Thread Name: How to retrieve previously posted e-mail messages From: Scot Kamins <kamins@removed> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:12:41 -0700 Unless you've been in the listServ since late March of 2001, you've already missed some interesting discussions on the ListServ. Luckily, you can retrieve messages going back to the beginning. Messages are archived in files, each one holding a month's worth of messages. To retrieve a file, you send a message to the listServe using the get command and ask for one or more files by name. Majordomo@algol.owu.edu messages follow a consitent format, so asking for a file is easy. Here's the structure: get modlib modlib.<yearYear ><monthMonth > So to retrieve all the messages posted in the month of April 2001 (or if the month isn't over all the messages posted so far), you'd send an e-mail to Majordomo@algol.owu.edu with the message get modlib modlib.0104 The message is a command to the listServe. It means "Go to the archives for the special group called 'modlib' and retrive the file called 'modlib.0104' and send it to me." If you wanted to get all the messages from both March and April, you'd repeat the command using the format for March (03). Your e-mail would look like this: get modlib modlib.0103 get modlib modlib.0104 The file(s) you get back contains the complete text of all e-mail messages, including headers and any HTML information the files may contain. Try it! -------------------------------------