NOTE: This message was supposed to be sent on last Friday, but was delayed due to the technical problems with our mail gateway. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello. First, let me apologize for the recent misbehavior of our mail forum server (messages without subject), which was caused by a broken mail gateway on one of forum's subscriber's mail servers, which was corrupting the messages. They fixed the problem, and hopefully it will not happen again. Thank you for your patience in dealing with this situation. Some clarification on posting messages to the forum: When you send a message, the server responds with the confirmation message, saying that "your message was delivered to the forum, etc.", but, by default, the copy of your message is NOT sent to you. In other words, when you send a message to the forum, you do not receive it back as a posting. However, you can change this default for yourself by executing following: Send a message: To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Message: set <forum name> <option> Options Include: ACK/NOACK ACK - A short confirmation message is sent to the sender of the posting (default) NOACK - No posting acknowledging is sent REPRO/NOREPRO REPRO - You receive a copy of your own postings NOREPRO - You do not receive a copy of your own postings For example, to receive both confirmation of the posting and the posting itself for your TechNet subscription, send a command: SET TECHNET REPRO To receive only your posting but not the posting acknowledgment: SET TECHNET NOACK SET TECHNET REPRO Also, there are few more commands you can use: QUERY - Command returns your subscriber options. To be executed correctly, the message must be sent from the address about which you are making a query. The syntax is: QUERY <forum name> Also, wildcards are supported. For example, sending a command QUERY * will return a list of all forums to which you are subscribed, with all subscriber options for these forums. THANKS - You can send this command to see if the server is alive, and the messages to and from the server are delivered normally. The server politely responds, "You're welcome!". Please note that the commands, addresses and forum names are not case sensitive, and you can send as many commands as you need in one message as long as they are on the separate lines. You can find these and other instructions on the IPC E-Mail Forums web page at http://jefry.ipc.org/forum.htm Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Regards, ******************************************* Dmitriy Sklyar Electronic Communications Manager IPC 2215 Sanders Road Northbrook, IL 60062-6135 voice : 847-509-9700 ext. 311 fax : 847-509-9798 e-mail : [log in to unmask] URL : http://www.ipc.org ******************************************* ################################################################ TechNet E-Mail Forum provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ################################################################ To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TechNet <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TechNet ################################################################ Please visit IPC web site (http://jefry.ipc.org/forum.htm) for additional information. For the technical support contact Dmitriy Sklyar at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.311 ################################################################