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Crystallography Newsgroup Homepage

Using the Mailing List Gateway to Participate

Homepage located at http://www.unige.ch/crystal/stxnews/stx/welcome.htm

Participating in the newsgroup via email

General Email access has been created for the general crystallography newsgroup, sci.techniques.xtallography thanks to Alan Hewatt (hewat@ill.fr) at ILL, Grenoble, France (http://www.ill.fr/dif/) There may be a number of reasons you may like to use this newsgroup to E-mail link.


Mailing List Gateway: How to subscribe (no cost involved)

Send an email to the following address:

listserv@ill.fr

with the following message in the body text :-

SUB s.t.xtal_l Your_Name.

Confirmation of Subscription

You will then receive an email reply stating that you have successfully joined the newsgroup to mail gateway list and also receive a list of other commands you can use with the "mailing-list".

Remember to send any "listserv" commands to :-

listserv@ill.fr


Mailing List Gateway: Sending articles and messages

Just use your email program to send your message to:

s.t.xtal_l@ill.fr


Mailing List Gateway: Making it easy to send articles and messages

To make it easy to send articles and messages, try using the "alias" facility of your email program:- e.g.

alias     name            email address
xtal  Xtal-newsgroup  s.t.xtal_l@ill.fr
Then when you want to send an article or query, just email it to Xtal-newsgroup and your email software should handle the rest.

If your email program does not support this "alias" option :-


Mailing List Gateway: Continuing a Discussion

When participating in a newsgroup, you can continue the discussion by either "following-on" a response to the entire newsgroup, or sending a reply directly to the author via email. Below is more detailed information on how to accomplish this.


Mailing List Gateway: To Send A Message Only to the Author

Using your email program, note down the email address of the author and use the forward option in your email program to correspond with the original message author author.


Mailing List Gateway: "To "Follow-on" Your Comments to Everyone

Using your email program, highlight the message that you wish to continue the discussion on and reply to the message.


Mailing List Gateway: Unsubscribing Yourself From the Newsgroup

Send an email to the following address:

listserv@ill.fr

With the following message in the body text :-

SIG s.t.xtal_l.

Confirmation of Subscription

You will then receive an email reply stating that you have successfully unsubscribed(signed off) from the list.

Remember to send any "listserv" commands to :-

listserv@ill.fr


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