Boogie-talk Info Page

Boogie-talk is a mailing list devoted to guitars, guitar amplifiers, guitar effects, guitar speakers, guitar pickups, guitar technique and other guitar-related information. We also sometimes talk about basses, bass amps, etc., recording, cars, philosophy and marriage, but usually we do the guitar thing.

The first boogie-talk was created by Graham Spice on liberty.uc.wlu.edu. The original boogie-talk was created as a forum to discuss Mesa-Boogie equipment, but eventually it evolved into a place where nearly all guitar topics were/are discussed. This original boogie-talk list still exists, although there appears to be no one at the helm. After a series of "blackouts" where the list went down for a few days for no discernible reason, I decided to create a "backup" boogie-talk list. This was not a power play on my part, I just wanted a semi-reliable list for my daily fix of guitar info. As of now, it appears that the majority of boogie-talk users are using the backup list, so I guess it is now the "main" list, for now anyway.

The list is distributed via majordomo software on a Sun Sparcstation at Auburn University. Majordomo is free software and you get what you pay for. It does work and the good outweighs the bad, so for now we will continue to use it. Users can subscribe and unsubscribe (along with other functions) from boogie-talk via email. All commands are sent to majordomo@mail.auburn.edu. I get asked the same questions regularly, so I decided to put some of the most requested information on this page.

Subscribing To boogie-talk

  • Send an email message to majordomo@mail.auburn.edu
  • Type the message:

    subscribe boogie-talk

Unsubscribing From boogie-talk

  • Send an email message to majordomo@mail.auburn.edu
  • Type the message

    unsubscribe boogie-talk

Posting messages to boogie-talk

Send your message to boogie-talk@mail.auburn.edu

Digests

If you are a subscriber to boogie-talk and would like to receive one message per day containing all of the boogie-talk messages from the previous day (as opposed to receiving a series of individual messages), do the following:
  • Send an email message to majordomo@mail.auburn.edu
  • Type the message

    unsubscribe boogie-talk
    subscribe boogie-talk-digest
If you are already in digest mode and you would like to go back to non-digest mode, do the following:
  • Send an email message to majordomo@mail.auburn.edu
  • Type the message

    unsubscribe boogie-talk-digest
    subscribe boogie-talk
The digests are sent out once a day at 6:55 a.m. CST.

Getting Help

  • Send an email message to majordomo@mail.auburn.edu
  • Type the message

    help

Misc Thoughts

  • All commands should be on one line and not wrapped to two lines. If your command gets wrapped to two lines, the list computer will think it is two commands and will probably not do what you want. Some broken mail systems (like Groupwise, for example) find ingenious ways to wrap your commands for you, so be careful.
  • Spell the commands correctly. Subscribe is not subscibe, susribe and so on. The software is very picky.

Finally

If all else fails, I'm here for you at swangdb@mail.auburn.edu. I should note that managing boogie-talk normally takes a backseat to "real" work here, but if you send me a message, I'll usually get back to you fairly soon. Unless you send me a message at night...or on the weekend...or if I'm out of town...or...

David Swanger

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