Johnny Email List FAQ
If you have trouble, please write Bill Fant directly at bfant@charm.net
WHAT IS THE JOHNNY EMAIL LIST?
The Johnny Email List is a forum in which alumni of St. John's College may discuss whatever they like. Online seminars are held, current events are discussed, book and movie recommendations are given, recipes are shared, and arguments are had, among other types of discussion. The Johnny Email List had several founders, notably Owen Goldin (A '79) and Rich Green (SF '87).
Send email to majordomo@charm.net.
The body of the message should contain either the phrase "subscribe johnny-digest" (without the quotes) or "subscribe johnny" (again, no quotes). Subscribe to the digest if you would like to receive less mail. Digests are automated compilations of the most recent 12-15 posts. The lists averages over two a day. Subscribing to individual posts ("subscribe johnny") produces more mail, but also allows one to participate in the conversation with more ease.
To post messages to the list the address to write to is:
Please make sure your lines are fewer than 75 characters long.
Essentially, there is no such policy. What you post is what goes out. There is no editor and no moderator. If your post does not go through, first check that you have in fact sent it to the correct address.
However, posts in excess of 10k bytes get "held at the gate" for review, as a security measure. Posts that large are relatively rare, and having a limit in place prevents a mailbomb from being sent to the list. In most cases these posts will be forwarded to the list as soon as a review can occur.
A few caveats: we must obey the laws of the land including fair use of copyrights. Please keep excerpts to a limit of 500 words at the maximum, and in no event send the full text of articles to the list without receiving prior permission from the author. I will intervene in cases of repeated posting of copyrighted material to the list, spamming (sending massive amounts of useless information), and other activities that threaten the operation of the resources used by this list. Bomb threats and the like will be taken seriously; don't send them even in jest.
Please do not quote the full text of a digest when responding to a post. This wastes diskspace in the computers of 200+ users, as well as bandwidth. Such posts almost always will be larger than 10 kb, and will be held at the gate. Similarly, please do not post chain letters to the list; they waste large amounts of bandwidth.To use majordomo, place the command you'd like to execute in the body of a message (the subject is ignored) and send it to:
majordomo@charm.net
Some commands --
to subscribe receiving digests:
subscribe johnny-digest
to subscribe receiving individual posts:
subscribe johnny
It is OK to subscribe to both digest and individual posts.
to unsubscribe:
unsubscribe johnny OR unsubscribe johnny-digest
to get an archived digest:
Thanks to Mr. Billington for pointing this out to me, particularly for those of you who get the johnny list by individual post and not by digest now have a means of determining the issue/volume numbers of recent issues of the digest, for purposes of retrieving them from our limited archives.
Send email to ME (bfant@charm.net) with subject line "archive sjc" without the quotes. A list of all digests currently available online will be returned. Identify the issues you want and send mail to:
majordomo@charm.net
For this second mail, the subject line is irrelevant. Commands to majordomo are issued with the text of the body of the message. You may request multiple digest issues with one mailing. Example:
get johnny-digest v11.n001
get johnny-digest v11.n002
end
Note that the volume number henceforth will correspond with the number of the month of the year. The concluding line with 'end' is particularly important if you use a .sig file or if your email provider uses one, as, for instance, yahoo and hotmail do. The end command tells majordomo that the email contains no more commands to process.
If mail from your site bounces continually, it may be necessary to remove your name from the list. If you mysteriously stop receiving mail it may be necessary to resubscribe.
It will save me great amounts of time if folks try to follow the directions before seeking human intervention. Thanks. Please enjoy.
Rare pic of list member & senior admin. official
Photos -- J-List Homecoming Dinner