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Subject: NEW MA HISTORY MAILING LIST
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 23:58:32 EST

New Mailing List for Massachusetts History!

Mahistory is a new listserv created to facilitate communication and
collaboration among members of the Massachusetts historical records
community. The historical records community include people and
organizations who create, use, hold, or care about historical records.

The list is an outcome of the Massachusetts Historical Records Advisory
Board (MHRAB) Strategic Planning Project. The MHRAB, administered by the
Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, William Francis Galvin,
serves the public as the central advisory board for historical records
projects and plans. The list is generously hosted by the University of
Massachusetts, Boston Computer Science Department.

If you are interested in communicating with curators, researchers, and
creators of historical records you are welcome to join the mailing list.
The list can be used to share information and ideas about the
acquisition, preservation, and use of historical records. Appropriate
areas for postings, generally speaking, are archives, records
management, education, preservation and conservation, reference and use,
and related areas.

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Subscription and Command Information

To subscribe to the list, send email to
containing the single line "subscribe" in the message body.

When you have subscribed you will receive the following information:

Welcome to the mahistory mailing list!

If you ever want to remove yourself from this mailing list, send the
following command in email to "" with the
following command in the body of your email message: "unsubscribe"

Or you can send mail to "" with the following
command in the body of your email message: "unsubscribe mahistory "

To send mail to the list, use the address

To make administrative requests, use the address


To retrieve a list of major-domo commands, send email to
with the word help in the message body.

Since the list is operated under major-domo and not "a" listserv, there
is no setmail command. Simply unsubcribe and resubscribe to the list
when you wish to discontinue list mail. For a list of other commands,
please retrieve a list of commands as noted above.

If you have any questions regarding the listserv please contact:

Lisa A. Plato

Archivist/Records Manager and mahistory mailing list Moderator

Town of Burlington
Burlington, Mass.

(please put mahistory in the subject header)

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Mailing List Policy Statement

To post messages to the MAHistory mailing list, one must be a member of
the list. The Moderator or MHRAB does not approve list membership.

Moderation

During the list's infancy, moderation will take the form of gentle
facilitation. Members who make habitually inappropriate postings will be
emailed off-list. If problems persist, the Moderator reserves the right
to remove problematic members from the list. The Moderator does not
pre-approve messages posted to the list.

Statement of Purpose

The purpose of this list is to facilitate communication and
collaboration among members of the Massachusetts historical records
community. The historical records community includes people and
organizations who create, use, hold, or care about historical records.
The community includes academic, amateur, and family historians;
architects, historic preservationists and owners of historic buildings;
environmentalists, scientists, and researchers of all types; primary,
secondary, and university educators and students; government officials,
business and not-for-profit managers; archivists, librarians, and
curators; and interested members of the general public.

The list can be used to share information and ideas about the
acquisition, preservation, and use of historical records. Appropriate
areas for postings, generally speaking, are archives, records
management, education, preservation and conservation, reference and use,
and related areas.

For specific questions relating to Massachusetts Historical records,
please post to the mahistory mailing list. Contact Lisa Plato at
for more information.

As the listserv matures, the Moderator reserves the right to adjust the
purpose and content of the list. Any changes to this statement of
purpose will be posted to this list, related lists, and announced in
newsletters of historical records organizations.

List commands

To subscribe to the list, send email
containing the single line subscribe in the message body.

To unsubscribe to the list, send email
containing the single line unsubscribe in the message body.

To send mail to the list, use the address

To make administrative requests, use the address


To retrieve a list of major-domo requests, send mail to
mahistory-request containing the single line help.

This list of commands includes:

CommandResultget [<list>] <filename>Get a file related to <list>
index [<list>]Return an index of files you can "get" for <list>which
[<address>]Find out which lists you (or <address> if specified) are on
who [<list>]Find out who is on the named <list>info [<list>]Retrieve
the general introductory information for the named <list>listsShow the
lists served by this Majordomo serverhelpRetrieve this messageend
Stop processing commands (useful if your mailer adds a signature)

Since this list is operated under major-domo and not listserv, there is
no setmail command. Simply unscribe and resubscribe to the list when you
wish to discontinue list mail.

Enjoy the list!

Questions and comments can be directed to list moderator: Lisa A. Plato
at .

Please put mahistory in the subject line.

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