Accessing LITSS Mailing List Archive from June 2003

The LITSS mailling list has been moved to from Listproc to Mailman. To browse the archive go to:

http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/private/litss

You will need a subscription password to access the archives. If you don't know your password, go to the the Mailman listinfo page, go to the List Subscribers section, enter the email address you are subscribed with and click the Unsubscribe or Edit option. Select the Password Reminder option to be sent your subscription password.

Otherwise, email the command "password" to litss-request@anu.edu.au, the return mail will give you your subscription password.

The default setting for the archive is to divide messages by month. Do not be surprised, however, if you see some other division of the archive contents: the list manager decides how things will be divided up. There are different viewing options for each month:

• Thread: separates each topic that was discussed from one another and then displays the notes that are part of each "thread" following one another in an indented fashion. This view is the best to use if you want an idea of how conversation on a particular topic progressed.

• Author: sorts all postings alphabetically based on the name of the author.

• Subject: sorts all postings alphabetically by the subject line. This view is useful for finding a particular topic, but it will not show the relationships in a visual fashion as in the Thread view.

• Date: sorts all postings by the date that they were delivered to the list. The final option allows you to download a Gzip'd version of the archive text. Gzip is a compression utility whose files end in .gz. Most "zip" utilities are able to open Gzip'd files.  Then you download and unzip this file you will have the entire contents of the archive's period.

After you have chosen how you wish to view the archive you will see the headers of the notes displayed according to your specified criterion. To read an individual note just click on the subject line. When the note appears there will be additional navigational information allowing you to see the previous or next messages (as you had them sorted), or to request the listing of all of the notes again sorted by a different criterion.