WCENTER FAQ

[lady brown <YKFLB@ttacs.ttu.edu>]

Frequently Asked Questions about WCENTER
Revised and mailed out monthly [maybe] -- Version 3.2 (May 1997)
[This document is adapted from a similar document created by
Traci Gardner for the ACW-L.  Thanks, Traci.]

1. What is this document?

You're reading the WCENTER FAQ, a list of frequently asked
questions about the WCENTER discussion list.  This document
covers the following
questions:

-- What is WCENTER?
-- How do I subscribe to WCENTER?
-- How do I leave WCENTER or change my settings?
-- What if I *still* can't unsubscribe?
-- Are the messages available anywhere else? Are there archives?
-- Who is nobody@ttacs6.ttu.edu?

2. What is WCENTER?

WCENTER is the E-Mail Discussion Lists which includes discussion
of a wide variety of issues concerning writing center theory and
practice.

Modeled after MBU-L, a list for people interested in computers
and Writing, WCENTER was established in 1991 by Fred Kemp, Lady
Falls Brown, and Ed Sears.  Lady Falls Brown is listowner.


3.  How do I subscribe to WCENTER?

	To subscribe, send an e-mail message to the following 	
address:
      		 LISTPROC@LISTSERV.TTU.EDU

	Include no subject line.

	Your message should have the following four-word 	
message:
       		subscribe WCENTER yourfirstname yourlastname


4. How do I leave WCENTER or change my settings?

WCENTER is distributed using ListProcessor software. To leave the
list or change your settings, you should send an e-mail message
to
		LISTPROC@LISTSERV.TTU.EDU

The body of the message should contain your request, using a
valid command-- you can get a list of the commands by sending the
command HELP to the LISTPROC address.

To leave WCENTER, you'd send the command: 
	unsubscribe WCENTER

To set your list preferences, use the following table:
Syntax: set <list> [<option> <arg[s]>]

option: mail, password, address, conceal
arg for 'mail': ack/noack/postpone/digest
args for 'password': <current-password> <new-password>
args for 'address': <current-password> <new-address>
arg for 'conceal': yes/no

To postpone your mail briefly (while you're on vacation or at
midterm break for instance), you'd send the following command:
       set WCENTER mail postpone

To set your mail to be delivered in digest form, you'd send the
following command:
       set WCENTER mail digest

To start getting mail again, you could send the following
command, which would tell the software to begin sending you mail
again and to send you an acknowledgement (ack) if you post a
message to the list:
       set WCENTER mail ack

5. How do you unsubscribe if you try all the options above and
still can't leave the list?

The inability to unsubscribe may be caused by the fact that your
e-mail address has changed since you originally subscribed to the
list. 

You can write another message to
LISTPROC@LISTSERV.TTU.EDU, with the command: Review WCENTER in
order to figure out what e-mail address you've subscribed from. 

You might find, for example, that you are subscribed from the
address rhetor@importantCC.edu but your server name has changed
and your now sending mail from the address
rhetor@mail.importantCC.edu. It's a subtle difference;
but the list processor would see you as different people.

If this is your situation, you'd send a message to unsubscribe
using the e-mail address which is listed when you review the
list. 

If you are using a mail client which lets you indicate your
return address using settings or preferences (like Eudora), you
can change your return address to the OLD address, and send a
message to  LISTPROC@LISTSERV.TTU.EDU unsubscribing. Often this
process will allow you to unsubscribe.

If you can no longer send mail from the address you're subscribed
from and nothing you've tried has worked, contact the listowner,
Lady Falls Brown at ykflb@ttacs.ttu.edu
who can remove you from the list by editing the file on the
server.


6. Is there any way to read the messages on WCENTER without
subscribing to the list if there are more messages than I can
handle in e-mail?

To read the messages on WCENTER, you do not need to be logged
into the list. All the messages from WCENTER are automatically
archived in hypernews -- a program which converts e-mail messages
to WWW pages. Just point your web
browser to  http://www.ttu.edu:80/lists/wcenter/ for access to
the WCENTER archives from 1995 to present.

7.  Who is nobody@ttacs6.ttu.edu and why is this entity getting
all the error messages for the list?

As far as the list processor software knows, the "owner" of
WCENTER is "nobody" -- Listproc software sends the listowner
many, many error messages when e-mail to any address doesn't go
through.  And because the software keeps trying to send the
message every few hours, every bounced message can result in 3 or
4 messages to the listowner.  

With a list the size of WCENTER, that amounts to a lot of
messages -- more than can easily be read.  The computer folks who
help with the lists at Texas Tech have set up WCENTER, so
that all these messages go to "nobody" and thereafter are
deleted.

So if you write to "nobody" to get off the lists, nothing will
happen. "Nobody" is just that, 'nobody.' To communicate with a
human entity about the list, you need to write to
ykflb@ttacs.ttu.edu.

8. Where do I send questions or comments about this FAQ mailing?

Send your e-mail feedback to ykflb@ttacs.ttu.edu.


Again, thanks to Traci Gardner who has graciously allowed me to
copy/alter the ACW-L FAQ to suit our needs. 

Lady Falls Brown
wcenter listowner
ykflb@ttacs.ttu.edu