Greetings and welcome to DIATOM-L

My name is P. Roger Sweets, Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Indianapolis.
I am the 'owner' of the DIATOM-L list.

This discussion list is managed by the LISTSERV program.  
I first set up this list at Indiana University, and it is still located there.

The program will send you its version of things to remember, and this is mine.

First of all, probably the easiest thing to remember as far as managing your
subscription is this URL:

http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/diatom-l.html

this is an interactive Web interface for managing your account, including signing off
and setting your subscription to NOMAIL when you go away.  Very useful.

In fact, you can always search for such sites for any LISTSERV discusssion at:
http://www.lsoft.com/catalist.html


In truth, that is all you need to know, along with the cardinal rule:
THERE ARE TWO EMAIL ADDRESSES OF NOTE:

DIATOM-L@listserv.indiana.edu 

This address allows you to send a message to, well, frankly, basically everybody who
does research on diatoms.
Feel free to send such messages for valid uses.
Suggested uses:  
   
      
          - as a 'forum' for topic discussion
          - meeting announcements
          - job openings
          - grant announcements
          - listings of recent publications
          - situations where you wish to contact individuals for further
               private discussions:
                a general question about a taxa or location
                or a call for samples of a taxon, etc.

It is important to remember that ONLY MESSAGES YOU WANT TO GO TO THE ENTIRE
LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS BE SENT TO THE DIATOM-L ADDRESS.  
Not communications with me, or to find information about LISTSERV.  

This can be tricky as you can make the mistake of sending a private 'REPLY' to 
hundreds of diatomists, when you excitedly hit the reply button to a message
from a colleague sent over the list.

We are a very nice group, but please be courteous and careful.

This is a forum for scientific discussion and information.  We love a good argument,
but keep it on an intellectual level.

The members have broad latitude to post information about products they think are of
general interest, if you are uncertain, please write me first.

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The other e-mail address of note is the listserv address where you can send commands
to the program to change your subscription options:

LISTSERV@listserv.indiana.edu 

As I said, you will find it more useful I think to use the Web archive, but if you like
the older methods a full list of commands is below.

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You may find my diatom web page a useful site:
http://www.indiana.edu/~diatom/branch.html


Finally, you may contact me anytime with questions:


P. Roger Sweets
Assistant Professor
University of Indianapolis
Biology Department
Indianapolis, IN 46227

Phone: 317-788-3406
FAX:   317-788-3569

email: rsweets@uindy.edu


Welcome to DIATOM-L


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COMMAND SUMMARY

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TO SEND MAIL TO THE SUBSCRIBED DIATOM COMMUNITY

Send your message to the listname address.

DIATOM-L@listserv.indiana.edu     

THIS IS THE ONLY TIME YOU SEND MAIL TO THAT ADDRESS.

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TYPICAL COMMANDS YOU MAY SEND TO THE LISTSERVER:

To issue commands simply make them the first line of a mail message sent to the
LISTSERVER address (LISTSERV) NOT the listname itself.  The LISTSERV address is:

LISTSERV@listserv.indiana.edu 

               +++Subscribing and unsubscribing+++

SUBSCRIBE DIATOM-L   your_first_name your_last_name

Example: SUBSCRIBE DIATOM-L Roger Sweets

UNSUBSCRIBE DIATOM-L

               +++Altering the way you receive your mail+++

SET DIATOM-L DIGEST
This stores messages in a digest, and mails them to the subscriber when the
digest exceeds a certain number of lines, or after a given time period. Useful
if you don't want your mailbox filled with messages!  Send the command 
SET DIATOM-L NODIGEST to toggle it off

SET DIATOM-L NoMail
No messages will be sent until status changed.

SET DIATOM-L MAIL
Will resume mail after a postpone command, and change digest to
normal mail.

QUERY DIATOM-L
Query your subscription options

REVIEW DIATOM-L By Name
Get a list of current subscribers sorted by name

               +++To get general LISTSERV information+++

There are many other commands available to learn more, send these commands
to any listserv address


INFO                                         gets a list of topics
INFO topic                                   gets info on a topic

you should try INFO PR or INFO GENINTRO to start
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