Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 22:38:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: malgosia askanas <ma-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: archive afterthoughts


Sorry, I have to add some caveats and extras to my post about the archive.
First of all, the "current" file is currently almost 1.5 megabytes long,
which may strain some people's disk space.  We (spoons) should chip it into
more manageable chunks.  Secondly, the majordomo "get" command delivers 
the file to you in a form which makes it impossible to appply a mail program 
to it so as to read it as a bunch of separate mail messages -- the way 
you read your incoming mail.  In contrast, if you get the "current" file
(or any other archive mail file) using FTP, you can then read it in Pine
or another mail program as if it was a regular mail folder.  (I hope I am
able to make sense here.)  So let me tell you how to do it via FTP.  

Type 

    ftp  jefferson.village.virginia.edu

When asked for the login ID, type 

   anonymous

When asked for the password, type your e-mail address. 

This should get you into the jefferson machine, and you should get the
FTP prompt (which, I think, is "ftp>").  Type

   cd  pub/pubs/listservs/spoons/surrealist.archive

and, after you receive the ftp prompt again, type

   get  current

which will initiate the transfer of the "current" file from the
jefferson machine to yours.  This transfer could take a while, since the file
is (right now) so big.  When you get another FTP prompt, type

   quit

to get out of FTP.

C'est tout.  Now the file will be on your system, and you can read it
as a mail folder.


-malgosia