archives of mailing list traffic are available

Brian Smithson (brian)
Wed, 10 Jun 92 09:13:44 PDT

Archives of X*Press mailing list traffic are now available via an e-mail
server. Mailing list traffic will be put into standard "digest" format
whenever there is approximately 50KB accumulated. The digest format removes
much of the mail header information, and so resulting digests will be
approximately 30-35KB each.

To retrieve digests (or anything else in the archive), you send mail to
xpress-archive@csd.mot.com with one or more commands in the message body.
Included below is the help file for the server:

=== begin help file ===

Welcome to the X*PRESS archive server.

The server recognizes the following commands:

path <path> This lets the requestor override the address that would
normally be extracted from the header.

help This is equivalent to the command `send help'.

index This is equivalent to the command `send index'.

send <file> Send the specified file. Only one file per send command.

quit Nothing past this point is interpreted. This is provided so
that the if your signature contains a line that looks like
a server command, you can still use the server without
getting a bogus response.

A few notes:

- The index is an directory of titles. If you want to see the sizes and
modification dates of files, request the file "ls-lR".

- You can place commands in either the subject line or the body of your mail
message. Place only one command per line.

- The server considers a # as the start of a comment; everything from one to the
end of its line is ignored.

- If there are no requests in the message, the server responds as if the
message had a help request in it.

- Send commands that are rejected by the service program are returned to the
requestor in a separate message.

Send your server requests to xpress-archive@csd.mot.com.
Send questions or problems to xpress-archive-request@csd.mot.com.

=== end help file ===

-- 
-Brian Smithson
 Motorola Inc., Computer Group, Commercial Systems Division
 10700 N. De Anza Boulevard, Cupertino, CA 95014 USA, (408)366-4104
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