Here are the instructions for retrieving archives of past messages on this List: (Please read ALL of this message !!!!!) ************************************ Send a message to DURMAN-D-request@rootsweb.com In the subject, type: archive In the body, type: ls volume97 (The above is "el" "ess", not "one" "ess", and the "97" tells the RootsWeb server that you want a list of archives for the year 1997.) You get back a message that looks something like this: From DURMAN-D-request@rootsweb.comSat Jun 21 11:50:36 1997 Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 08:47:22 -0700 From:DURMAN-D-request@rootsweb.com Reply to: Please.write.a.new.mail.instead.of.replying@FIRST.WORD.archive To: sgtgeorg@concentric.net Subject: archive retrieval: ls volume97 ls -l volume97 BEGIN---------------cut here------------------ volume97: total 107 -rw-rw---- 1 slist slist 6509 May 27 09:40 1 -rw-rw---- 1 slist slist 4631 Jun 8 18:11 10 -rw-rw---- 1 slist slist 6091 Jun 11 07:31 11 -rw-rw---- 1 slist slist 2465 Jun 14 18:17 12 -rw-rw---- 1 slist slist 3336 Jun 16 03:52 13 -rw-rw---- 1 slist slist 5078 Jun 17 12:55 14 -rw-rw---- 1 slist slist 2200 Jun 18 09:53 15 -rw-rw---- 1 slist slist 1243 Jun 19 09:53 16 -rw-rw---- 1 slist slist 6697 May 28 11:49 2 -rw-rw---- 1 slist slist 12819 May 29 08:19 3 -rw-rw---- 1 slist slist 4464 May 30 04:29 4 -rw-rw---- 1 slist slist 4422 May 31 06:07 5 -rw-rw---- 1 slist slist 7293 Jun 3 09:20 6 -rw-rw---- 1 slist slist 12527 Jun 4 04:35 7 -rw-rw---- 1 slist slist 8894 Jun 5 04:08 8 -rw-rw---- 1 slist slist 9516 Jun 7 16:46 9 END-----------------cut here------------------ (You can ignore everything in the headers and in the first three columns in the body. The information you are interested in is in the last column. There are three pieces of information in this 4th column: 1) the file size; 2) the date of the archive file; 3) the file number.) (Example: For the archive file of all messages received by the List on the 3rd of June, it is 7,293 bytes in size and its number is 6.) Looking at the dates of the digest, you determine that you want messages 8 through 16 (June 5 through June 19). The file number is the last entry on each line. Send another message to: DURMAN-D-request@rootsweb.com In the subject, type: archive In the body, type: get volume97/8 volume97/9 volume97/1? where "?" is a UNIX wild-card meaning "any character"; "1?" will expand to 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19. You should get back all of those files as individual messages. For another List, substitute its name for "DURMAN". ************************************ Please NOTE: Messages to retrieve archives are sent to: DURMAN-D-request@rootsweb.com not to: DURMAN-L-request@rootsweb.com or DURMAN-L@rootsweb.com or DURMAN-D@rootsweb.com Also note that the line: get volume97/8 volume97/9 volume97/1? Is typed with no space between "volume" and "97/X", but with a space between each "volume97/X". If you have any problems with retrieving archives, please send me a private post; DO NOT send your requests for help to the List. Hope this helps, SgtGeorge