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You have joined H-MAC, an international electronic discussion group that has been set up at the Michigan State University to provide a forum for scholars in the humanities and social sciences to discuss the uses of the Macintosh for their research and general needs. H-MAC is the official listserve of the History and Macintosh Society (HMS), which is a Macintosh Users Group registered with Apple Computer, Inc. The History and Macintosh Society was founded circa 1990. H-MAC is moderated by Kittrell Rushing and Dan Chase of the University of Tennessee-Chatanooga, and has an international editorial board broadly representative of the state of scholarship.
The primary purpose of H-MAC is to focus on the needs of academics in the humanities and social sciences because the computer press and Macintosh user groups are too general or too business-oriented in their coverage of the Macintosh. Most H-Mac mail that you will receive consists of messages sent to our discussion list. H-Mac will also publish news, reports, and reviews of new hardware, software, and general developments in the Macintosh industry and personal computing industry as they pertain to academic users of the Macintosh. Some material may be forwarded from other lists (such as TidBits) or be promotional material received from Apple or Macintosh developers if it is deemed of particular interest to the list.
Subscribers will write in with questions, comments, and reports-- and are encouraged to share their knowledge and experience with us. Reports on novel uses of programs for research are particularly welcome. We expect many messages will be of the "how can I do this with my computer?" variety and also "where can I locate such-and-such?" Please send them in, for someone on the list will be able to help. H-MAC will commission reviews of software, hardware, and new computer books. Items posted on H-MAC are in the public domain, and may be copied, forwarded, re-disseminated, and/or downloaded provided credit is given the original author.
Subscribers of H-MAC are official members of HMS and entitled to benefits only accorded to user group members. Best of all, subscription is free.
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NOTE: All of the following commands must be sent as the first line of the message body. They may however be sent in lower-case letters or a combination of upper and lower-case letters.
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Alternately, you may send an email message to listserv@h-net.msu.edu:
with "sub H-MAC" followed by your firstname, surname, and school in the message body
Example: SUB H-MAC Leslie Jones Southern Jersey U.
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SET H-MAC NOMAIL
After vacation, you can resume by sending to listserv@h-net.msu.edu
SET H-MAC MAIL
If you find the flow of messages to be excessive, you may instead receive periodic "digests" by sending to listserv@h-net.msu.edu
SET H-MAC DIGESTS
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SET H-MAC NODIGESTS
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Note that mail designed for everyone to read is sent to H-MAC@h-net.msu.edu, while mail intended to change parameters of one's subscription must be sent to listserv@h-net.msu.edu. If you have difficulty unsubscribing, or for any other matter concerning the operation of the list, you may contact one of the moderators:
Kittrell Rushing (krushing@cecasun.utc.edu)
Dan Chase (Dan-Chase@UTC.EDU)
Contributions to H-MAC can be short questions or long documents. Please sign your name and email address to each contribution (we will add the name/address otherwise.)
H-MAC will be moderated to filter out extraneous messages (like requests for subscription) and items that do not belong on H-MAC. They may belong somewhere else, or in the judgment of the editor they do not aid the scholarly dialog. The moderator will not alter the meaning of the message (but will, if necessary, add name and e-address). All contributions to H-MAC will become part of the public domain and can be freely used, printed, copied or retransmitted if credit is given to the original author.
All messages sent to our list are automatically archived. The easiest way to search for one is to use the search page at http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl which allows searches for individual messages but also gives access to monthly logs.
You can also interrogate the server manually via email: send a note to listserv@h-net.msu.edu with the following command:
Index H-MAC
To obtain a specific document, send Listserv the command
GET filename filetype
Thus, to obtain this document (entitled "H-MAC Welcome") from the fileserver, send a note to Listserv with the command
GET H-MAC Welcome
H-Net sponsors other lists pitched to academics including H-URBAN (urban history), H-WOMEN (womens history), HOLOCAUS (Holocaust history), H-DIPLO (Diplomatic & international relations), H-RURAL (rural and agricultural), H-LAW (US legal and constitutional history), H-South (US South), H-CivWar (US Civil War), H-Ethnic (ethnicity and immigration), H-LatAm (Latin American), H-Labor (labor history), H-Durkhein (European social thought), H-TEACH (methods of teaching college history), H-Rhetor (history of rhetoric) and H-US-Pol (US political history). Other lists are being started up now.
Date created: 7/01/96 Last modified: 7/01/01
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