ansax-l noconceal) SET Listname Nomail (Stops all network mail from coming (e.g. set ansax-l nomail) to your account until further notice) SET Listname Mail (Resets all network mail to come to (e.g. set ansax-l mail) your account) IND Listname (Sends you directory of network's (e.g. ind ansax-l) available archive files) HELP Listname (Sends you a list of commands) (e.g. help ansax-l) REVIEW listname (Sends you a list of subscribers (e.g. review ansax-l) to the network) GET (Retrieves specified file (e.g. get descrip oe-call) from filelist) For other listserver commands send to listserv@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu this message: get listserv refcard ----------------------------------------------------------------- Edwin Duncan, President Department of English Texas Medieval Association Towson State University e7e4dun@toe.towson.edu Towson, Maryland 21204 -----------------------------------------------------------------