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- From: mathgroup-adm at yoda.ncsa.uiuc.edu
- Date: Mon, 22 May 89 14:12:50 -0500
- Apparently-to: mathgroup-out at yoda.ncsa.uiuc.edu
Mathematica Mailing List Modifications: First, to all mailing list members, my apologies. The mailing list broke down seriously and many messages not ment for wide distribution, especially requests to be added or removed from the list, were sent and got out of control. Further, many people were mailing to an address that got sent immediately to everyone on the list without a chance for me to filter it first. In addition, bug reports which I thought might be of interest turned out not to be. Finally, some mail machines between my Sun-4 and your machines got overwhelmed by the size of the mailing list (over 300 people and despite the number of people asking to be removed, there are more asking to be added). This caused many machines to stop somewhere in the middle of a mailing, go down and then come back up and start the mailings over again. This ment that messages were often sent to some people many times. After having to deal with irate mail list members and literally hundreds of messages of all kinds, I called in a consultant. He spent this weekend fixing the problems. He moved much of the responsibility for handling the mail to my machine so that mail can avoid going through the sick intermediate machines when possible. Now when anyone mails to the mailing list the mail will go to me first and will not go out to the whole list. This will avoid repeated messages and add and remove requests. This should reduce the junk mail you will get from the mailing list to almost zero if all goes well. The vote about bug reports was heavily against having them unless they are very significant bugs that could affect all users. In any case, I will try to label bug reports I do send out with the word BUG in the Subject heading. If you are not interested you can delete it immediately. However, so that those interested in bug reports are not left out, I will archive bug reports on the archive server under the directory Bugs. In a lot of cases, I can answer the question about the bug, so it is not necessary to sent it to the list. I have also been asked to provide a mechanism for Bitnet users to get the archives. Periodically, I will send a table of contents to the mailing list. If you are a user who wants to receive a file via email, send me a message and I will see to it. Otherwise, I still prefer that you use anonymous ftp when possible. ============================================================================= So, here are the new addresses: You may now mail to: mathgroup at yoda.ncsa.uiuc.edu or stevec at ncsa.uiuc.edu yoda is a Sun-4 with internet address: 128.174.222.70 Requests to be added or removed or other administrative things go to: mathgroup-request at yoda.ncsa.uiuc.edu. Bitnet users can mail to me at 14008 at ncsavmsa.bitnet ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The ftp server is ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu and has internet address: 128.174.20.50 The current contents are: /usr6/ftp/Symbolic/Mathematica (main directory) MathGroup_Mail_Archive (subdirectory) MathGroupMail1 (file) Packages (subdirectory) Cochlear_Model ShowTime.m fourier.sh Complex.m VecCalc.m mdefs.h (individual files) Sci.Math.Symbolic (subdirectory) Archive1 Archive2 Archive3 (files) Bugs (subdirectory) (empty right now) ============================================================================ If you have any problems sending to me, if you are getting duplicate or seriously unwanted messages or have any other problem, please email me at the mathgroup address above. This is the first message sent out under the new mechanism so I hope it works. I also hope that the problems are taken care of and that you get some use out of this list in the future. Please contribute to make it work. Thanks for your patience and sorry for the junk mail. [One final note. It is possible that there is still some junk left in the system. I would like to know if you get any mail dated before this message. I want to isolate the sick machines in the mail network.] Steve Christensen ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steven M. Christensen Senior Research Scientist (Theoretical Physics) National Center for Supercomputing Applications Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, Illinios 61801 USA Phone: (217) 244-0544 (with answering machine) Phone: (217) 244-0072 (main NCSA number for messages to a human being) FAX: (217) 244-2909 Email: stevec at ncsa.uiuc.edu (Internet) Email: 14008 at ncsavmsa.bitnet (Bitnet) MathGroup: mathgroup at yoda.ncsa.uiuc.edu Mathgroup-request: mathgroup-request at yoda.ncsa.uiuc.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------