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What are they?

There are 2 separate eMail groups for 2101 discussions. The primary group is for general users of the GSP-2101. Discussion topics include:
Upgrade notices from Digitech
Open Question and Answer Forum
Technical help from other users and even Digitech Guru's
Tips and Tricks to utilize your 2101 better
Open forum for sharing your patches
The second eMail group is for software developers interested in developing utilities for the GSP-2101. Discussions in this group are more technical in nature and generally of little interest to casual users. Note that the majority of the discussions in this group generally are more computer programming related than the other list.

How do I join?

To join the Users eMail list, send an email message to:
majordomo@portal.com
Type the following text in the body of the message:
subscribe gsp-users
To join the Developers list, send an eMail message to:
majordomo@portal.com
Type the following text in the body of the message:
subscribe gsp-dev-users

How do I Unsubscribe (leave the mail list)?

To quit the Users eMail list, send an email message to:
majordomo@portal.com
Type the following text in the subject area OR body of the message:
unsubscribe gsp-users
To quit the Developers list, send an eMail message to:
majordomo@portal.com
Type the following text in the body of the message:
unsubscribe gsp-dev-users

to: mailserv@ecn.nl
subject: (don't care)
message body: subscribe RP-1-L

Rules of the Group (ettiquette)

First and foremost, we have been blessed with the presence of 2 Digitech employees who have been of vast help to many of us on this list. These guys (Randy Thorderson and Marc Cooper) are not here for their personal fun. They have no direct responsibility to the group and, therefore, you have no reason to demand anything from them. Please don't irritate them by nitpicking about some issue. If you have some good ideas, feel free to pass them along to them as a wish list item, but be pleasant about it. We're fortunate that these guys are here, and don't want to ruin a good thing.

Please confine your discussions to relevant topics. Limit excursions into related topics. Use your best judgement. For example, some of us developer types got a bit over zealous with programming discussions and other users decided to quit the list as a result. They simply got tired of wading through a bunch of email that they didn't care to read.

Make sure that you include a descriptive subject line for each message to the group, because, many times, users will delete a message with a subject topic that is not of interest to them. For this reason, you may also choose to send separate questions/message topics in separate messages.

When writing a message to the group address it to:

gsp-users@portal.com    (for the users group)
or to:
gsp-dev-users@portal.com   (for the developers group)
If you are on the list, you will be forwarded a copy of the message automatically, as will everyone on the list. Therefore, when replying to messages, delete the separate reference to the user who originated the message. If you do not, that person will receive 2 messages which gets irritating sometimes.

When writing messages to the list, make sure that each line ends with a carriage return (the enter key on your keyboard). Many email products being used by members of the list do not wrap the lines around. If you type a whole paragraph without hitting enter, they will see it as one line, and have to scroll way over to the right to read it. This is annoying to everyone, including those who have to manually format their mesages by hitting enter on every line. However, this is the way it is being done for now. Maybe someday Netscape and other software developers would pull their head outta the sand and add this stupid little feature. Until then, we are all going to have to bear this burden.

Finally, remember, this list is basically created, operated and owned by Steve Schow. He doesn't work at Digitech. He doesn't owe you anything. If this list craps out once in a while, you'll have to bear with him. It's not like anyone is paying for this service.

With all that nasty business behind us, I'll just say SIGN UP! Most of us have found the list to be very beneficial in inreasing our usage of the 2101.

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Written by Curtis LeMay Pastor,
CLPastor@aol.com or clpastor@ee.tamu.edu
Last revised as of Oct 3, 1997.