[Paddlewise] retrieving files from PaddleWise archives

> From: Wes Boyd <boydwe_at_dmci.net>

> 
> It's interesting to download the first few Paddlewise digest archives,
> which reflect some of the early hassles and genuine concerns about walking
> out on Wavelength and setting up Paddlewise -- and some of the frank
> discussion about sponsons that went on after there wasn't a drumfire of spam.
> 
> I think the instructions on how to get the archived digest articles are on
> the web page. I know I used it last fall, and had some trouble with it, but
> can't find the e-mail transactions involved -- a new computer is part of
> the problem.

The PW website is being moved to a new server and some of the header stuff
is not set up yet so it's a bit confusing.  However, you can find the
sponson discussion that was brought to PaddleWise when it was not
possible to engage in any reasonable discussion on WaveLength at
http://www.paddlewise.net/topics/boatequip/sponson.html

If you want to see the first messages on PaddleWise (I'm not sure if these
instructions are on the website, if not, I'll get them up there), then
the best way to do that is to call up the early digests (groupings of
email messages rather than individual messages).  To do that, send
a message to paddlewise-digest-request_at_paddlewise.net with the word
   index   in the body of the message.  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_at_paddlewise.net with the following command 
typed in the body of the message:

    get v01.n001

If you want the second digest, send a message to the above address and
type the following in the body:

    get v01.n002 

And so on....

Hope this helps.

Jackie


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