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How to control the mail you recieve from christia, and how to interact with the rest of the subscribers.
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* additional material
To participate in the discussion by sending mail to the entire list, address your mail to CHRISTIA@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU.
Sending commands (e.g. UNSUBSCRIBE) to the listserv processor can sometimes be a little trickier. Try using the following addresses: LISTSERV@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU or LISTSERV@ASUACAD.BITNET or LISTSERV@ASUACAD
If these fail, try contacting one of the kind people listed in Section I.6, or the list owner (I.7)
To signoff or unsubscribe to Christia, send mail to the listserv Processor (section I.1) containing the command UNSUB CHRISTIA on the first line.
To subscribe to Christia, send mail to the listserv Processor (section I.1) containing the command SUB CHRISTIA (your.first.name) (your.last.name) on the first line.
To receive an acknowledgement that your submission to Christia has been distributed, send the message SET CHRISTIA ACK to the listserv processor.
To stop receiving acknowledgements that your submission to Christia has been distributed, send the message SET CHRISTIA noACK to the listserv processor.
To receive a daily compilation of the posts on Christia in one single email, send the command SET CHRISTIA DIGEST to the listserv processor.
To stop receiving daily digests, send the command SET CHRISTIA NODIGEST to the listserv processor.
To recieve an index of each day's posts on Christia, send the command SET CHRISTIA INDEX to the listserv processor.
To stop recieving an index and resume regular mail, send the command SET CHRISTIA NOINDEX to the listserv processor.
To suspend reception of mail from the list (an alternative to signing off and then on again) send the message SET CHRISTIA NOMAIL to the listserv processor.
To resume reception of mail, send the message SET CHRISTIA MAIL to the listserv processor.
To have your own postings distributed to yourself as well as to the other listmembers, send the message SET CHRISTIA REPRO to the listserv processor.
All the posts sent to Christia are archived by the listserv processor. If you are interested in seeing what people have said on a given topic, you can submit a database search to the listserv processor (listserv@asuvm.inre.asu.edu) in the following format:
// job echo=no database search dd=rules //rules dd * search *** in christia index print all
Replace the *** with the word(s) in which you are interested.
It is possible to limit your search to a specific time period using the following modification:
// job echo=no database search dd=rules //rules dd * search *** in christia from day1-mon1-year1 to day2-mon2-year2 index print all
A library has been dedicated for the purpose of storing large documents which can be retrieved at the request of members.
To receive a list of the files available, send the command INDEX CHRISTIA to the listserv processor (Section I.1). Entries look like this:
** GEN01 RUFF ALL CHR V 69 1363
92/03/12 17:49:10 Genesis 1-11 as theodicy; Three views of
Genesis 1
GEN02 RUFF ALL CHR V 68 1106 92/03/12 17:49:16 Darwinism and
science
GEN03 RUFF ALL CHR V 68 971 92/03/12 17:49:24 Darwinism and Ch
ristianity **
To receive, for example, the article on Darwinism and Christianity, send the command GET GEN03 RUFF (syntax: GET fname ftype) to the listserv processor. (listserv@asuvm.inre.asu.edu)
Stephen Kingston has made a good portion of the Christia library available on the World Wide Web. It can be found at http://www.aber.ac.uk/~spk/christia/
Not only are the contents listed by subject and author, but there are links to other web sites of interest to Christians. (If you look hard enough, from this page you can find " the only known photograph of him <Stephen> in existence.")
The following people have indicated that they are willing to help people with technical problems that they are experiencing with Christia. Please feel free to contact one of them if you need assistance.
Mark Drake drake@asu.edu (listowner)
Tom Sathre sathre@den.mmc.com
Jonathan Wheeler jfw1@osfserv.rl.ac.uk
{if there is anyone else interested, please send me a note so
that I can add you to the list}
Mark Drake is the listowners of Christia. He can be reached at:
Mark Drake Internet: drake@asu.edu
There are several reasons why someone subscribed to Christia isn't receiving any mail from Christia.
1. Sometimes, the list processor gets busy, or is down because of maintenance at ASU. It will clear up fairly soon.
2. Sometimes, _your_ site has a computer down, or is having mail problems. This type of problem usually clears up soon as well.
3. Because of the volume of mail delivery problems associated with Christia, I have a policy of removing people's subscriptions if I get an error such as a "mailbox full" or a "user unknown" error. I set subscriptions to nomail if I get "unable to connect" error messages indicating that mail has been undelivered for more than 2 days.
If you are not receiving Christia mail, and are concerned about it, the first thing to do is send the command QUERY CHRISTIA to listserv@asuvm.inre.asu.edu. If the list processor says that you are not subscribed, it is probably because of #3 above. You need to resubscribe. If it says that you are nomail, then you need to set your subscription back to mail (Section I.3). If you are subscribed, and set to mail, then the problems is probably #1 or #2 above. If you need some help, contact Mark Drake at drake@asu.edu for assistance.