Date: Tue, 14 Jul 92 09:38:15 From: Space Digest Reply-To: Space-request@isu.isunet.edu Subject: Space Digest V15 #001 To: Space Digest Readers Precedence: bulk Space Digest Tue, 14 Jul 92 Volume 15 : Issue 001 Today's Topics: Space Digest Returns! Welcome to the Space Digest!! Please send your messages to "space@isu.isunet.edu" (on Internet). If you are on Bitnet, you must use a gateway (e.g., "space%isu.isunet.edu@CUNYVM"). Please do **NOT** send (un)subscription requests to that address! Instead, send the message "Subscribe Space " to one of these addresses: listserv@uga (BITNET), RICE::BOYLE (SPAN/NSInet), UTADNX::UTSPAN::RICE::BOYLE (THENET), or space-REQUEST@isu.isunet.edu (Internet). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 14 Jul 92 09:30:00 EST From: digests@isu.isunet.edu Subject: Space Digest Returns! ==================== SPACE DIGEST RETURNS!!!!!! ==================== Space Digest, an electronic mailing list for all space-related topics, is back in action! After several weeks of changing moderators and fixing dozens of technical problems, everything is finally ready to go. ======================= WHAT IS SPACE DIGEST? ====================== Space Digest is a public forum for discussing all types of space-related topics. Email to the digest is collected during the day, and the condensed collection (sorted by Subject) is distributed at night. Three to four digests will be mailed on a typical day. Technically, Space Digest mirrors the Usenet newsgroup sci.space; all posts made to sci.space will appear in Space Digest, and vice versa. So if you have access to the sci.space newsgroup you do *not* need to subscribe to Space Digest. Space Digest is *UNMODERATED*. That means nothing and no one will be censored, so it's up to everybody to observe proper netiquette (e.g., read the Frequently-Asked-Questions list before posting a common question, and don't flood the list with lots of email). ======================== HOW DO I USE IT? ========================== Send all your subscription/unsubscription requests to: listserv@uga if you're on BITNET RICE::BOYLE if you're on SPAN (NSInet) UTADNX::UTSPAN::RICE::BOYLE if you're on THENET space-request@isu.isunet.edu if you're on Internet and do *not* have access to the sci.space newsgroup Whichever address you use, please format your request as follows (using your own name, of course): subscribe space Mark Maimone Send your contributions to the digest (which *everybody* on the list and in the newsgroup will have to read) to: space@isu.isunet.edu from Internet EAST::"space@isu.isunet.edu" from SPAN (NSInet) space%isu.isunet.edu@CUNYVM from BITNET ================== THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE!! ================== Although we are confident the new configuration will work eventually, we ask for your patience in the first few days/weeks of operation. There are likely to be literally dozens (if not hundreds) of bad addresses on the mailing list, and we will need time to find them all. If you should receive too many (or not enough) copies of the digest, please send a message to space-REQUEST@isu.isunet.edu. We will respond as soon as we are able. Finally, a big THANK YOU!! to the folks who helped us make the transition to our new system: former moderators Todd Masco and Ted Anderson, the systems people at Carnegie Mellon, and all the Digest readers who provided advice (and some code!) for the port. Space Digest is now being administered under the auspices of the International Space University, at their Executive Offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The folks there have donated the use of their hardware, and the time of several staff and volunteer workers, for this project. The principal maintainers at this time are Steve Abrams (steve@isu.isunet.edu) and Mark Maimone (mwm@cmu.edu), but please send all maintenance requests to the SPACE-REQUEST@ISU.ISUNET.EDU address. ======================= NOTES FOR OLD-TIMERS ====================== The most recent past issue was V14 #1087. We begin volume 15 with this announcement. The old addresses, space+@andrew.cmu.edu and space-request@andrew.cmu.edu, will continue to function for a while, but we ask that you please update your address lists to SPACE@ISU.ISUNET.EDU and SPACE-REQUEST@ISU.ISUNET.EDU. The Space Magazine is no longer available. Perhaps in the future someone will volunteer to moderate it, but for the moment no one is available. Some past volumes, and all future ones, will be available by anonymous-ftp on isu.isunet.edu (192.131.110.15), in directory /usr/anon/pub/space. If you don't have access to the FTP program, you can use an email-based FTP server. For information, send the message "help" to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com if your account is on Internet; on Bitnet, use bitftp@pucc. The listserv at UGA also provides some retrieval and searching facilities. Send the message "help" to listserv@uga.bitnet for more details (Space Digest is known as "space" on that listserv). ------------------------------ End of Space Digest Volume 15 : Issue 001 ------------------------------