Administrivia: Alpha-OSF-Managers information and policy statement

From: Dave Sill <de5_at_sws5.ctd.ornl.gov>
Date: 9 Jul 1997 16:54:14 -0000

EVERYONE WHO RECEIVES THIS MESSAGE HAD BETTER READ IT THOROUGHLY.

This message is a summary of the Alpha-OSF-managers charter and
rules. Failure to adhere to these guidelines may result in severe
chastisement by the list maintainer and other list participants.
Retain a copy of this statement and refer to it before submitting
messages to the list or the list administrator.

Last modified: Oct. 24, 1996

0: Send DEC Alpha AXP management queries and summaries to
    alpha-osf-managers_at_ornl.gov.

1: This list is NOT moderated! Every message that is sent to the
    list will be passed on to every member of the list (with a few
    small exceptions).

2: This mailing list is managed by a utility called Majordomo. You
    can subscribe to the list by sending a message like:

        subscribe alpha-osf-managers

    to Majordomo_at_ornl.gov. Likewise, if you want to remove yourself
    from the list, send the message:

        unsubscribe alpha-osf-managers

    to the same address.

    For a complete list of Majordomo commands, use the command:

        help

3: This list is intended to be a quick-turnaround troubleshooting
    aid for those who administer and manage Alpha AXP systems runnning
    Digital UNIX (formerly OSF/1). Its primary purpose is to provide
    the Alpha manager with a quick source of information for
    time-critical system management problems.

4: Answers to questions are to be mailed back to the questioner and
    are NOT to be sent to the entire list. The person who originally
    asked the question has the responsibility of summarizing the
    answers and sending the entire summary back to the list. When a
    summary is sent back to the list, it should contain the word
    "SUMMARY" as the first word of the "Subject" line.

5: Discussions on ANY topic are very strongly discouraged and will
    not normally be tolerated.

6: If it is not specifically related to Alpha AXP/Digital UNIX
    management, then it does NOT belong on this list. Requests for
    vendor recommendations are tolerated, provided that the product
    in question is something that system managers normally purchase.

7: Requests for software (free or otherwise) should be limited to
    software that is directly related to Alpha/OSF management.

8: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE...Think before you send a message! Ask
    yourself "is this really appropriate?" There are enough other
    newsgroups and mailing lists around to cover the marginal topics.
    Perhaps there is another forum that is more appropriate.

9: Alpha-OSF-Managers messages are archived and available via
    the World Wide Web (WWW) and anonymous FTP. The official Web
    archives are available at
      http://www.ornl.gov/cts/archives/mailing-lists/
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      ftp://ftp.ornl.gov/pub/archives/mailing_lists/alpha-osf-managers/.
    Unofficial Web archives are available at
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      http://www.bive.unit.liu.se/~bive/listor/

10: Similar lists for non-Alpha/UNIX platforms are:

    Vendor List Name How to Subscribe
    ====== ========= ================
    DEC AlphaNT send "subscribe alphant" to
                                majordomo_at_garply.com

    DEC decstation-managers send "subscribe decstation-managers"
                                to majordomo_at_ornl.gov

    HP hpux-admin send "subscribe hpux-admin" to
                                majordomo_at_cv.ruu.nl

    IBM AIX-L send "subscribe aix-l your name" to
                                listserv_at_pucc.princeton.edu

    SGI info-iris-admin ask info-iris-request_at_arl.mil

    Sun sun-managers ask sun-managers-request_at_ra.mcs.anl.gov

11: Other forums that relate to DEC Alpha systems:

    Newsgroups:
        comp.sys.dec includes all DEC hardware and software
        comp.unix.osf.osf1 OSF/1 on Alpha and other platforms

                                  Dave Sill
                                Alpha-OSF-Managers maintainer
                                Workstation Support
                                Oak Ridge National Laboratory
                                de5_at_ornl.gov
Received on Wed Jul 09 1997 - 19:08:28 NZST

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