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an Internet forum for meteor observers of all levels


meteorobs - Email Access to the List

Post to the List Subscribe or Unsubscribe Move to the Digest Read Past Messages

To post a message to the whole meteorobs list, just send an email to the address: meteorobs@meteorobs.org

All messages sent to the mailing list are distributed to all its subscribers, and are then stored in an archive accessible on the World Wide Web at: http://www.meteorobs.org/maillist/maillist.html

This Archive can also be searched using our Keyword Search Form.


To subscribe or unsubscribe meteorobs, please send a message to the email address: majordomo@meteorobs.org
with your name and your e-mail address in one of the following formats: subscribe meteorobs myaddress@my.domain.net end Or: unsubscribe meteorobs myaddress@my.domain.net end

Or use the MeteorObs Subscription Web form!


The "Digest Version" of meteorobs is a more convenient (but less timely) way to keep up with the posts to the list! Instead of receiving each individual email, you get a single large message, packed with all the posts to the list so far that day.

To move yourself to the Digest of meteorobs, please send a message from your subscribed account, to the automated MajorDomo email address: majordomo@meteorobs.org
making sure your email body contains the following text:

subscribe meteorobs-digest unsubscribe meteorobs end


The (large) 'meteorobs' Web Archive is also searchable by keyword! Use this simple Web search form... Or you may retrieve the *HTML* results of a keyword search of this archive, by emailing the address majordomo@meteorobs.org with a message containing the following commands: grep meteorobs <your-keyword-here> end Or to actually retrieve all the HTML files returned by 'grep', use: a message containing the following commands: retrieve meteorobs <your-keyword-here> end

For example, you may find all past articles relating to the suspected "Xi Bootid" meteor shower by searching for "xi.bootid.*" in our Web form, or by submitting the command "retrieve meteorobs xi.bootid.*...

NOTE: Please never send subscribe or unsubscribe requests to the 'meteorobs' mailing list address!


NOTE: If either of the Archive or Keyword Search options above are not functioning correctly, there are two EXTERNAL sites which both maintain searchable partial archives of the 'meteorobs' Mailing List:

"Yahoo!" maintains a searchable and browsable archive of 'meteorobs', which covers all posts since Januray 1997. You can even sign up to receive 'meteorobs' (indirectly) through this site!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/meteorobs

Here's another wonderful tool for browsing and searching 'meteorobs', and many other astronomical mail archives, which also covers our posts back to 1997:
http://www.astroarchive.com


Clear skies!
Lew Gramer <dedalus@alum.mit.edu>