Retrieving PW Archives

Retreiving Archives from PaddleWise

If you are a subscriber to the PaddleWise list, you may retrieve back articles from the discussions which have not been included on the website by following these instructions:

To retrieve the digests from the discussions, send a message to paddlewise-digest-request@paddlewise.net with only this word in the body of the message - index

You will receive back a long list of digests that starts out like this:

>>>> index
.:
total 94836
-rw-rw----   1 majordom majordom   37204 Jan 28  1998 v01.n001
-rw-rw----   1 majordom majordom   36095 Jan 28  1998 v01.n002
-rw-rw----   1 majordom majordom   35678 Jan 29  1998 v01.n003
-rw-rw----   1 majordom majordom   34321 Feb  4  1998 v01.n004

(etc.)

To retrieve the first digest, send another message to paddlewise-digest-request@paddlewise.net with the following command typed in the body of the message:

    get v01.n001

To retrieve the second digest, send a message to the above address and type the following in the body:

    get v01.n002

And so on....