An exciting new development has made it possible for readers of this list
to retrieve lots of information directly from LISTSERV without having to
request it from the list. Thanks very much to Wayne for putting this
together, I think it will prove to be of great benefit to the list.
In the introductory message which everyone received when subscribing to
this list, you were given information on how to access the archives of
HOCKEY-L. The same method can now be used to request team schedules and
other information.
To see what files are available, send a message to [log in to unmask]
or [log in to unmask] and in the body, type
GET HOCKEY-L FILELIST
This will give you all files in the archives, including compliations of old
HOCKEY-L messages.
The files currently available include the following. Each can be
requested by sending mail to listserv and placing
GET <identifier1> <identifier2>
in the body. The identifiers along with file descriptions are given below.
For example, to request the rules changes file, use
GET 9293RULE CHANGES
ID#1 ID#2 DESCRIPTION
HOCKEY-L ACHA1992 ACHA Standings, teams, news
9293RULE CHANGES NCAA Rule Changes
9293MSC TVSCHED MidWest Sports Channel Schedule
9293NESN TVSCHED NESN TV Schedule
9293HE PREVIEW Hockey East Pre-Season Preview
9293ROST CCHA CCHA Rosters as of 10-5-92
9293COMP SCHEDULE Division I Composite Schedule
9293TEAM SCHEDULE Division I Team Schedules (all)
The last two are huge and have been placed there directly without being
sent to the list. I did not want folks who don't want to see them to
have them flood their mailboxes. So, GET 9293COMP SCHEDULE will get you
my completed 1992-93 DivI Composite. Some notes on that:
*It does include UAH and Mankato (all games) although the two-letter code
has been changed to reflect that these teams are not DivI.
*The two-letter codes after the games stand for the following:
CC-CCHA league game
EC-ECAC league game
EX-exhibition game (not counted in overall record)
HE-Hockey East league game
NC-nonconference game
NI-non DivI game (vs DivII, DivIII, Canadian, etc.)
WC-WCHA league game
The codes help my standings program determine whether a game should be
counted in league standings and allow me to include exhibitions while not
counting these games in overall records.
*Notes exist after some games to tell whether the games are part of a
tourney, being played at a different arena, some times, etc. The times
are not meant to be complete and may not all be accurate. They are
Eastern time.
*On dates when tourney consolation/championships are to be played, you'll
see some teams listed more than once, i.e. Brown vs Maine/Miami and
Maine vs Brown/Lake Superior. This is so that my program can generate a
complete schedule for each team which indicates who the team's opponent
could be that day, given that they have already faced a first-round
tourney opponent. As the season goes on and the games are played, I'll
be editing my version to remove the duplicates.
*Although I worked hard to try to verify all games, there may still be
some errors. Please send me mail if you know of any corrections.
It is also possible to retrieve an individual DivI team's schedule in
the same manner. All 44 schedules are there and were generated from my
composite. Since LISTSERV identifiers are limited to 8 characters, most
teams have abbreviations that must be used when requesting their schedules.
The format is GET 9293TSCH <abbreviation> and the abbreviations are as
follows (again, these are available by GET HOCKEY-L FILELIST):
AIRFORCE Air Force KENT Kent PRINCETN Princeton
ARMY Army LSSU Lake Superior PROV-COL Providence
BC Boston College MAINE Maine RPI RPI
BG Bowling Green MERRIMAC Merrimack ST-CLOUD St Cloud
BROWN Brown MIAMI Miami ST-LAW St Lawrence
BU Boston University MICH-ST Michigan State UAA Alaska-Anch
CLARKSON Clarkson MICHIGAN Michigan UAF Alaska-Fair
COLGATE Colgate MICHTECH Michigan Tech UMLOWELL UMass-Lowell
COLORADO Colorado College MINN-DUL Minn-Duluth UNH New Hampshire
CORNELL Cornell MINNESOT Minnesota UNION Union
DENVER Denver N-DAKOTA North Dakota VERMONT Vermont
DRTMOUTH Dartmouth N-DAME Notre Dame W-MICH Western Mich
FERRISST Ferris State N-EASTRN Northeastern WISC Wisconsin
HARVARD Harvard N-MICH Northern Mich YALE Yale
ILL-CHIC Illinois-Chicago OHIO-ST Ohio State
Wayne has set this up so that I can do the replacing of certain files
like the composite myself, and I plan to put new versions in the archives
every so often as the season goes on depending on the time I have. It
may not be every week.
I think this will prove to be something that makes the list even more
useful to people and I like the idea of putting huge files like the
composite in the archives rather than sending them out to the list. And,
I think Wayne deserves a huge THANK YOU for setting this up for us.
There are many old files I have lying around that should be in the archives
as well, and as I get them uploaded to the archives, I'll send out mail
to let everyone know that they are there.
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Mike Machnik [log in to unmask] Color Voice of the Merrimack Warriors
(Any opinions expressed above are strictly those of the poster.) *HMN*
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