Re: steve- archives

Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Fri, 17 Nov 1995 22:43:13 -0500 (EST)

On Sat, 18 Nov 1995 DKenn473@aol.com wrote:

> Steve I have sent 3 requests for archives and have not gotten any reply. am
> I doing something wrong?
>
> request read:
>
> archive alt-photo-process 9411
> archive alt-photo-process 9412
> archive alt-photo-process 9413

Yes, you're doing something wrong. Request should look EXACTLY like this:

get alt-photo-process archive-9503

..or whatever the number of the archive(s) you want -- note that "94"
stands for the year 94, and I believe the numbers stand for the month --
so there wouldn't be a "9413" in any event. archive-9503 would be (more
or less) March, 1995.

I note also that if you so much as omit a single hyphen, listproc is not
amused. Take a look at the last hyphen between the word "archive" and the
number. I tried for weeks to get an archive without it. :-<

Let me suggest again that all who have not read the archive do so; it
will make you a better person. And might I suggest also that those who have
never sent for an archive make hard copy of the format above? (Don't tell me
the dog ate it.)

Judy