o PING o How the SunFlash and FlashBack distribution works o US prices in SunFlash articles o The World Wide Web (www) version of SunFlash on draco.nova.edu o The sponsor list o SunFlash and FlashBack articles and subscriptions o PING ------------------------------------------------------------- Please send email to flash@flashback.com if you get this message. Just a reply. No message is needed. Just a few seconds of your time. It's really important to me to guage how wide is the circulation of my journals. Please include the words PING in the subject line (or body). I will run this PING census for about a month and then I'll post a summary. THANKS in advance ! -johnj o How the SunFlash and FlashBack distribution works --------------------------------------------------- SunFlash and FlashBack articles are usually posted to groups of email addresses. Many of those addresses are local redistribution aliases at Sun offices or customers sites. This makes it hard to determine how SunFlash or FlashBack gets to a particular email address. This message is being posted to each address so that you can see exactly how SunFlash or FlashBack get to you. sunflash@calypso.oit.unc.edu is subscribed to the following lists: flashback sunflash If you want to be dropped, and sunflash@calypso.oit.unc.edu is your personal email address (not an alias) send email to Majordomo@FlashBack.com with a message body: unsubscribe sunflash@calypso.oit.unc.edu replace with each of list names that you want to be removed from. If sunflash@calypso.oit.unc.edu is not your address, then majordomo will send the list manager - me - a copy of your request to approve or disapprove. If sunflash@calypso.oit.unc.edu is a local redistribution alias (e.g. sunflash@sunvice.east.sun.com) then requests should be sent to the owner of that alias instead. (e.g. owner-sunflash@sunvice.east.sun.com) or your local postmaster. o US prices in SunFlash articles -------------------------------- Sun policy prohibits me from posting US prices outside the US. Local prices are determined by a large number of factors including currency fluctuations, import fees, cost of local sales and support, demand and supply, etc. As I now make all my files available via ftp and the World Wide Web, I have to make them appropriate for an international audience. Many people in the US have contacted me to say that they miss having US prices. Here is my solution. The autoresponder, flashback@flashback.com, will send back articles with US prices but only to those people registered in the US. How do you register ? Send email to majordomo@flashback.com and subscribe to the list 'usa'. Note the extra 'end' followed by an explicit statement from you stating your name, location, company and phone number: %mailx majordomo@flashback.com Subject: subscribe usa sunflash@calypso.oit.unc.edu end Your Name Your Company , Your Phone# (the end command tells majordomo to stop processing. I will see the requests and read the entry and end.) For the sunflash-f subscribers, there is a new list called sunflash-f-usa. If you want the US prices, unsubscribe from sunflash-f and subscribe to sunflash-f-usa with a request like the one above. NOTE: I will not have the US prices in place for SunFlash articles until December, 1994. There will be no US prices for any article pre-December 1994 even for those people who join the usa list! o World Wide Web (www) version of SunFlash Now on draco.nova.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------- ** www.update.02.tar.Z available as of 11/21/94 on draco!! ** I now produce SunFlash and FlashBack in HTML, the markup language of the World Wide Web (WWW). I have placed these HTML files on draco.nova.edu in a group of compressed tar files (see below). The directory pub/sunflash/www contains all the up-to-date HTML files too. You can browse the files on nova.edu by using the URL ftp://draco.nova.edu/pub/sunflash/www/welcome.html A few of sites have installed my HTML files into their own Web server for improved local access. Please feel free to copy them to your Web server. How to Install the SunFlash and FlashBack HTML files: copy each of these files from draco.nova.edu/pub/sunflash/www to your WWW server: www.tar.Z (870k) www.update.01.tar.Z (1.46Mb) www.update.01.tar.Z (244k) zcat < www.tar.Z | tar xf - zcat < www.update.01.tar.Z | tar xf - zcat < www.update.02.tar.Z | tar xf - Now www/index.html is your starting point! Please send me your URL inf you install these files! -johnj o Sponsor list ----------------- Many different people have sponsored SunFlash or FlashBack articles. I have created a new list for those people. I will use it to communicate information about SunFlash and FlashBack and why they should continue to sponsor articles. If your company has products or services that would be of interest to the Sun community, please add yourself or your company's marketing rep to the sponsor list. The sponsor list will not receive any SunFlash or FlashBack articles. This makes the sponsor list suitable for marketing and PR types. To join the sponsor list, send email to majordomo@flashback.com thus: %mailx majordomo@flashback.com Subject: subscribe sponsor sunflash@calypso.oit.unc.edu o SunFlash and FlashBack articles and subscriptions --------------------------------------------------- If your company has products or services that you think are of value to the whole Sun community, please send me articles, announcements etc. about them. If you think that it would be more appropriate for your company's marketing or PR people to contact me instead, that's fine too! Please contact then and have them contact me! If you come across a product or service that you think is of value to the whole Sun community, please contact the vendor and suggest that they send articles to me. If you find SunFlash and/or FlashBack to be of value, please encourage your Sun-using colleagues to subscribe too! If you have any problems with SunFlash or FlashBack, send me email. Don't forget to PING me! -johnj John J. Mclaughlin Publisher/Editor SunFlash & FlashBack 1981 NW 38th Terrace Coconut Creek FL 33309 USA (305) 351 4909 FAX (305) 776 7963 flash@Flashback.COM flash@Sun.COM