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MAILING LIST: OS2WEB for web site administrators
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darran EDMUNDSON)
Fri Sep 6 16:08:06 1996
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 6 Sep 1996 19:33:11 GMT
From: darran@strad.se.fujitsu.co.jp (Darran EDMUNDSON)
Reply-To: owner-os2web@orion.phys.sfu.ca
Reply-to: owner-os2web@orion.phys.sfu.ca
Submitted by: darran@strad.se.fujitsu.co.jp (Darran EDMUNDSON)
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OS2WEB MAILING LIST CHARTER AND SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION
OS2WEB is a low-traffic unmoderated mailing list (see below for subscription
information) for issues related to hosting a Web site under the OS/2 operating
system. What topics are suitable for this forum? A non-exclusive list would
include:
(1) OS/2 server configuration and administration issues.
(2) Discussion of OS/2 site maintenance tools.
(3) Discussion of IBM's DB2WWW CGI package for real time serving and
updating of information contained in DB2/2 databases.
(4) OS/2 specific CGI scripting including the porting of scripts
(5) REXX for use in running an OS/2 hosted web site
In other words, any reasonable question or comment that OS/2 WWW server
administrators would be interested in ...
NOTE: During this initial sign up period, *please* refrain from sending
messages to OS2WEB until the list owner officially declares OS2WEB open for
business in about a week's time.
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IMPORTANT NOTE: In all likelihood, this mailing list is *not* the proper
forum in which to solve/discuss your problem. In particular, the following
subjects are considered to be off-topic (and thus manifestly unwelcome) and
will only serve to exasperate other list members. (For your convenience,
alternate appropriate USENET newsgroups are suggested in parenthesis.)
- operating system advocacy or discussion as to whether OS/2 is a suitable
platform for a WWW server (comp.os.*.advocacy,
comp.infosystems.www.servers.*)
- discussion of IBM's Web Explorer or any other browser
(comp.os.os2.networking.www, comp.infosystems.www.browsers.*
- WWW server, site creation and administration questions that are general
in nature (comp.infosystems.www.servers.*)
- general discussion of WWW document creation not specific to the OS/2
platform (comp.infosystems.www.authoring.*)
In other words, the above list is meant to imply that general web authoring,
serving and browsing issues are unwelcome (and better addressed elsewhere)
*except* when they are explicitly related to hosting a site on an OS/2 system.
These restrictions should hopefully keep the list low traffic and useful for
its intended audience.
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SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION
The mailing list comes in two flavours, regular and digest. Subscription to
the regular list means that you receive a copy of each submission to OS2WEB.
If the sheer number of messages perturbs you (which would be unusual given the
expected low traffic), the digest version - a compendium of recent messages -
may be a better solution.
To subscribe to the regular or digest version, send an email to:
majordomo@orion.phys.sfu.ca
with either
subscribe os2web (for the regular list)
subscribe os2web-digest (for the digest version)
in the *body* of the message (not the subject line). For other possible
commands, try sending a message body of "help". To unsubscribe from the list,
oddly enough send a similar message to that above except with "unsubscribe
<listname>" in the message body.
*IMPORTANT* All subscription attempts are validated by the list owner. That
is, you will not receive notice of your subscription (nor be able to post to
the list) until the list owner adds your name. Once you have received
confirmation of your subscription, you can then post to the mailing list by
sending email (even if you are a digest subscriber) to
os2web@orion.phys.sfu.ca
The default reply is back to the list and not to the poster. If your reply is
not of general interest, please direct it *only* to the original poster.
The digest version only gets sent out when a certain number of characters are
received - so if you haven't received a digest in some time, the list is
likely not being used. (More unlikely, many one line messages are flowing back
and forth in code to subvert the digest readers.)
If you have subscribe/unsubscribe problems or otherwise need to interact with
a human being rather than the majordomo software, send email to
owner-os2web@orion.phys.sfu.ca
Problems with the Majordomo software should be directed to
Majordomo-owner@orion.phys.sfu.ca
OWNER-OS2WEB
owner-os2web@orion.phys.sfu.ca
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