Date:    Fri, 18 Jul 1997 22:18:45 -0700
  From:    "Christopher M. Smith" 
  Subject: VANAGON at gerry vs. lenti - READ PLEASE!
  
  >From your former list admin ... Gerry Skerbitz.
  
  This is good stuff, please read and KEEP A COPY!
  
  Chris
  
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  The listserv running on gerry.sdsc.edu has more features than "listproc"
  running on lenti.  To take advantage of some of them, you need to understand
  how they work.
  
  Send these messages to listserv@gerry.sdsc.edu and NOT to vanagon@gerry or to
  anything @lenti.  Make sure your subject line is blank or "NONE".
  
  The message formats are
  SET VANAGON DIGEST
  SET VANAGON NODIGEST
  SET VANAGON INDEX
  SET VANAGON NOINDEX
  SET VANAGON MAIL
  SET VANAGON NOMAIL
  
  Here are the descriptions of these modes from the manual.
  
  5.3.2. DIGest/NODIGest
  ----------------------
  Causes the subscriber to receive one posting per digest cycle (typically
  daily)  rather than individual messages as they are processed by LISTSERV.
  
  In version 1.8b, the MAIL/NOMAIL option has been isolated from DIGEST/INDEX.
  The MAIL/NOMAIL option controls whether messages should be delivered, and the
  DIGEST/INDEX/NODIGEST/NOINDEX option controls the format in which messages
  should be delivered. Thus, switching to NOMAIL and back to MAIL now preserves
  the digest/index/normal delivery setting. To provide as much compatibility
  with the old syntax as possible, the four options operate as follows:
  
   DIGEST: enable digest delivery mode (which negates INDEX), enable mail
           delivery.
  
   INDEX:  enable index delivery mode (which negates DIGEST), enable mail
           delivery.
  
   NOMAIL: disable mail delivery.
  
   MAIL:   restore mail delivery, without altering the digest/index/normal
           delivery setting (new behavior). For compatibility with 1.8a, if mail
           delivery was already active, the MAIL option negates INDEX/DIGEST.
           Thus, a user going from NOMAIL to MAIL will keep his previous  delivery
           options, whereas a user going from DIGEST or INDEX to MAIL will in
           fact deactivate index/digest mode.
  
  To revert from digest/index subscription mode to normal delivery, you can use
  either the MAIL option as before, or the NODIGEST/NOINDEX option. The NODIGEST
  and NOINDEX options were actually present in versions 1.7f and 1.8a, as
  synonyms for the MAIL option. In other words, you can update your instructions
  to indicate that the DIGEST/INDEX options are negated by the NODIGEST/NOINDEX
  options, even if your server is not yet running version 1.8b.
  
  Note that in extreme cases, subscribers using the DIGEST option may receive
  more than one digest per cycle if the digest limit is reached before the end
  of the cycle.
  
  
  
  --
  Gerry
  Gerald Skerbitz  U of MN Med School Admin 6-5379
  Home St. Paul,Ramsey County,Minnesota, USA