Amst. list of email addresses

Jane A. Edwards (edwards@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU)
Thu, 19 Jan 1995 16:37:58 -0800

Since I find these things so useful, myself, I wanted to forward
the Amsterdam list's posting to LINGUIST this week
concerning updating their list of linguist email addresses.
The Amsterdam list is the oldest and biggest list of linguist email
addresses, and because it's also independent of the LSA list,
you might want to double-check the address(es) they have for you there
even if you know your address information is correctly listed
on the LSA list.

To obtain Amsterdam's full list rather than just your entry in it, send
the command:
list *
(with a space between list and *) to LINGUISTS@ALF.LET.UVA.NL.
To obtain their list of FAX addresses, send the command: list fax

Best Wishes,

-Jane Edwards (edwards@cogsci.berkeley.edu)
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[forwarded from Linguist]
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 14:01 +0100 (MET)
From: "Norval Smith (UVAALF::NSMITH)" (NSMITH@ALF.LET.UVA.NL)
Subject: LINGUIST NAMESERVER

The Linguists Nameserver - Plea

As many of you will know we maintain a Nameserver for linguists and
related scientists at LINGUISTS@ALF.LET.UVA.NL. This Nameserver
contains around 7500 e-mail addresses of persons and institutions, as
well as institutional FAX addresses.
As with all such lists the addresses rapidly become out of date,
as people change jobs, or computer centres change computers. To reduce
the number of ghost adddresses, and add linguists to the list whose e-mail
addresses are not presently contained in it, I would encourage all direct and
indirect subscribers to LINGUIST to check that their address(es) are still
valid.
Three commands are relevant in this context:

LIST
This command enables one or more addresses to be extracted from the
database. The correct syntax to extract Bill Clinton's address (just an
example) would be:

list clinton

This command should be sent to linguists@alf.let.uva.nl

REMOVE
This command enables a single address to be removed. The correct
syntax is:

remove clinton, bill: clinton@ovalroom.whitehouse.gov

ADD
This command enables a single address to be added. The correct
syntax is:

add clinton, bill: clinton@ovalroom.whitehouse.gov

To change an address you require both a REMOVE and an ADD operation. Any
combination of commands is acceptible as long each is given on a separate
line. There is no restriction to one command per message. So 150 separate
ADD commands in one message is quite acceptible.
We would ask that people do not use capital letters in addresses -
these are never essential.
The reason for us to ask this at the present is that we will be
transferring operations in the near future from the VAX on which LINGUISTS
is now maintained to a new UNIX system. This will also enable us to
improve our service with new possibilities.

Norval Smith Pieter Masereeuw

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