This message is being posted to the flashback mailing list to help resolve some alias problems and to help you understand how flashback gets to you. You are getting this message because: sunflash@calypso.oit.unc.edu is in the flashback list 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 flashback sunflash@calypso.oit.unc.edu If flashback 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) If you want to make a change, unsubscribe and then subscribe. For example, fred@foo.com wants to move from the high volume daily lists to the once-per-week list. fred sends this message to Majordomo@FlashBack.com: unsubscribe flashback fred@foo.com unsubscribe sunflash fred@foo.com subscribe flashback-w fred@foo.com subscribe sunflash-w fred@foo.com If you want to unsubscribe a local redistribution alias such as sunflash@sunvice.east.sun.com (perhaps because you are renaming it), please send the unsubscribe message to Majordomo@FlashBack.com and CC flash@flashback.com. I hope that you find SunFlash and FlashBack to be of value! To make this test message useful, I am including article 9001 which is a general introduction to SunFlash and FlashBack. -johnj 9001 General FlashBack/SunFlash Information ============================================= From: flash@flashback.com (John J. McLaughlin) This article contains general information about the electronic journals that I edit and publish: "SunFlash" , "The Sun FlashBack" and "The Internet Sun FlashBack" I produced "The Florida SunFlash" for nearly six years. "SunFlash" is the continuation of that journal. When "SunFlash" grew to about 100 articles per month, 140,000+ subscribers and 30,000+ article requests per month I decided that it was time to make some changes. For a variety of reasons, I started the two new journals, "The Sun FlashBack" and "The Internet Sun FlashBack" , and moved production of all three journals to an independent company with its own resouces and Internet domain (FlashBack.COM). My goal, as always, is to provide useful, timely, high-quality information to the Sun user community. November 30th, 1994, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FlashBack, Inc. is a publisher of full-text on-demand electronic jounals. Flashback is independent of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and does not claim to represent Sun Microsystems, Inc. The FlashBack journals are free to all subscribers. You may share the articles for non-profit purposes as long as you leave the copyright notices in place. Some articles will have more restrictive copyrights. E.g. most FAQ's may not be used for profit or modified. Please respect such copyrights. The FlashBack journals are available through: o Mailing lists o USENET news o ftp o World Wide Web (WWW) o E-Mail Auto-Responder The Electronic Journals ======================== The current SunFlash/Flashback journals are "SunFlash" , "The Sun FlashBack" and "The Internet Sun FlashBack". SunFlash Articles about Sun from Sun. The types of articles posted here include: o Sun Press Releases o Edited Sun Producted Announcements (aka SunIntro) o Sun e-newsletters (e.g. "Sun Hottest", "Hot of the Press") o Sunergy announcements and e-newsletters The Sun FlashBack Articles about Sun or of interest to the Sun community from comanies other than Sun. The types of articles posted here include: o Sun User Group announcemsnts o Product announcements o Company newsletters o newsletter table of contents (e.g. "HPCwire", "WEBster', "SPARCFlash") o trade magazine table of contents (e.g. "Advanced Systems", "Open Computing") o Conference/Seminar/Trade-Show announcements o Text Book announcements (Sun/UNIX/Interet/Security/Sys-Admin/Computing) o Sponsored technical articles The Internet Sun Flashback Note: the "Internet Sun FlashBack" is posted to the "FlashBack" list. It is not currently a separate list. I am still considering if this should be a separate list. Articles of interest to the Sun community from the Internet and about the Internet are posted to this list. These articles are usually copyrighted and may only be used for non-profit purposes. The types of articles posted here include: o Sun-related Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) o CERT/Security annoucements o Updated Internet Services List - by Scott A. Yanoff o Internet Mall - by Dave Taylor o Internet Services -by Kevin Savetz o electronic newsletters (e.g. EFF's "Everybody's Internet", NSF's "Scout Report" Subscribing to The Mailing Lists ================================= Subscribing and Unsubscribing to the mailing lists is done via majordomo@flashback.com or your local system administrator. There are five options for each of the two main journals, SunFlash and FlashBack. To keep the volume of email low or fixed, I offer 'digests'. Digests contain a one paragraph summary for a number of articles. The full-text of any article can be obtained by sending email to Flashback@FlashBack.COM with the article number in the Subject field. Daily will have some articles and some digests Weekly one digest per week Monthly one digest per month Full no digests - all of the articles. Upto 100 per month. Sometimes there will be bursts of 5 to 15 articles. MailTool one article per week with a digest in the message body and all of the articles as attachements. (MailTool style today, Will be MIME soon.) The names for the 10 mailing lists are sunflash Daily SunFlash sunflash-w Weekly SunFlash sunflash-m Monthly SunFlash sunflash-f Full SunFlash mt-sunflash-w Mailtool SunFlash Weekly flashback Daily FlashBack flashback-w Weekly FlashBack flashback-m Monthly FlashBack flashback-f Full FlashBack mt-flashback-w Mailtool FlashBack Weekly For example, if johnj@flashback.com wants to get one SunFlash article per week and the daily Flashback, then the following mail message would be send to Majordomo@FlashBack.COM: % mailx Majordomo@FlashBack.COM Subject: subscribe sunflash-w johnj@flashback.com subscribe flashback johnj@flashback.com ^D % If johnj wants to change his flashback to the weekly version, then the following mail message would be send to Majordomo@FlashBack.COM: % mailx Majordomo@FlashBack.COM Subject: unsubscribe flashback johnj@flashback.com subscribe flashback-w johnj@flashback.com ^D % Local Mailing Lists ==================== There is a large number of SunFlash and FlashBack aliases in place at sites around the world that are used for the redistribution of the SunFlash and Flashback journals. If you get SunFlash or FlashBack through one of those aliases, you must direct change requests to the administrator of that alias and not Majordomo@FlashBack.COM. By convention, the local aliases are called sunflash@ and the admin can be contacted at owner-sunflash@. However, not all aliases follow these rules. Most of the local Sun offices that redistribute SunFlash follow the convention. e.g. sunflash@sunfla.east.sun.com and owner-sunflash@sunfla.east.sun.com I will post the Monthly SunFlash and FlashBack articles to each of the entries in sunflash and flashback individually. This will help you see how SunFlash and FlashBack get to you. If you are included in an alias that is included in a local redistribution alias, this will help but it will still not be obvious how SunFlash gets to you. The owner of the local redistribution alias should be able to help. Normally I will post articles to SunFlash and FlashBack in batches such that the real To: addresses are hidden. If you are having a problem with unsubscribing, please send me a copy of one of the messages that you get with the full mail headers. USENET News ============ The Weekly and Monthly editions of "SunFlash" , "The Sun FlashBack" and "The Internet Sun FlashBack" are posted to the USENET newsgroup comp.sys.sun.announce. Some organizations automatically convert SunFlash into a local newsgroup. Check with your local admin. For example, within Sun Microsystems, all of the SunFlash and FlashBack articles are posted to the Sun-only newsgroup sun.sunflash. If you make SunFlash available within your organization as a newsgroup, please tell me and I will update a document that I maintain that lists SunFlash/FlashBack distributors. FlashBack and ftp ================== draco.nova.edu:/pub/sunflash is the primary FlashBack/SunFlash site. There are several sites around the world that automatically mirror the files from draco.nova.edu:/pub/sunflash - ftp server Directory name ------------------- ----------------------- draco.nova.edu pub/sunflash sunsite.unc.edu pub/sun-info/sunflash src.doc.ic.ac.uk sun/sunflash ftp.uu.net systems/sun/sunflash ftp.adelaide.edu.au pub/sun/sunflash Three compressed tar files on the ftp-servers contain all of the articles for the last three years: 1992.tar.Z 1.6Mb (vol 37 to 48) 1993.tar.Z 3.9Mb (vol 49 to 60) 1994.tar.Z 3.4Mb (vol 61 to 70) You can access individual articles as files under the sunflash/1994 directory. You can access each volume as a single compressed tar file under the directory sunflash/1992, sunflash/1993 and sunflash/1994. e.g. the whole of volume 50 can be copies by fetching the 140k file sunflash/1993/50.feb.tar.Z FlashBack and the World Wide Web (WWW) ======================================= Starting with Vol 70 (October, 1994), the files that make up the HTML pages for "SunFlash" , "The Sun FlashBack" and "The Internet Sun FlashBack" are on draco.nova.edu:/pub/sunflash/www They can be copied into any WWW server to provide local access. You can copy all of the HTML pages by ftp-ing the file draco.nova.edu:/pub/sunflash/www/welcome.html and the compressed tar file draco.nova.edu:/pub/sunflash/www/www.tar.Z If you copy these files and make SunFlash/FlashBack available from your WWW server, please send me email and I will update my document that lists SunFlash/FlashBack distributors. The HTML files on an ftp sevrer can be accessed with a WWW broswer such as Mosaic by using an ftp URL such as ftp://draco.nova.edu:/pub/sunflash/www/welcome.html Suggestions for improvements in the HTML or file structure from experienced Web Masters is encouraged! I produce several files for each article and use scripts to produce digests, weekly and monthly editions: o .html - the actual HTML source - if it exists o .txt - formatted ASCII version. Sometimes produced from the .html with the help of Mosaic and some manual editing o .title - the one line subject title for the article o .index - a one paragraph HTML index entry for the article o nnnn or nn.nn - the base filename contains the article number such as 70.12 or 5011 The sunflash/www directory structure contains all of the files - with the file ending described above - used to build the WWW pages not just the final HTML files. FlashBack E-Mail Auto-Responder ================================ You many request "SunFlash" , "The Sun FlashBack" or "The Internet Sun FlashBack" articles by sending mail to flashback@flashback.com. Simply place a list of one or more space separated article numbers in the subject line. E.g. to fetch the October 1994 monthly editions for each of the three e-journals, send email thus: % mailx FlashBack@FlashBack.COM Subject: 70.00 5013 1050 ^D % and three articles will be returned. If you don't get a response or if you know or suspect that your mail system does not properly set the From: address in your mail message (e.g. by not including a full domain name), then you can add a line email-to followed by an email address. e.g. same example as before, but force response to flash@tuesday.FlashBack.COM % mailx FlashBack@FlashBack.COM Subject: 70.00 5013 1050 email-to: flash@tuesday.FlashBack.COM ^D % ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SunFlash - A Full-Text On Demand Newsletter The Sun FlashBack - A Full-Text On Demand Newsletter The Internet Sun FlashBack - A Full-Text On Demand Newsletter John J. McLaughlin Publisher & Editor - flash@FlashBack.COM Subscriptions to Majordomo@FlashBack.COM Article Requests to FlashBack@FlashBack.COM ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (C) Copyright 1994 FlashBack, Inc. No changes to be made without the author's written consent. Reproduction/redistribution without permission is allowed so long as it is for non-profit purposes.