Administrivia: Subscribe/Unsuscribe, Postpone, Plain Text

["Okerson, Ann" <ann.okerson@yale.edu>]

Dear Liblicense-l Readers:  Apologies from your moderator for 
sending yesterday to the list a message that was intended for one 
individual who wished to unsubscribe.

That said, with summer and holidays upon us, it's an opportune 
time to review the easiest ways to unsubscribe and re-subscribe, 
if you are leaving for a time and don't wish to receive the list 
mail.

Alternatively, you can opt to "postpone."

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me with any specific questions, or if things don't work for you. 
Most often the reason for lack of success is that an e-mail 
address may have changed between the time you subscribed and 
today.  In that case, your system has probably aliased your old 
address and you are still receiving messages as if there had been 
no change at all.  However, your new messages are in fact being 
sent differently, and the listproc software has no way of knowing 
about the change.  Your command will succeed if you use your 
original subscriber address.  If you're stymied, let me know and 
we'll work together to figure things out.

Also, while we have your attention:  please remember that the 
listproc software is set to receive and distribute ASCII (plain 
text) messages.  If you send attachments or HTML, or otherwise 
formatted text (such as often seems to happen from an Apple 
computer, or with other invisible tagging methods, which you 
might not even see), listproc turns these into some form of 
gibberish.  In some cases I can read through the gibberish and 
clean out all the extraneous characters (such as those pesky 
"=20") one at a time, by hand.  In some cases I think I have 
succeeded, but they elude me -- and you all receive messy 
messages.  Sorry about that.  In other cases, to interpret the 
messages is beyond me and and I have to give up!

The time spent on making messages readable outstrips any actual 
moderation time by a factor of at least 10 to 1.  And it can be 
time that's frustratingly or tediously spent.  Any help you can 
provide will be much appreciated.  For example, one can generally 
set one's mailers to send out 'plain text."  Why do we use plain 
text?  Because we have subscribers all over the world and for a 
visible percentage of them, heavily formatted text is not easily 
readable, or not at all.

Thank you, as always, 
Ann Okerson/Moderator

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