Subject: [SIR-Mail] No. 1: Mail Server for the SIRGAS Community
From: Wolfgang Seemueller

********************************************************************************
SIR Electronic Mail        Mon Sep 18 15:31:34 CEST 2006        Message No. 0001
********************************************************************************

Author:  Wolfgang Seemueller, IGS RNAAC SIR/DGFI
Subject: Mail Server for the SIRGAS Community
 
Mail Server for the SIRGAS Community
----------------------------------

Dear colleagues,

the IGSMail and IGSReport Mail Services, designed at the University of
Berne and run by the IGS Central Bureau at JPL, have certainly
contributed to the success of the International GNSS Service for
Geodynamics (IGS) because they provide an easy-to-use and fast message 
distribution system for all IGS-interested parties. This was the
motivation behind the proposal of Wolfgang Seemueller brought forward
at the SIRGAS Workshop of Working Group 1 in Rio de Janeiro, August 16
to 18, 2006, to develop a similar service for the SIRGAS community:

SIRMail:  A mail exploder to distribute informations e.g. about

          - new procedures
          - network problems
          - data problems
          - SIRGAS station problems
          - upcoming meetings
          - ...

          to all SIRGAS sites, data and analysis centers and other
          interested parties

Each individual message will be numbered for easy reference.

The IGS Regional Network Associate Analysis Centre SIRGAS (IGS RNAAC SIR)
agreed to develop and install the necessary software.


The rules to use this mail service are as follows:
-----------------------------------------------------

- Mails sent to 

       sirmail@dgfi.badw.de

  are automatically distributed to all addresses in the respective mailing
  list maintained by the IGS RNAAC SIR.

- The first non-blank line in the mail message  b o d y  has to be an 
  ”Author line”, i.e. it has to start with the text ”Author:”, as seen in
  the current example

- The subject field in the mail  h e a d e r  has to be non-blank. It will
  automatically be inserted into the message  b o d y  right after the
  author line by the mail server

- Mails not conforming to these rules are not distributed, the mail
  administrator may reply with a corresponding message

- Allow for up to an hour for the automatic redistribution of the message

- Each mail message will be preceded by a numbered header, similar to the
  IGSMail headers, thus each distributed mail can later be referenced
  using the automatically assigned mail number

- An index file and the individual messages are also available on the DGFI
  anonymous ftp account:

  Internet:   ftp.dgfi.badw-muenchen.de
  User:       anonymous
  Password:   your email address
  Directory:  /pub/gps/DGF/sirmail
  Files:      sirmail.NNNN, sirmail.index
              (NNNN: message number)

  or via World Wide Web (WWW):                                     

  URL:         ftp://ftp.dgfi.badw-muenchen.de/    or directly  
               ftp://ftp.dgfi.badw-muenchen.de/pub/gps/DGF/sirmail/
  
- Recipients of the current message have already been included into the
  SIRMail distribution list. To subscribe/unsubscribe from the mail server
  or to change the address please send a mail to

           Wolfgang Seemueller (seemueller@dgfi.badw.de)

I want to add another proposal: it is possible to install an SIReport
mail exploder to distribute periodical reports, such as

        - weekly/monthly reports of SIRGAS data analysis
        - reports about data holdings of data centres
        - ...

Please tell me (seemueller@dgfi.badw.de) your opinion about such an
additional mail service, thank you.

Kind regards,

Wolfgang Seemueller, IGS RNAAC SIR/DGFI

From: &#8221;W. Seemueller (EDC)&#8221; <seemuell@dgfi.badw.de>
********************************************************************************