[Last updated on: Wed Jun 17 17:47:09 1998] This is alt.music.moxy-fruvous, where fans of the Toronto-based band moxy fruvous discuss the band, the shows, each other, and whatever else they feel like. alt.music.moxy-fruvous is actually a newsgroup. If you have the ability to read it and post to it as a newsgroup, you should probably be doing so. This here is a mailing list gateway to the newsgroup, for people with flaky news access or no access at all. Every post that is made to the newsgroup will also be distributed to this mailing list. You can also submit your own postings via email by sending them to ammf@fruvous.com. Anything you send to that address will be posted on the newsgroup and distributed to the mailing list. This mailing list aspect of this mail-to-news gateway is handled by list processing software known as majordomo. To talk to the majordomo handling this list, send email to ammf-request@fruvous.com. Simple commands you can send it are "subscribe" to subscribe yourself to the gateway list, "unsubscribe" to remove yourself from the list, and "help" to get complete instructions on all the other commands. If you're having trouble with majordomo, or have general questions about the list, and want to contact a human about it, send email to owner-ammf@fruvous.com. Don't send technical questions about the mailing list to ammf@fruvous.com! If you do, they will be posted to the newsgroup, most of whose readers are not even on the gateway list. Even though this is a mailing list, it is no more "complete" than reading alt.music.moxy-fruvous as a newsgroup. There is no "home" for a.m.m-f, and this gateway gets its articles from a news server just like you might read from. As with any news server, some articles may arrive out of order, and others may be lost. As a subscriber to the newsgroup, you don't get any more of a guarantee of completeness than those people reading a.m.m-f through a newsreader. Also, currently the gateway is set up to check the news server twice an hour and send out all the articles that have arrived since the last time it checked. So in addition to any delay caused by news propogation, being on the list could add up to an addition 30 minutes of delay before articles reach you. As with any newsgroup, if you're not familiar with it, it is recommended that you read some of the discussion traffic before you start posting. This takes a little bit more time on a mailing list than on a newsgroup, since you don't have access to postings that went through before you subscribed to the list. If you're impatient and want to see what people have been discussing recently, check out the news archive at DejaNews, http://www.dejanews.com/ The news server, mail->news gateway, and news->mail gateway for this list are located at The Left Bank Operation / Cohesive Network Systems, New England Division (http://www.leftbank.com/). The mailing list and list processor are at SMOE (http://www.smoe.org/). Thanks to both organizations for donating use of their resources at no charge. -- Cos (Ofer Inbar) -- cos@polyamory.org cos@leftbank.com -- WBRS (100.1 FM) -- info@wbrs.org http://www.wbrs.org/ "I am the whore of musical Babylon! Put that in your .sig and smoke it." -- Colleen Campbell