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- To: mathgroup at yoda.physics.unc.edu
- Subject: the mailing list
- From: Steve Christensen <stevec at yoda.physics.unc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Sep 91 22:57:32 CDT
It appears that the Mathematica mailing list is now working again and I am getting lots of new mail. Here are some rules and suggestions for list use: 1) mail should be sent only to the following address: mathgroup at yoda.physics.unc.edu or stevec at yoda.physics.unc.edu If you see some other mathgroup address in the mail you get, DO NOT USE IT. If you hit and "r" or and "R" to reply to a message, look at the address to make sure that unc.edu address is one of the above. 2) When you get a message, the original author's email address appears in your message list, but when you read the message you will not see that address, you will see From: stevec at yoda.physics.unc.edu and To: mathgroup at yoda.physics.unc.edu. When you reply using the "r" command you will send only to the originator of the message. If you hit "R" you should be sending to the originator and to the mathgroup address above. 3) the ftp archive is still in Illinois at the ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu address, but now in the directory UNIX/Symbolic/Mathematica. I have not had the time to get it running on yoda yet. 4) When you send a message to the mailing list, I will be reading it first. Some previous messages have occasionally had some negative personal stuff aimed at others. I will generally send messages like that back to the author and suggest they send it directly or reconsider their "flames". 5) Bugs should also be reported to bugs at wri.com. General pricing and other such information should can be obtained from info at wri.com. Some mailings to the list contain problems that a user is having that can easily be fixed if the manual is read. I will generally not be shipping those out to the mailing list. 6) I will be "on the road" quite a bit doing consulting work this fall. There will be times when messages may not go out for a week. Please be patient when this happens. 7) If you are developing some interesting Mathematica application, let us know about it. 8) It is common practice for list users to collect together the useful answers they get and summarize them back to the list. Please do this when you can. 9) Please put your name and email address at the end of your messages. Thanks for your patience waiting for the list to start up again. I hope no gigantic mail problems arise. My thanks to the systems administrators here at UNC who spent many hours trying to track down problems. Constructive comments are welcome. Steve Christensen