NM Bike Racers E-Mail List
The bike-racers mailing list should be used for
information exchange among members of ACA, USCF, NORBA, and NCCA. As of
January 2005 there are about 500 racers from throughout New Mexico (and
some outside of New Mexico) subscribed to the list. Please note that
postings relating something local to, say, Albuquerque are also seen by
many people in other cities around the state. Please be courteous with
your postings.
The list works by forwarding all email sent to it to all the subscribers
to the list. To send a message, address it to: bike-racers@swcp.com.
It will then be automatically forwarded to everyone. This is a "closed"
list, meaning that only subscribers to the list can send mail through
it. This is to help keep the spam out of the list. It also means that
only subscribers can find out who the other subscribers
are.
NOTE: Please do not send large files or files with attachments
through the list. And please use plain text
formatting.
Confirmation Letter
After you subscribe to the bike racers mail list you will receive a
confirmation letter that's something like the following:
>>>> info bike-racers [Last updated on: Fri Jul 25 14:45:57 1997] Welcome to the bike-racers list! The bike-racers mailing list should be used for information exchange among members of the ACA, USCF, NORBA, and NCCA. If demand exists, we can set up more lists that are regionally oriented like bike-racers-abq, or bike-racers-lascruces. Each list, however, costs $50 to set up and $5 per month to maintain. The NMBRA surcharge you pay in your race entries has paid to set this list up.
Commands
All administrative actions for the bike-racers list (such as routine
subscribe/unsubscribe requests) are handled automatically by way of a
special e-mail address on the list machine,
namely: majordomo@swcp.com
You ask Majordomo to perform various tasks on your behalf by sending
e-mail to the address above containing one or more appropriate commands
as listed below. Note that the commands must appear
in the body of your message since the Subject:
line is ignored, and that the last command in any request should
be the END command (this prevents Majordomo from attempting to interpret
any signature lines you might have at the end of your message).
Possible Majordomo commands are (commands can be typed in either upper
or lower case):
SUBSCRIBE bike-racers Subscribe yourself to the list. UNSUBSCRIBE bike-racers >Unsubscribe yourself from the list. LISTS Show the lists served by this Majordomo server. WHICH Find out which lists you are on. WHO listname Find out who is on the `listname' list. INFO listname Retrieve the general introductory information for `listname'. INDEX listname Return an index of files you can "get" for `listname'. HELP Retrieve this message. END Stop processing commands.
Example: To find out who else is on the list, send a message to
majordomo@swcp.com with the following lines in the body of the message
(leave the subject line blank):
WHO bike-racers END
If everything goes OK, Majordomo will process your request and send you the requested
information.
Since the system is fully automated, you can subscribe and unsubscribe
as many times as you like, day or night, without worrying about wasting
the time of a human operator.