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Hello to all, and welcome to the new members who have joined over the past few days.

Recently a friend in Adelaide sent me a new case (Angelopolous v. Sabatino) in which the SC of South Australia (Full Ct) allowed a claim for improvements to property on the basis of free acceptance (or "acceptance", as Doyle CJ seemed to prefer calling it).

In consultation with the computer people here, I have made some modifications to this mailing list which will add a new level of functionality. It can now be used for the distribution of text files.

The way it works is this. There is now a directory on the server which is linked to this list. Any files in that directory are accessible by members of this mailing list.

In order to determine which files are accessible, you need to send an email to the server at

majordomo@majordomo.srv.ualberta.ca

Leave the subject line blank, and in the body of the message put

index restitution

The server will send you an email with a list of files available. (It is a bit messy because it is a UNIX based server.) The first item on the list is "restfiles". That is not a file, but rather the directory in which all of the other files are located. The files are listed after that. Right now, there is only one; it is called "sabatino.txt". So you don't really need to perform the "index" command unless you want to try it out.

Now comes the good part. You can order that file and receive it by email. Again, you send a command to the server, at

majordomo@majordomo.srv.ualberta.ca

Leave the subject line blank, and in the body of the message put

get restitution restfiles/sabatino.txt

The command is "get"; "restitution" is the name of this mailing list; and the "restfiles/sabatino.txt" is the pathname to the file you want. The server will then email the file to you. It is about 15 pages long and so it will be broken into two parts; in other words you will get two separate emails. But you will have the case in electronic form.

This feature has a lot of potential. If anyone has any sort of information in electronic form which they would like to make available to the other members of the list, simply drop me a line and we can add it to this directory.

The "info" file which everyone gets upon joining has now been modified to include information about this new function. If you wish, you can get an updated copy by sending an email to the server (majordomo@majordomo.srv.ualberta.ca), writing in the body of the message

info restitution

Remember that if you want to send a posting to go to other members (rather than a command to the server), you need to send it to

restitution@majordomo.srv.ualberta.ca

That's it for now!