Last week my computer scrambled some of my saved digests. I posted a request for someone to send me the digests. (Thanks to those who responded) I received the following info on how to obtain the archived digests from Rootsweb (Thanks, Sallie!!) and it worked great so wanted to forward this info to the lists I am on. Hope it will be of help to others. Happy Hunting, Becky G. <snipped> --------- Begin forwarded message ---------- From: Sallie Hobbs <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 01:09:40 -0500 While the archives web site is being rebuilt, you can retrieve archives easily by email. IMPORTANT! Please remember ALL archive searches and retrievals are sent to the list command address (the one you used when you subbed; the one with "request" (no quotes) in the address) with the word "archive" (without the quotes) in the subject line. As always, there must be NOTHING but the command in the body text. Turn off your signature. The archives are in DIGEST form, but you Don't need to subscribe to the digest mode in order to retrieve a digest. If You Don't Know The Digest You Need: Using the MILLER list as an example: Send a message to: [email protected] with: "archive" (no quotes) in the subject Put: "ls volume98" in the body (that is a lower case "ell" in the command): ls volume98 (no space between volume and 98) You get back via email: From: [email protected] Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 07:38:25 -0800 (PST) To: [email protected] X-Loop: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: archive retrieval: ls volume98 Precedence: bulk ls -l volume98 BEGIN---------------cut here------------------ total 102 -rw-rw---- 1 slist slist 3194 Jan 4 15:56 1 -rw-rw---- 1 slist slist 5291 Feb 8 09:52 10 -rw-rw---- 1 slist slist 1855 Jan 8 05:49 2 -rw-rw---- 1 slist slist 3898 Jan 9 13:40 3 -rw-rw---- 1 slist slist 11255 Jan 12 22:00 4 -rw-rw---- 1 slist slist 3095 Jan 23 18:42 5 -rw-rw---- 1 slist slist 2801 Jan 27 06:29 6 -rw-rw---- 1 slist slist 2888 Jan 30 07:34 7 -rw-rw---- 1 slist slist 10856 Jan 31 09:30 8 -rw-rw---- 1 slist slist 2166 Feb 5 00:32 9 END-----------------cut here------------------ Looking at the dates of the digest, you determine that you want #9 Aand #10 (Feb. 5 and Feb. 8)). The file # is the last entry on each line. To Request The Digest You Want From the above list or if you already know which digest you want(as I did): Send a NEW message to [email protected] (DON'T just reply to the message you received from them) Put: "archive" in the subject (again no quotes) In the body of the message you will put which digests you want as below: (Note: there is NO space between the word "volume" and "98".) get volume98/9 get volume98/10 You will get digests #9 and #10 by email. A shortcut is if you are retrieving ALL the digest in a "set", for instance, all the digests numbered "20, 21, etc.), you could enter: get volume98/2* "*" is a UNIX wild-card meaning "any character"; "2*" will expand to 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]