LISTSERV commands are all sent in the BODY (not the subject) of e-mail messages to LISTSERV@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM. NOTE: Do NOT reply to this message with LISTSERV commands; they will go to the wrong place and will not be executed. Please create a new message addressed to LISTSERV@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM to send commands.

To subscribe to the list:          SUBSCRIBE WINNT-L
                                   (may be abbreviated to
                                    SUB WINNT-L)

To leave the list:                 SIGNOFF WINNT-L
                                   (or UNSUB WINNT-L)

To change your address:            (see below)

To set the list to digest mode:    SET WINNT-L DIGEST

To set the list to index mode:     SET WINNT-L INDEX

To set the list to individual
postings mode:                     SET WINNT-L NODIGEST
                                or SET WINNT-L NOINDEX

To turn mail off for a while
(e.g., vacation, business trip):   SET WINNT-L NOMAIL

To turn mail back on:              SET WINNT-L MAIL

To receive copies of your own
posts:                             SET WINNT-L REPRO NOACK

To get only a short acknowledgement
message for your posts (default):  SET WINNT-L ACK NOREPRO

To get a reference card of
LISTSERV commands:                 INFO REFCARD

To get an index of available
list archive files:                INDEX WINNT-L

To order archive files:
   For monthly archives:           GET WINNT-L LOGyymm
   For weekly archives:            GET WINNT-L LOGyymmw
(where yy= year, mm= month, and w= week.  "w" can be A-E.)
Changing your address

LISTSERV 1.8d introduces a new CHANGE command which can be used to change your subscribed address as long as you have access to both the old and new addresses. Simply send mail to LISTSERV@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM from the with the following command in the body (not the subject) of the message:

CHANGE WINNT-L your_new_address

for instance,

CHANGE WINNT-L joe.doakes@example.com

LISTSERV will then send a command confirmation request to the . You send the "OK" to confirm the command from the new address and LISTSERV executes the change.

If you do not have access to the old mail account, please contact the list owner at WINNT-L-REQUEST@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM with both your old and new addresses and request that a change be made. The CHANGE command is really intended for people who know in advance that a change is going to be made and who may temporarily have access to both the new and old accounts (or who can at least send mail with a From: address pointing back to the old account).

People who go off on holiday and set up a "vacation" message for their mail should do one of two things with mailing lists:

* set the list to DIGEST or INDEX mode; or

* set the list to NOMAIL

This is because most vacation programs are brain-damaged and do not understand that mail from a mailing list does not need to be responded to. When I start receiving multiple "I'm on vacation" messages from users, those users get deleted. (However, if you've set yourself to DIGEST or INDEX before leaving, I'm more lenient.) Once again it is not my responsibility to deal with your company's, provider's, or university's brain-damaged vacation program. A well-behaved vacation program should send only one message per day per correspondent, but few do. A well-behaved vacation program should send the message back to the RFC821 MAIL FROM: address rather than back to the RFC822 "From:" address. A well-behaved vacation program should be configurable so that it does not respond to mailing lists or other "bulk" mailers. And so forth. Actually the -behaved vacation program is the one that is never used, in my honest opinion.