remmers
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Mar 1 09:57 UTC 1998 |
A good way to find out how active a conference is, and what's
been happening in it recently -- without "officially" joining
it -- is to join it in observer mode and read recent responses.
The dialog goes like this:
Ok: join foobar
You are not a member of foobar. What do you want
to do? observe
Ok: read since -30
Specifying "observe" means that no participation file is created
and you can only read, not post. The command "read since -30"
displays all responses posted in the last 30 days. You can replace
the 30 with whatever number of days seems suitable, of course.
If you decide that you want to participate in the conference,
you can join it again and specify "join" instead of "observe".
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