For a general introduction send email to Flashback@FlashBack.COM
with 9001 in the Subject line.
(** included in this message **)
For the November 1994 contents make the Subject line: 71.00 1136 5019
For the December 1994 contents make the Subject line: 72.00 1146
For the January 1995 contents make the Subject line: 73.00 1176
For the February 1995 contents make the Subject line: 74.00
For the March 1995 contents make the Subject line: 75.00 1221
You can also use index and help in the subject line.
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9001
General FlashBack/SunFlash Information
April 1995 John J. McLaughlin, Editor/Publisher flash@flashback.com
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From: flash@flashback.com (John J. McLaughlin)
This article contains general information about the electronic
journals that I edit and publish: "SunFlash" , "FlashBack"
and "The Internet FlashBack"
I have been producing SunFlash, (also known as "The Florida
SunFlash"), for nearly six years and a half years. The new
"SunFlash" is the continuation of that journal.
When "SunFlash" grew to about 100 articles per month,
140,000+ subscribers and 30,000+ article requests per month I
decided that it was time to make some changes. For a variety
of reasons, I started the two new journals, "FlashBack" and
The Internet FlashBack" , and moved production of all three
journals to an independent company with its own resouces and
Internet domain (FlashBack.COM).
Articles that originate within Sun are posted to SunFlash. All
others articles will be posted to FlashBack which will become
a commmercially sponored e-journal in July, 1995.
Send email to flashback@flashback.com with one or more of
the following article numbers in the Subject line for more
information:
o 75.35: What is SunFlash ?
o 1222: FlashBack: A Commercial Electronic Journal for Sun Users
o 1223: Why You Should Sponsor FlashBack Articles
o 9050: FlashBack Sponsor Information (Includes rates)
o 75.00: Monthly SunFlash Summary for March, 1995
o 1221: Monthly FlashBack Summary for March, 1995
My goal, as always, is to provide useful, timely, high-quality
information to the Sun user community.
May 1st, 1995, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA
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FlashBack, Inc. is a publisher of full-text on-demand electronic
jounals. Flashback is independent of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and does
not claim to represent Sun Microsystems, Inc.
The FlashBack journals are free to all subscribers. You may share the
articles for non-profit purposes as long as you leave the copyright
notices in place. Some articles will have more restrictive copyrights.
E.g. most FAQ's may not be used for profit or modified. Please
respect such copyrights.
FlashBack is an innovative mechanism for solutions vendors to keep
the Sun community informed about their solutions in a timely and
cost-effective way.
The FlashBack journals are available through:
o Mailing lists
o USENET news
o ftp
o World Wide Web (WWW)
o E-Mail Auto-Responder
The Electronic Journals
=======================
The current SunFlash/Flashback journals are "SunFlash" ,
"FlashBack" and The Internet FlashBack"
SunFlash
Articles about Sun from Sun. The types of articles posted
here include:
o Sun Press Releases
o Edited Sun Producted Announcements (aka SunIntro)
o Sun e-newsletters (e.g. "Sun Hottest", "Hot of the
Press")
o Sunergy announcements and e-newsletters
FlashBack
Articles about Sun or of interest to the Sun community from
companies other than Sun.
The types of articles posted here include:
o Sun User Group announcemsnts
o Product announcements
o Company newsletters
o newsletter table of contents (e.g. "HPCwire",
"WEBster', "SPARCFlash")
o trade magazine table of contents (e.g. "Advanced
Systems", "Open Computing")
o Conference/Seminar/Trade-Show announcements
o Text Book announcements (Sun/UNIX/Internet/Security/Sys-Admin/Computing)
o Sponsored technical articles
The Internet Flashback
Note: the "Internet FlashBack" is posted to the
"FlashBack"
list. It is not currently a separate list. I am still considering if
this should be a separate list.
Articles of interest to the Sun community from the Internet -
and often about the Internet - are posted to this list. These
articles are usually copyrighted and may only be used for
non-profit purposes.
The types of articles posted here include:
o Sun-related Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
o CERT/Security annoucements
o Updated Internet Services List - by Scott A. Yanoff
o Internet Mall - by Dave Taylor
o Internet Services -by Kevin Savetz
o electronic newsletters (e.g. EFF's "Everybody's
Internet",
NSF's "Scout Report"
Subscribing to The Mailing Lists
================================
Subscribing and unsubscribing to the mailing lists is done via
majordomo@flashback.com or your local system administrator.
You can tell majordomo to add or delete any email address to any of
the lists. I must manually approve all requests when the requestor's
address is not the same as the address being added or deleted. Please
allow me a couple of days to approve such changes.
There are many options for each of the two main journals, SunFlash
and FlashBack. To keep the volume of email low or fixed, I offer
'digests'. Digests contain a one paragraph summary for a number of
articles. The full-text of any article can be obtained by sending email
to Flashback@FlashBack.COM with the article number in the
Subject field.
If you don't use mailtool, I suggest that you subscribe to sunflash and
flashback thus:
% mailx majordomo@flashback.com
subscribe sunflash
subscribe flashback
^D
%
If you use mailtool as your main mail reader, then subscribe to the
mailtool versions:
% mailx majordomo@flashback.com
subscribe mt-sunflash
subscribe mt-flashback
^D
%
If you are adding someone else, include their email address at the end
of the subscribe line. (see later example)
There are more options:
Daily
will have some articles and some digests
Weekly
one digest per week
Monthly
one digest per month
usa
US prices are only sent to those people in the USA.
You can indicate that you are in the USA by
subscribing to this list.
Full
no digests - all of the articles. Upto 100 per month.
Sometimes there will be bursts of 5 to 15 articles.
MultiMedia
Article body has one paragraph for each article and the
articles are included as attachements. MailTool and
MIME versions are available.
The names for the mailing lists are
sunflash
Daily SunFlash
mt-sunflash
Daily SunFlash, MailTool format (all articles)
mime-sunflash
Daily SunFlash, MIME format (all articles)
sunflash-w
Weekly SunFlash
sunflash-m
Monthly SunFlash
sunflash-f
Full SunFlash
sunflash-f-usa
Full SunFlash for US subscibers
mt-sunflash-w
Mailtool SunFlash Weekly
mime-sunflash-w
MIME SunFlash Weekly
flashback
Daily FlashBack
mt-flashback
Daily FlashBack, MailTool format (all articles)
mime-flashback
Daily FlashBack, MIME format (all articles)
flashback-w
Weekly FlashBack
flashback-m
Monthly FlashBack
flashback-f
Full FlashBack
mt-flashback-w
Mailtool FlashBack Weekly
mime-flashback-w
MIME FlashBack Weekly
usa
List of US subscribers. No messages are posted to the
usa list. It is only used by the automatic response
program to decide if it should send a subscriber the US
or international version of an article. I must approve all
requests to this list as I am not allowd to make US
prices available outside of the US
sponsor
Those people who have or who may sponsor a
FlashBack article should join this list.
For example, if johnj@flashback.com wants to get one SunFlash
article per week and the daily Flashback, then the following mail
message would be send to Majordomo@FlashBack.COM
% mailx Majordomo@FlashBack.COM
Subject:
subscribe sunflash-w johnj@flashback.com
subscribe flashback johnj@flashback.com
^D
%
If johnj wants to change his flashback to the weekly version, then the
following mail message would be send to
Majordomo@FlashBack.COM
% mailx Majordomo@FlashBack.COM
Subject:
unsubscribe flashback johnj@flashback.com
subscribe flashback-w johnj@flashback.com
^D
%
If you make a change request for a different email account, the
request will be forwarded to me for approval.
To make it clear, you can have someone else added to the list by
adding their name to the subscribe line instead of yours.
Local Mailing Lists
===================
There is a large number of SunFlash and FlashBack aliases in place at
sites around the world that are used for the redistribution of the
SunFlash and Flashback journals. If you get SunFlash or FlashBack
through one of those aliases, you must direct change requests to the
administrator of that alias and not Majordomo@FlashBack.COM.
By convention, the local aliases are called sunflash@ and the admin
can be contacted at owner-sunflash@. However, not all aliases
follow these rules. Most of the local Sun offices that redistribute
SunFlash follow the convention. e.g. sunflash@sunfla.east.sun.com
and owner-sunflash@sunfla.east.sun.com
I will post the Monthly SunFlash and FlashBack articles to each of
the entries in sunflash and flashback individually. This will help you
see how SunFlash and FlashBack get to you. If you are included in an
alias that is included in a local redistribution alias, this will help but
it will still not be obvious how SunFlash gets to you. The owner of
the local redistribution alias should be able to help.
Normally I will post articles to SunFlash and FlashBack in batches
such that the real To: addresses are hidden. If you are having a
problem with unsubscribing, please send me a copy of one of the
messages that you get with the full mail headers.
USENET News
===========
The Weekly and Monthly editions of "SunFlash" , "FlashBack"
and The Internet FlashBack" are posted to the USENET newsgroup
comp.sys.sun.announce.
Some organizations automatically convert SunFlash into a local
newsgroup. Check with your local admin. For example, within Sun
Microsystems, all of the SunFlash and FlashBack articles are posted
to the Sun-only newsgroup sun.sunflash.
If you make SunFlash available within your organization as a
newsgroup, please tell me and I will update a document that I
maintain that lists SunFlash/FlashBack distributors.
FlashBack and ftp
=================
draco.nova.edu:/pub/sunflash is the primary FlashBack/SunFlash site.
There are several sites around the world that automatically mirror
the files from draco.nova.edu:/pub/sunflash -
ftp server Directory name
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draco.nova.edu pub/sunflash
sunsite.unc.edu pub/sun-info/sunflash
src.doc.ic.ac.uk sun/sunflash
ftp.uu.net systems/sun/sunflash
ftp.adelaide.edu.au pub/sun/sunflash
Three compressed tar files on the ftp-servers contain all of the
articles for the last three years:
1992.tar.Z 1.6Mb (vol 37 to 48)
1993.tar.Z 3.9Mb (vol 49 to 60)
1994.tar.Z 3.4Mb (vol 61 to 70)
You can access individual articles as files under the sunflash/1994
and sunflash/1995 directories. You can access each volume as a
single compressed tar file under the directory sunflash/1992,
sunflash/1993, sunflash/1994. and sunflash/1995 e.g. the whole of
volume 50 can be copies by fetching the 140k file
sunflash/1993/50.feb.tar.Z
FlashBack and the World Wide Web (WWW)
======================================
Starting with Vol 70 (October, 1994), the files that make up the
HTML pages for "SunFlash" , "FlashBack" and The Internet
FlashBack" are on
draco.nova.edu:/pub/sunflash/www
They can be copied into any WWW server to provide local access.
You can copy all of the HTML pages by ftp-ing the files
draco.nova.edu:/pub/sunflash/www/www.jan.95.tar.Z
(3.6Mb, last 700 articles)
draco.nova.edu:/pub/sunflash/www/www.jan.update.01.tar.Z
(350k)
You can make SunFlash and FlashBack available from your WWW
server by uncompressing and un-taring these files in order.
If you copy these files and make SunFlash/FlashBack available from
your WWW server, please send me email with your URL and I will
update my document that lists SunFlash/FlashBack distributors.
The HTML files on an ftp server can be accessed with a WWW
broswer such as Mosaic by using an ftp URL such as
ftp://draco.nova.edu/pub/sunflash/www/index.html
Suggestions for improvements in the HTML or file structure from
experienced Web Masters is encouraged!
FlashBack E-Mail Auto-Responder
===============================
You many request "SunFlash" , "FlashBack" or The Internet
FlashBack" articles by sending mail to
flashback@flashback.com.
Simply place a list of one or more
space separated article numbers in the subject line. E.g. to fetch the
October 1994 monthly editions for each of the three e-journals, send
email thus:
% mailx FlashBack@FlashBack.COM
Subject: 70.00 5013 1050
^D
%
and three articles will be returned. If you don't get a response or if
you know or suspect that your mail system does not properly set the
From: address in your mail message (e.g. by not including a full
domain name), then you can add a line email-to followed by an
email address. e.g. same example as before, but force response to
flash@tuesday.FlashBack.COM
% mailx FlashBack@FlashBack.COM
Subject: 70.00 5013 1050
email-to: flash@tuesday.FlashBack.COM
^D
%
This autoresponse program sends out 15,000 to 30,000+ articles each
month. (If I think that an article will be very popular, I post it to
everyone, and that keeps the number of requests under control!)
Requests are queued and processed every 15 minutes.
Index files from the Autoresponder
==================================
There are two index files available from the
flashback@flashback.com autoresponder. The index files can be
obtained by placing the keywords index or fullindex in the subject
line of a message to flashback@flaskback.com.
index
This is a brief index with the 100 or so most recent entries for
each of my three journals.
fullindex
This is a complete index with one line for each article for
each of my three journals. The number of entries in fullindex
as of 11/26/94:
o 269 "FlashBack"
o 8 "Internet FlashBack"
o 596 "SunFlash"
As I am converting the 1994 SunFlash articles while posting
100+ new articles each month, the fullindex will soon have
over 1000 article citations.
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9001: General FlashBack/SunFlash Information
This article contains general information about the electronic
journals that I edit and publish: "SunFlash" ,
"FlashBack" and
"The Internet FlashBack"
I produced "The Florida SunFlash" for nearly six years.
"SunFlash" is the continuation of that journal. When
"SunFlash"
grew to about 100 articles per month, 140,000+ subscribers and
30,000+ article requests per month I decided that it was time to
make some changes. For a variety of reasons, I started the two
new journals, "FlashBack" and "The Internet
FlashBack",
and moved production of all three journals to an independent
company with its own resouces and Internet domain (FlashBack.COM).
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75.35: What is SunFlash ?
This article describes the SunFlash E-Journal.
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1222: FlashBack: A Commercial Electronic Journal For Sun Users
This article describes the FlashBack E-Journal.
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1223: Why You Should Sponsor FlashBack Articles
This article explains the benefits of sponsoring FlashBack articles.
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9002: FlashBack and SunFlash Index
This article contains a one line index entry for each of the
articles posted to the electronic journals that I edit and
publish: "SunFlash" , "FlashBack" and "The
Internet FlashBack"
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9050: FlashBack Sponsor Information
This article contains detailed information for sponsors of
FlashBack articles. Annual Sponsorship and per-article fee
information is also provided.
Several Special Deals are described:
o Mailing List Management - free to Quarterly/Monthly sponsors
o Quarterly or Monthly Update
o 6, 12 and 24 Packs
A detailed comparison of FlashBack and alternatives such as:
o Advertising in a Trade Paper
o Sending a Press Release to a wire service
o Direct Mail
o Custom, Printed Newsletter
o Your own e-mail Newsletter
o Custom WWW Site
is provided.
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You may send for any of these articles by sending mail to
FlashBack@FlashBack.COM.
Include the article numbers for the the articles that you want in the
Subject line. E.g. to get a copy of 71.01 and 71.02
% mailx FlashBack@FlashBack.COM
Subject: 71.01 71.02
^D
%
To subscribe or unsubscribe, send email to Majordomo@flashback.com
unless FlashBack comes to you through a local redistribution alias.
e.g. to unsubscribe johnj@flashback.com from the standard sunflash and
flashback lists and resubscribe to the multi-media lists (mt-sunflash and
mt-flashback), I would send mail thus:
% mailx majordomo@FlashBack.COM
Subject:
unsubscribe sunflash johnj@flashback.com
unsubscribe flashback johnj@flashback.com
subscribe mt-sunflash johnj@flashback.com
subscribe mt-flashback johnj@flashback.com
^D
%
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SunFlash - A Full-Text On Demand Newsletter
John J. McLaughlin - Publisher & Editor - flash@FlashBack.COM
Tim Wells - Associate Editor - tim@FlashBack.COM
Subscriptions to Majordomo@FlashBack.COM
Article Requests to flashback@FlashBack.COM
Article Submissions to Flash@FlashBack.COM
For a general introduction send email to Flashback@FlashBack.COM
with 9001 in the Subject line.
For the November 1994 contents make the Subject line: 71.00 1136 5019
For the December 1994 contents make the Subject line: 72.00 1146
For the January 1995 contents make the Subject line: 73.00 1176
For the February 1995 contents make the Subject line: 74.00
For the March 1995 contents make the Subject line: 75.00 1221
You can also use index and help in the subject line.
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