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This is a canned message.  Please read it carefully and save it 
for future reference.

This list is intended to disseminate timely ticket information,
setlists, and miscellaneous "important" stuff about the Grateful
Dead.  Discussion, questions, and long rambling reviews are not
welcome here.  The goal is to allow busy people to stay in touch.
Volume should not go beyond 2-3 messages per week on average.

Please limit any postings to purely factual information that is
likely to be of general interest.  In particular, ticket bartering
does not belong here.  If you need tickets for a sold-out show,
join Dead-Flames or read rec.music.gdead (see below).

This list is semi-moderated -- there is a small group of people
who are allowed to post directly.  Postings from anyone else go
to the service address for evaluation.  If they fit the charter
they are forwarded on.  If they do not, I usually delete them
without comment.

The USENET newsgoup rec.music.gdead is a free-for-all forum for 
Grateful Dead fans.  It contains LOTS of other stuff.
If you have questions, if you want to meet people, if you're
interested in anything remotely Dead-related, if you want to read
A LOT articles, join that one.

For info on using the service addresses, to which questions about the 
list itself and requests to be added to or deleted from it, use one
of the following:

    Internet: dead-heads-request@gdead.berkeley.edu
    Bitnet:   dh-req%gdead.berkeley.edu@ucbcmsa
    Uucp:     ...!{uunet}!gdead.berkeley.edu!dead-heads-request

Please do not use my personal address for Dead-Heads service.  Mail to
the service address goes into a separate folder, and I like it that way.

You may send mail to the entire list via one of these addresses:

    Internet: dead-heads@gdead.berkeley.edu
    Bitnet:   d-heads%gdead.berkeley.edu@ucbcmsa
    Uucp:     ...!{uunet}!gdead.berkeley.edu!dead-heads

The shorter names for the Bitnet addresses are for those Bitnet sites
which have yet to install software (BSMTP) to cope with the eight-
character limit on the user part (and the host part, for that matter).
If you're on Bitnet but you think you might be able to use one of the
Internet addresses, I think that would be preferable.

Below I include three things.  The first is information on how to
obtain the "Grateful Dead FAQ".  The second is a description of some 
other mailing lists in which you may be interested.  The third is a 
set of instructions for ordering Grateful Dead tickets by mail.

Enjoy!

    -- Mark Kraitchman

"Grateful Dead Frequently Asked Questions" are maintained on-line
and are posted regularly on rec.music.gdead/dead-flames.  A copy
is available by:

1) anonymous ftp from gdead.berkeley.edu
(pub/gdead/miscellaneous/{faq1.2,faq2.2} 

2) gopher from gdead.berkeley.edu 

3) via majordomo@gdead.berkeley.edu with the
message:
	get dead-heads faq1.2
	get dead-heads faq2.2

If you can't access the "Grateful Dead Frequently Asked Questions" 
via ftp, gopher, majordomo or ftpmail, please ask other DeadHeads 
for help.

Here's a summary of the music-related lists which reside at Berkeley.  To
subscribe to a given list, just send a request to one (not all) of the
addresses given for the list.

Info-only Grateful Dead.  Ticket info, setlists, not much else:

    Internet: dead-heads-request@gdead.berkeley.edu
    Uucp:     ...!{uunet}!gdead.berkeley.edu!dead-heads-request

Here's a short summary of another music related list of interest to
dead-heads.

For DAT (Digital Audio Tape) users.  Special emphasis on live music taping:

    Internet: dat-heads-request@fedney.near.net
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