I see references to archive files and long numbers. What are they?
ProMED-mail Moderators often refer to past postings that have been archived. It is helpful to retrieve these archived posts to gain additional insight into the current situation. For example: “[see also: Potato late blight: global threat, 19970217230023]” This refers to the archive file named “19970217230023.” To fetch this archive file by e-mail, send a message to majordomo@promedmail.org and in the body of the message, type: get promed 19970217230023 Also, some extra-long archived files have alphabetical instead of numeric filenames. In those cases, the command is, for example, get promed cyclospora You may include multiple ‘get’ commands in the message; be sure that they are on separate lines.
