THIS INFORMATION IS NO MORE VALID: GARBO INFO PRIVATE MAILING LIST HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/infolist.txt Update Fri 1-May-98 20:33 This information is above all directed to long-standing contributing users of garbo.uwasa.fi, preferably with a good uploading record, or some other background of mutually useful communication with Garbo moderators. If you feel you don't fall in this category (please do not be offended, most of our welcome users do not qualify) please utilize the Usenet newsgroups news:comp.archives.msdos.announce and news:comp.archives.ms-windows.announce to see the Garbo announcements. If you are interested in having your email address added to the Garbo infolist upload accouncement, download statistics, etc news list you are welcome to email me an "application". Your application must include the following line YourFirstName YourLastName = youruserid@machine.domain.country eg mine would be Timo Salmi = ts@majakka.uwasa.fi Be very careful to get this information right. It is absolutely essential. Unless we know each other well from earlier contacts on the net, you should also clearly state your status, affiliation, and reasons for wanting to be on this list. E.g. I would state Professor of Accounting and Business Finance Faculty of Accounting and Industrial Management University of Vaasa, Finland I want to help in propagation of shareware and PD MS-DOS programs and in order to do that I need information of the new uploads to your anonymous ftp archives. I would get selected files from your list, and put them up for general download on my system. (Then eg some information about my computer usage background, perhaps on running a BBS, etc). Note that not quite all our new files are announced on Garbo infolist. Thus you might also be interested in occasionally looking at the raw monthly list ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/_files.in at your own pace. Some users are worried about an influx of postings that being on mailing lists like Garbo's infolist announcement list might cause. There is a solution to this dilemma for those who can obtain a second userid. Acquire an alternative user account, and use that address to receive the information from the various mailing lists. That way a potential influx of material does not interfere with one's normal email. If you are an advanced user, you might also consider using automatic filters to sort your email. Try "man filter" if you are reading your email on a Unix host. I use filtering extensively myself to sort my incoming email. All the best, Timo .................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi Co-moderator of news:comp.archives.msdos.announce Moderating at ftp:// & http://garbo.uwasa.fi/ archives 193.166.120.5 Department of Accounting and Business Finance ; University of Vaasa mailto:ts@uwasa.fi ; FIN-65101, Finland Spam foiling in effect. My email filter autoresponder will return a required email password to users not yet in the privileges database.