ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/infolist.txt Update Fri 1-May-98 20:33

This information is above all directed to long-standing contributing
users of garbo.uwasa.fi, preferably with a good uploading record, or
some other background of mutually useful communication with Garbo
moderators. If you feel you don't fall in this category (please do
not be offended, most of our welcome users do not qualify) please
utilize the Usenet newsgroups news:comp.archives.msdos.announce and
news:comp.archives.ms-windows.announce to see the Garbo
announcements.

If you are interested in having your email address added to the
Garbo infolist upload accouncement, download statistics, etc news
list you are welcome to email me an "application". Your application
must include the following line
  YourFirstName YourLastName = youruserid@machine.domain.country
eg mine would be
  Timo Salmi = ts@majakka.uwasa.fi
Be very careful to get this information right. It is absolutely
essential.
   Unless we know each other well from earlier contacts on the net,
you should also clearly state your status, affiliation, and reasons
for wanting to be on this list. E.g. I would state
  Professor of Accounting and Business Finance
  Faculty of Accounting and Industrial Management
  University of Vaasa, Finland
  I want to help in propagation of shareware and PD MS-DOS programs
  and in order to do that I need information of the new uploads to
  your anonymous ftp archives. I would get selected files from your
  list, and put them up for general download on my system.
  (Then eg some information about my computer usage background,
   perhaps on running a BBS, etc).

Note that not quite all our new files are announced on Garbo
infolist. Thus you might also be interested in occasionally looking
at the raw monthly list ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/_files.in at your
own pace.

Some users are worried about an influx of postings that being on
mailing lists like Garbo's infolist announcement list might cause.
There is a solution to this dilemma for those who can obtain a
second userid. Acquire an alternative user account, and use that
address to receive the information from the various mailing lists.
That way a potential influx of material does not interfere with
one's normal email. If you are an advanced user, you might also
consider using automatic filters to sort your email. Try "man
filter" if you are reading your email on a Unix host. I use
filtering extensively myself to sort my incoming email.

   All the best, Timo

....................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi   Co-moderator of news:comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at ftp:// & http://garbo.uwasa.fi/ archives 193.166.120.5
Department of Accounting and Business Finance  ; University of Vaasa
mailto:ts@uwasa.fi <http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/>  ; FIN-65101,  Finland
Spam foiling in effect.  My email filter autoresponder will return a
required email password to users not yet in the privileges database.