University of Calgary
Rob Kremer
Mail List: Subscribing

CPSC 433: Artifical Intelligence
Fall 2006
Department of Computer Science
Computer
Science

 
Mail List Server: seng433
Students MUST subscribe to the list server. Important information will be broadcaste thought the list server. Students are also encouraged to use the server to comment on the course and ask questions of the instructor through this channel. Please try to ensure that questions or comments might be of interest to other students (most questions are!). The instructor will monitor the list server and answer questions on the server. 
Subscribing 
to the list 
To subscribe to the seng433 list, send a message to sympa@cpsc.ucalgary.ca with the following line in the body (or the subject line): 
    subscribe seng433 
After this you should recieve an email  message authenticating your subscription, then an email confirmation, and then you will start recieving messages through the list server. 
Posting 
messages
 
To post messages to the list server, just send email to seng433
Other requests 
of the server
You can also get more information about how to send requests to the server by sending as message to sympa@cpsc.ucalgary.ca with "help" in the body. If you do, you will get this information: 
              
SYMPA -- Systeme de Multi-Postage Automatique
                       (Automatic Mailing System)

                                User's Guide


SYMPA is an electronic mailing-list manager that automates list management
functions such as subscriptions, moderation, and archive management.

All commands must be sent to the electronic address sympa@cpsc.ucalgary.ca

You can put multiple commands in a message. These commands must appear in the
message body and each line must contain only one command. The message body
is ignored if the Content-Type is different from text/plain but even with
crasy mailer using multipart and text/html for any message, commands in the
subject are recognized.

Available commands are:

 HELp                        * This help file
 INFO                        * Information about a list
 LISts                       * Directory of lists managed on this node
 REView <list>               * Displays the subscribers to <list>
 WHICH                       * Displays which lists you are subscribed to
 SUBscribe <list> <GECOS>    * To subscribe or to confirm a subscription to
                               <list>, <GECOS> is an optional information
                               about subscriber.

 UNSubscribe <list> <EMAIL>  * To quit <list>. <EMAIL> is an optional 
                               email address, usefull if different from
                               your "From:" address.
 UNSubscribe * <EMAIL>       * To quit all lists.

 SET <list|*> NOMAIL         * To suspend the message reception for <list>
 SET <list|*> DIGEST         * Message reception in compilation mode
 SET <list|*> SUMMARY        * Receiving the message index only
 SET <list|*> NOTICE         * Receiving message subject only

 SET <list|*> MAIL           * <list> reception in normal mode
 SET <list|*> CONCEAL        * To become unlisted (hidden subscriber address)
 SET <list|*> NOCONCEAL      * Subscriber address visible via REView


 INDex <list>                * <list> archive file list
 GET <list> <file>           * To get <file> of <list> archive
 LAST <list>                 * Used to received the last message from <list>
 INVITE <list> <email>       * Invite <email> for subscribtion in <list>
 CONFIRM <key>
* Confirmation for sending a message (depending on the list's configuration)
 QUIT                        * Indicates the end of the commands (to ignore a signature)

UofC
CPSC 433: Artificial Intelligence
Department of Computer Science

Last updated 2006-09-07 15:26
Rob Kremer