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digest 1996-03-20 #001



11:28 PM 3/19/96 -0800
From: "Society for Literature & Science" 

Daily SLS Email Digest
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Date: 19 Mar 1996 07:45:09 -0800
From: "Frank E. Durham" 
Subject: RE: CLEARANCE: SLS abstract books
Dear lit/sci listees,
A brief apology.
First,  I just hit the "send" instead of the
"delete" key, as I started this
message.  That's one way to abuse the list.
Second, my stupid response "I'm not Lance" was not all that
stupid, since I
have copies of the 1994 (New Orleans) SLS abstract books and had just
told
Carol Colatrella that privately.  When her message about abstract books
appeared a few minutes later, I thought that she had inadvertently sent
me a
message intended for Lance.
There really is a structural problem in listserv, which could be handled
by
providing the option to reply either to the whole list or to the
sender.
Best wishes to all of you.
Frank Durham (Tulane Physics)
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Date: 19 Mar 1996 07:49:03 -0800
From: "Frank E. Durham" 
Subject: RE: CLEARANCE: SLS abstract books
At 07:31 PM 3/18/96 -0500, Andre wrote:
>
>
>Dear Frank,
>
>I'm not Carol or Lance.
>
>Andrew
>
>Apparently all of these messages and replies are going to everyone
on
>litsci-l!  I guess what this means is that if you want to reply
>privately (if only to spare the rest of us from sorting through 
the
>resulting messages), you need to avoid hitting the "r"
option (or however
>your mail program handles these things), and instead note the
address
>you want to send to and send a separate, non-reply message to that
person.
>
>There may be some more convenient way to reply, perhaps if you can
edit the
>to: address of the respondent or something.
>
>If you need to include the message, try saving the file (or hit the
"r"
>key, include the original message ("~m" in unix mail
program),
>and save the message as a file (i think ~s or ~w, but check your
manual
>or man page first) to get a file with the ">" or other
indicator of
>original message in it), then edit the file separately (to strip
out
>headers) then mail as a separate message (in unix mailer, type
>"mail user@somewhere.edu" and then type "~r
filename.of.message" to
>include that file, and "~v" to edit (maybe there are
different
>tilde escapes for editors other than vi, which is admittedly
primitive).)
>
>Sorry to bother you with all this, especially the arcana regarding
my
>mail system, but it may help some avoid sending these messages in
the future
>& might be worth adding to an FAQ or (better) the introductory
mailing
>file.
>
>
>>
>>Dear Carol,
>>
>>Oops!  I'm Frank, not Lance.
>>
>>__________
>>At 12:51 PM 3/18/96 +0000, you wrote:
>>
>>>Lance,
>>>  I only have multiple copies of 1993 and 1995 abstracts,
but I'm charging
>>>$5 each volume to cover the mailing cost basically. 
Otherwise, my office
>>>will be choked with cartons.  Abstracts for 1992 (Atlanta)
and 1994 (New
>>>Orleans) sold out shortly after the conferences.
>>>  So if you want 93 and 94, send a check for $10.
>>>  Thanks for your interest.
>>>Carol
>>>
>>
>
>>