Automated Submissions to
Direct Access Implementation
Web Site

Ed Quiroz, ORA, updated 06/23/2000 (eaq@cpuc.ca.gov)

ORA has implemented procedures for distributing e-mail to participants and automatically posting documents to the Internet Web site for the Direct Access Working Groups.

 To receive e-mail that is redistributed from these services, send an e-mail note to the following addresses with the word "subscribe" in the body of the note (without the quotes), and to stop receiving the redistributed e-mail, use the word "unsubscribe" in the body of a note (there should be no other text in these e-mail notes):

E-mail will be redistributed among participants by mailing to the following address: Web site submissions will be processed and posted automatically by our server, 22 times per day (*), instead of waiting for processing by a person, if you send them to the following e-mail address: We have also set up an area to which you can send "test" documents without having them appear as postings for the workshops; documents in the "test" area will be removed periodically (but not on the same day they were submitted). To test how the system works, you can send mail to dai-test@ora.ca.gov, then wait until the posting program runs (*) and find your submission in http://162.15.7.11/wk-group/dai/dai-test.

Our automated posting system can handle Mime attachments, but not UUEncoded documents. (If someone overlooks this and submits a UUEncoded document, you can download this decoding utility if you want to try to read it before a person finds time to correct the submission.) The automated posting system keeps attachments in their original format (e.g., MS Word), and does not automatically convert them to HTML (i.e., World Wide Web format). The posting software can handle long file names, but not file names that include spaces, number signs (#), or slashes or characters that would not be allowed in MS-DOS file names -- if you have these characters in the name of an attached file, your posting will probably be garbled when viewed by users. Also, using periods within a file name, except to separate the file extension (e.g., ".doc"), may cause problems for some Web site users.

(*) If you're curious as to when the posting program runs, it's at 7:00 AM, 8:30, 9:45, 10:30, 11:00, 11:30, 12:00, 1:00 PM, 1:30, 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, 3:30, 4:00, 4:45, 5:30, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:30, and 12:00 midnight.