At 5:49 PM -0400 4/16/01, David Bovill is rumored to have typed:

Hi help required. From the manual it says you can autosend files to new subscribers by creating a "subscribe.files" file?

Is there an example file I can look at? What sort of file is this???

This text file simply contains archive server commands. Of course, it's always a good idea to understand how the archive server works and what it can do (experimentation is a good idea here), but a basic subscribe.files file might contain:

get FAQ get posting_rules.txt quit

(Ok, ok, so the quit command isn't necessary.)

You can use it for cool things...like, copy the latest issue of a digest file into your archive directory using a consistant name, and send that to new subscribers.

Charlie