AMIS-L Listserv
AMIS-L is a Listserv® email forum for members of the American Musical Instrument Society (AMIS) and designated others. It was established following the international joint conference of AMIS, the Galpin Society, and CIMCIM at the National Music Museum in Vermillion, South Dakota, in May 2006 to facilitate continuing informal communications among members.
AMIS-L is provided as a voluntary service of the American Musical Instrument Society, the University of Kentucky, and , your Moderator. The owner of record is Dwight Newton, of the University of Kentucky School of Music. It is open only to members of AMIS and others deemed by AMIS or the list Moderator to be appropriate, including members of the Galpin Society and CIMCIM.
POLICIES AND GUIDELINES
The list Moderator does not screen mail before it is distributed to the list. When you send mail it is immediately distributed to the entire list membership. Please make sure your message says what you intend before sending.
Please keep message topics consistent with the goals and purpose of AMIS ("To promote better understanding of all aspects of the history, design, construction, restoration, and usage of musical instruments in all cultures and from all periods"). The Moderator may at times suggest that discussions not related to musical instruments be taken off-list.
While a certain amount of social banter is to be expected, you should only respond to a message if you have something useful to add. For example, unless specifically asked for support for an idea, a response of "I agree," "Yes!" etc., is not useful to dialog and simply fills the inbox of list members.
As usual, it is best to avoid sensitive subjects such as religion and politics unless they are consistent with the goals and purpose of AMIS (which is entirely possible).
Email lists are not public forums. While we have no interest in restricting dialog, be aware that AMIS, the University of Kentucky, and the list Moderator all have complete authority to remove individuals from the list or to remove the service entirely for any reason whatsoever. AMIS-L is explicitly NOT a privilege of membership in AMIS, but is an external service provided by volunteers.
We hope you will take advantage of the broad expertise of our members. This list will only be as useful as you make it.
To Subscribe/Resign from the List
When you subscribe to AMIS-L, we will check your name against the AMIS/Galpin membership rolls for verification. When verified, you will receive complete information on using AMIS-L to communicate with other members. You may also refer to this page if you lose the original communications.
To subscribe, address an email to:
LISTSERV@lsv.uky.edu
with the following (and nothing else) in the body of your message:
subscribe AMIS-L <Your Name>
Enter your actual name instead of <Your Name>. Upon verification of your membership in AMIS or the Galpin Society, the list moderator will approve your subscription and you will be sent a welcome message with instructions on using the Listserv and also a welcome message.
IF YOU NEED HELP:
AMIS-L is provided by the University of Kentucky (UK). Your list administrator and Moderator is Dwight Newton, Public Information Officer for the UK School of Music (and an organologist). Any questions regarding your list membership or technical problems should be addressed to .
TO SEND MAIL TO THE LIST:
To send a message to all the people currently subscribed to the list, just send mail to:
This is called "sending mail to the list," because you send mail to a single address and LISTSERV makes copies for all the people who have subscribed. This address (AMIS-L@LSV.UKY.EDU ) is also called the "LIST address." You must never try to send any command (see below) to that address, as it would be distributed to all the people who have subscribed.
SENDING COMMANDS TO THE LISTSERV:
All commands must be sent to the "LISTSERV address," LISTSERV@LSV.UKY.EDU. It is very important to understand the difference between the two. MAIL goes to people, COMMANDS go to machines. MAIL goes to the LIST address, COMMANDS go to the LISTSERV address. If you send a command to the LIST address, everyone on the list will see your command (which is annoying) and your command will not be implemented.
COMMAND SYNTAX:
To send a command to LISTSERV, address an email to LISTSERV@LSV.UKY.EDU with your command as the only text within the BODY of you email. Your subject header will be ignored. You should delete any signature text that may be included in your message body automatically by your email program. (If it doesn't make sense to the LISTSERV, it will be ignored, but there is the possibility of certain extraneous text causing an error.)
RESIGN FROM THE LIST (SIGNOFF):
You may leave the list at any time by sending a "SIGNOFF AMIS-L" command to LISTSERV@LSV.UKY.EDU.
CONFIRM RECEIPT:
You can also tell LISTSERV to confirm the receipt of messages you send to the list. If you do not trust the system, send a "SET AMIS-L REPRO" command and LISTSERV will send you a copy of your own messages, so that you can see that the message was distributed and did not get damaged on the way. After a while you may find that this is getting annoying, especially if your mail program does not tell you that the message is from you when it informs you that new mail has arrived from AMIS-L. If you send a "SET AMIS-L ACK NOREPRO" command, LISTSERV will mail you a short acknowledgement instead, which will look different in your mailbox directory. With most mail programs you will know immediately that this is an acknowledgement you can read later. Finally, you can turn off acknowledgements completely with "SET AMIS-L NOACK NOREPRO".
Following instructions from the list owner, your subscription options have been set to "REPRO SUBJECTHDR" rather than the usual LISTSERV defaults. For more information about subscription options, send a "QUERY AMIS-L" command to LISTSERV@LSV.UKY.EDU.
Contributions sent to this list are automatically archived. You can get a list of the available archive files by sending an "INDEX AMIS-L" command to LISTSERV@LSV.UKY.EDU. You can then order these files with a "GET AMIS-L LOGxxxx" command, or using LISTSERV's database search facilities. Send an "INFO DATABASE" command for more information on the latter.
This list is available in digest form. If you wish to receive the digested version of the postings, just issue a SET AMIS-L DIGEST command.
More information on LISTSERV commands can be found in the LISTSERV reference card, which you can retrieve by sending an "INFO REFCARD" command to LISTSERV@LSV.UKY.EDU.