======== Subject: [gmonthly] gmonthly welcome, and mailing list instructions From: Greg Newby <gbnewby@ils.unc.edu> To: "Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter" <gmonthly@listserv.unc.edu> Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 14:41:41 -0400 Gutnberg subscribers: You should have received my earlier message to "gweekly" about the mailing list changes. Below is a much more detailed information file about mailing lists. At the bottom of this message, you will find personalized unsubscribe instructions to help unsubscribe from gmonthly. Remember that you are now on both gweekly and gmonthly. You are welcome to stay subscribed to both, but most people will probably want to unsubscribe from one. Since every message to the list includes unsubscribe instructions, it's safe to wait for a little while to decide which you want to keep. Here is the mailinglist how-to document: -------- Project Gutenberg has five mailing lists. Here is information about how to subscribe, unsubscribe, get your list configuration settings, and retrieve back issues. These are the Project Gutenberg mailing lists. People interested in receiving regulary newsletters and other announcements about the Project Gutenberg etexts should subscribe to gweekly or gmonthly: "gweekly" = Weekly General Public Announcements, including the newsletter "gmonthly" = Monthly General Public Announcements, including the newsletter "gutvol-l" = General Private Announcements for active volunteers "gutvol-d" = Discussion among active volunteers "hhelpers" = Heroic Helpers: Work tasks for active volunteers (approval needed) The "hhelpers" list requires an invitation or approval to subscribe, the others are open for anyone to subscribe. In May 2001, Michael Hart requested to divide the old "gutnberg" list into two new lists: gmonthly (for monthly newsletters) gweekly (for weekly newsletters) Instead of "gutnberg", which has been inactivated, please subscribe to one of these two lists. Both receive the Project Gutenberg newsletter on a monthly basis, but "gweekly" also receives weekly updates, which help people to hear sooner about the latest books that were published by Project Gutenberg. Each list receives periodic announcements about Project Gutenberg, as well. Traffic is quite light on both. To subscribe: To SUBSCRIBE to any of the Project Gutenberg mailing lists, send an email message to "lyris@listserv.unc.edu" The subject line of the message will be ignored. The body of the message should contain text such as: subscribe gmonthly Your True Name Where "gmonthly" is the list to subscribe to, and "Your True Name" is replaced by your actual name. So if your name were Dudley P. Duck, your message might contain: subscribe gmonthly Dudley P. Duck You do not need to include your email address, because Lyris gets it from the header of your email message. Beware that the address must be "lyris@listserv.unc.edu" You can't address your message to an address such as "listserv" or "listprocessor" or "majordom". However, for backward compatibility, "listproc@lyris.unc.edu" still works, as does "lyris@lyris.unc.edu". To Unsubscribe: If you are trying to unsubscribe, please be aware that MANY different mailing lists relay the Newsletters from Project Gutenberg and Ask Dr. Internet, and that it is possible you do not receive our newsletters directly from us. In any case of that nature, you would have to deal with that mailing list directly. If you look through the email header information, you should be able to tell how you got it. But if you are on OUR lists, unsubscribing is easy. Send email to "lyris@listserv.unc.edu" with the text: unsubscribe gmonthly where "gmonthly" is replaced by the list you want to unsubscribe from. In addition, personalized unsubscribe information is appended to every message you get from all of the Project Gutenberg mailing lists. *** Archives and personal settings: The Lyris Web interface has an easy way to browse past mailing list contents, and change some personal settings. Visit http://lyris.unc.edu and select one of the Project Gutenberg lists. *** Trouble? If you are having trouble subscribing, unsubscribing or with anything else related to the mailing lists, please email "owner-gutenberg@listserv.unc.edu" to contact the lists' (human) administrator. If you would just like a little more information about Lyris features, you can find their help information at http://lyris.unc.edu/help Thanks for your interest in Project Gutenberg's mailing lists! If you would like more information about Project Gutenberg, including an easy search tool to find and read our etexts, visit the Official Web Pages at http://promo.net/pg
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