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New RADSAFE procedures - READ AND SAVE!
NEW RADSAFE PROCEDURES
In the change of servers for the Radsafe mailing list, a few changes will
occur. I have tried to minimize the number of changes needed - I think that
absolutely everyone agrees that Melissa Woo and the UIUC staff did a superb
job of running this list from the beginning until now. My goal is to do
things as similarly as possible, making the change as easy as possible for
users, and just not screwing anything up too much. There are a few changes
due to differences in the list software; most of the functions of the list
are retained, but procedures for performing some of the functions are
different. **PLEASE** read all of the following information, and it would be
a good idea to save it somewhere for future reference. Please also send
questions about any of this to me privately, not to the list. If there is
some issue that I think everyone needs to hear about, I'll post it.
1) The new address for postings is radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu Starting
Friday, March 2 at 4:00 p.m. U.S. Central Standard Time, this address should
be working.
2) The new address for account maintenance (subscribing, unsubscribing,
etc.) is Majordomo@list.vanderbilt.edu The welcome message, listing all
applicable list procedures and rules is also given below. All current active
users will be subscribed to the new list (you should not need to
resubscribe). Postponed users will be notified by private e-mail that they
may resubscribe. I will send that announcement once or twice more over a 2
week period; after that, if I receive a bounced message, I will assume that
the account is dead.
3) On the new list, if you just choose <Reply>, the response will go by
default ONLY to the person who posted, NOT the entire Radsafe mailing list.
You need to choose <Reply All> to post to the list. Hopefully this will cut
down on the inadvertent personal postings that occur from time to time.
4) There will be no "Postpone" feature on the new list. You will need to
unsubscribe and resubscribe if you wish to shut off your mail for a period.
This is mechanically no more difficult than the use of the Postpone feature,
and has the same effect.
5) There will still be a "Digest" option for the list - but you will need to
actually subscribe to a different address (rather than just changing an
option for the same address). Subscribe to
radsafe-digest@list.vanderbilt.edu You will get all of the same posts as do
the people on the regular (undigested? undigestable? indigestion?) list.
List members currently subscribed in Digest mode will be automatically
subscribed to the digest list, you also will not need to resubscribe.
6) I do not have any further information at present about the archives; this
will be the subject of another mailing in the near future.
I will take this opportunity to re-emphasize a couple of important rules.
People generally are doing a great job of following these rules, but there
are a couple of recurring problems. Please stay on the topic of radiation
protection. Please quote only as much of a previous post as is needed for
clarity in interpreting your response. Please do NOT include encoded files
or file attachments, the information just appears as garbage - text only,
please, and switch off your HTML format setting if possible.
Otherwise, keep that helpful information coming. The list is clearly a
valuable resource for the field, and your participation is the reason why!
Mike Stabin
Vanderbilt University
WELCOME MESSAGE
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Welcome to the Radsafe mailing list!
Please save this message for future reference. Thank you.
If you ever want to remove yourself from this mailing list,
you can send mail to <Majordomo@list.vanderbilt.edu> with the following
command in the BODY of your email message (no subject line):
unsubscribe radsafe
or from another account, besides <your e-mail>
unsubscribe radsafe <your e-mail>
To receive the DIGEST version of radsafe, subscribe to
radsafe-digest@list.vanderbilt.edu instead of the above address.
To temporarily stop radsafe mailings, e.g. while on travel or vacation,
unsubscribe from the list and resubscribe when you return.
If you ever need to get in contact with the owner of the list,
(if you have trouble unsubscribing, or have questions about the
list itself) send email to <owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu> .
Here's the general information for the list you've subscribed to,
in case you don't already have it:
[Last updated on: Thu March 1 10:04:28 US/Central 2001]
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The Radiation Safety Distribution list is an electronic mailing
list for Health Physicists, Medical Physicists, Radiological
Engineers and others who have a professional interest in matters
related to Radiation Protection. The list address is
radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu.
The current RADSAFE list-owner is Michael Stabin,
owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
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Guidelines for RADSAFE participation:
1. Please keep in mind that RADSAFE is for the discussion of issues
related to radiation protection. Messages which do not add substantive
content to the discussion are not appreciated. Flames, coarse language,
and negative personal comments about members of the list or others
are unprofessional and never appropriate.
2. Quote only enough text from the original message to make
your message meaningful. Lengthy messages, or posts with many
levels of quoting waste bandwidth and are difficult to read.
3. DO NOT post encoded files or file attachments to RADSAFE.
4. If your response is of interest to only one recipient, send it via
private e-mail, not to RADSAFE.
5. Include your e-mail address somewhere in the body of your message
so that people can respond to you directly rather than clutter the
list. Not all e-mail clients are capable of retrieving return
addresses from message headers.
6. Do not send commands intended for the listserver to RADSAFE.
Commands for subscribing, unsubscribing, etc., should be
sent to majordomo@list.vanderbilt.edu .
7. Commercial postings are not allowed on RADSAFE with the
following exceptions:
-Postings of meeting announcements and educational opportunities
by non-profit and not-for-profit organizations are allowed.
Posts are not to exceed 25 lines.
-Postings of job advertisements. Posts are not to exceed 25 lines.
The list-owner reserves the right to final determination of
the appropriateness of a given posting or frequency of posting.
8. E-mail accounts which bounce large quantities of error messages
back to our server may be unsubscribed. If you feel that
you have been unsubscribed inadvertently, simply try resubscribing.
9. Opinions expressed on the list are solely those of the individual
authors unless otherwise indicated. Individual messages are
considered to be copyrighted by their respective authors; however,
the archives are considered to be copyrighted by the list owner.
10. If you have questions or problems with RADSAFE that you can't
solve, e-mail me at owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu, not through
the RADSAFE mailing list.
Thanks in advance for your cooperation!
Michael Stabin, owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
RADSAFE List-owner/manager
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