Iowa Health Sciences Librarians
Mailing List Information

The purpose of the ia-medlibs mailing list is to expedite communication between medical librarians in the state of Iowa. The list will serve as a forum for discussion and as a bulletin-board for announcements of interest to Iowa medical librarians.

Ed Holtum is the list owner. If you have questions about this list,
please contact the list owner at owner-ia-medlibs@list.uiowa.edu

If you have not yet subscribed to the list and wish to do so, just follow the instructions below:

Send an e-mail to the following address: ia-medlibs-request@list.uiowa.edu

The message should read, simply, "subscribe" (without the quotations). That's it.

Soon, you will receive instructions about how to use the list and a copy of the information that is reprinted below.

There are two addresses associated with this list serve.

The posting address is: ia-medlibs@list.uiowa.edu

This is the address for all messages intended for list subscribers. Any
message that you send to ia-medlibs@list.uiowa.edu will automatically go to
all individuals subscribed.

The utility address is: ia-medlibs-request@list.uiowa.edu

This is the address that you direct all administrative commands to.
Administrative commands include subscribing and unsubscribing from the list.

Additional mailing list instructions are listed below.
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MAILING LIST INSTRUCTIONS
Some basic instructions are included here. If you have questions
about this mailing list that are not answered here, please send
an e-mail message to owner of this list. The owner's e-mail
address is:

owner-ia-medlibs@list.uiowa.edu


UNSUBSCRIBING
To unsubscribe from the list, type the word "unsubscribe"
on a line by itself (send only that word--don't include an
e-mail address with the command) in an e-mail message and
send it to the address

ia-medlibs-request@list.uiowa.edu

Note: You will not receive any response to your unsubscribe
request if everything works. In this case, no news is good news.


SENDING MESSAGES TO THE LIST
To send a message to the list, use the e-mail address

ia-medlibs@list.uiowa.edu

The message will be forwarded to everyone currently subscribed.
If the list is moderated, the message will not be forwarded to
subscribers until it has been approved by the moderator.

HINT #1: Notice the difference between the two e-mail addresses
above. The address with "-request" should only be used when
sending commands (see the next section).

HINT #2: When you send a message to the list, you will NOT
get a copy of your own message mailed back to you (this might
be different behavior from other mailing lists you use). If
there's a problem sending your message, you will receive an
e-mail message with any errors that occurred.


SENDING COMMANDS
(NOTE FOR OFFICE VISION USERS: The instructions here will not
work from Office Vision! There might be instructions for you
in the section ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT THIS LIST below.
If not, contact your list owner for information.)

To send a command (e.g., help), type the command name on
a line by itself in the body of the e-mail message (not on
the Subject: line). Send the message to the address

ia-medlibs-request@list.uiowa.edu

The results of the command are returned to you via e-mail
(except for "unsubscribe," which returns nothing). You can
include more than one command in the message--just put one
command on each line. The last command should be "end".

Here are some of the available commands you might use.

help returns more detailed command descriptions
info returns the list description
lists returns a list of all mailing lists
subscribe used to join a mailing list
unsubscribe used to leave a mailing list
which returns names of lists to which you are subscribed
who returns the list of subscribers for this list