short note on long articles

Gary S. Trujillo (gst)
Wed, 30 Jun 1993 14:42:29 -0500

A NATIVE-L subscriber has brought to my attention the inconvenience and
cost that relay of long articles on this mailing list can cause. After
a bit of reflection, I have decided that it will be my policy in future
to strive to distribute such materials via an alternate mechanism, such
as the "filelist" archive on the TAMVM1 LISTSERV system and/or by means
of an ftp and/or gopher site. I am presently discussing setting up such
an archive with faculty members at one university. If anyone knows of
likely candidates for additional archive sites, and you are in a position
to facilitate contact with someone who can help obtain approval to set up
an ftp or gopher archive, please let me know. Having one or more places
to store long documents could be of significant advantage to the NativeNet
community.

In order to get a list of files which are presently in the NATIVE-L file-
list archive, just send a message containing:

index native-l
^ (the letter "l" - not the numeral "1")

to the address listserv@tamvm1.tamu.edu
^ (the numeral "1" - not the letter "l")

To retrieve an article from the filelist, use the command:

get name1 name2 native-l

where "name1" and "name2" are the two parts of the file name reported
in the listing obtained via the "index" command. Please let me know if
you have any problems retrieving such files from the filelist.

Gary

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    Gary S. Trujillo                            gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us
Somerville, Massachusetts              {wjh12,bu.edu,spdcc,ima,cdp}!gnosys!gst