Listserv Information

Currently, the Listserv database is maintained by Frank Campbell but any member of the class can subscribe or unsubscribe himself through this Link.

Jim Walsh is the moderator of the list and maintain a NEWS and HISTORY page on AOL.

The messages are archived and can be easily retrieved (see below) by mail if you need them, contact Frank Campbell for assistance. One can also search the archive through this link. 

http://lazarus.west-point.org/wpl  Write  Frank Campbell  for the password if you don't have it

How To Retrieve Listserv information

List servers were in existence before the Web and were a principal means of communicating among various groups by using email. Commands are sent to the Listserver by Email. Messages are simple, merely include the command in the message. The subject line of your message means nothing to Majordomo, so it can be blank, but it is a good idea to put something in it to help you remember what you asked for. More info can be found at www.west-point.org/Info/listserv_guide.html.

Commands are sent to the listserv address majordomo@west-point.org. To get started merely include "help" (without the quotes) in a message. In this case, one get a return indicating that the address for initial help is listhelp@west-point.org.

When one sends the message

to the server, it will return an initial help message like

The message then lists the commands and gives examples. One of the commands is "index <listname> to get a list of files available, so if one sends (note the address majordomo@west-point.org )

a message comes back with list of files available like the following (the message is longer than is shown in the picture):

One uses the "get" command to retrieve the files. So if one wanted to get all the messages sent to the server in December 1998 one would send the command

get usma1959 usma1959.9812

to request the file.