Get archived SS-L messages
Messages sent to SS-L get distributed to all current
list members. They also get stored in "archive"
files, each of which
contains a month's messages. Available archives include the
current month-to-date, and each of the previous 11 months.
Archives are useful in several ways:
- If your email service is interrupted for a week, you can catch up on last week's messages by requesting the relevant month's archive.
- If you are new to the list, you can request 12 months' worth
of archives, and mine them for the gems that are in them. This is hard work but it pays off well.
- If you take a vacation from the list, when you come back you can request an archive file and catch up on what you've missed.
One thing to bear in mind is that a month's worth of traffic
is a sizable message -- on the order of a megabyte.. If you have a very slow connection
to the Internet, or some kind of system limit that limits
the size of message you can receive, you may have problems
when you request an archive. For many people, though,
archives arrive with no problem -- just a long wait to download it.
To request the archives for, say, June of 1997,
you would send an email message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU
containing:
GET SS-L LOG9706
If you want a different month, substitute that year and month
into the LOG9706 above. If you want multiple months, you
can send multiple GET requests in your email, each on a
separate line.
You will receive a confirmation message from the "listserv" telling
you that the archive(s) requested will be delivered as a
separate file. And
you will receive each requested month's archive file
as a separate email message.
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