Contents: 1.) Web access to BEE-l
          2.) Email access to historical BEE-L discussions
          3.) How to ensure the logs are not too large to save in future
 
There are two ways now to read back issues of BEE-L.
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1. ) BEE-l can presently be read on the Worldwide Web by pointing your
brouser at http://www.internode.net:80/~allend/index.html This is a NEW
URL.
 
You can also still get there from http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~dicka
 
The National (USA) Honey Board Database is also there to brouse or download.
 
If you have web access, either by PPP and a graphical brouser or by lynx
(a UNIX brouser available on many UNIX shell accounts by typing the
command 'lynx'), this is the fast, simple way to go.
 
2.) For those with no web access, logs are also available quite
conveniently by email from
 
[log in to unmask]
 
However they only go back to 1994.
 
Due to the increasing size of recent logs and limited space on the
LISTSERV, the older logs have been displaced.
 
To have a BEE-L log emailed to you:
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Just send a message with no subject (subject lines are ignored) to
[log in to unmask] with the message
 
GET BEE-L LOGMMYY
 
Where MM is the month (ie. 05 for May) and YY is the year (ie. 95 for
1995). To get May 95, just type
 
GET BEE-L LOG9505
 
Additional logs requested can be added on up to four more lines in your
message.  Be aware of the spacing of the words (No space in LOG9505, for
example).
 
Leave out any other text -- such as .signatures.  Additional text -
other than lines with additional commands -- will trigger harmless (but
confusing to you) email error messages from the LISTSERV.
 
The log will arrive some time later in your mailbox.  Warning: logs can
be 650 K in size.
 
3.)Therefore please edit your contributions to BEE-L and leave off long sigs:
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Please, everyone, when posting to BEE-L, consider the size of your
.signature file and limit the amount of previous articles quoted to what
is necessary to understand your comments -- Thanks.  Some love their huge
ascii art sigs, but generally netiquette frowns on them.
 
Please edit out all signatures and unnecessary (irrelevant) parts of the
quoted message whern you reply, to reduce the amount of material going
into the logs. This will keep the size manageable.
 
What uses up space?  Entire blank lines use only one byte, so feel free to
use lots of blank lines if it makes your message easy to read.
 
For example the previous (empty) line used only one byte!
 
Part lines use one byte for each character visible plus one, so they are
not wasteful either.
 
The above partial line is 21 bytes because I did not add any spaces after
the '.'
 
'>' alone on a line is only two bytes.
 
However the blank spaces in signatures, used to space things out, count one
byte per space, or up to eighty bytes per line.
 
For example: my sig below uses 216 bytes (54 bytes per line times four
lines).  This is equivalent to one four line paragraph of text.
 
So, please don't quote it when you quote me.
 
I hope this info is useful and encourages more compact logs without
discouraging people from posting -- after all the posts are what make this
list interesting and useful.
 
Enjoy.
 
Allen
 
W. Allen Dick, Beekeeper                        VE6CFK
Rural Route One   Swalwell   Alberta   Canada  T0M 1Y0
Email:   [log in to unmask]    or   [log in to unmask]
Futures, Art & Honey:http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~dicka