Mailing List
Mailing List
This www.sunnyvaleares.org server runs a mailing list for general discussion that is open to any interested hams. The Sunnyvale ARES general discussion list is called
- sares-list (@) sunnyvaleares.org
and it is sufficient to include only the list address in the e-mail distribution, there is no need to do extra Cc: to members who already get a copy of the message through the list server.
Message Archive
There is a publicly browsable archive set up for this mailing list, which is updated hourly. You may also access the archive via the list server software interface and all postings can be retrieved from there, see below.
How to subscribe and unsubscribe
The mailing list server of sunnyvaleares.org runs on a machine
that is called athm.net. Don't be confused if the list server
claims sometimes he is 'athm.net' that is just OK. And by the way,
his name is majordomo (latin: housekeeper).
To subscribe to the list or to even unsubscribe from the list you always
have to communicate with the list server, never with the list itself.
Well, majordomo even filters on some of the keywords such as 'subscribe'
in order to spare the entire list population having to see those
kind of messages.
Please follow the instructions, always send e-mail to majordomo(@)athm.net
with the desired commands/actions inside the message body. You might
set a 'Subject:' for your e-mail, but it will be ignored by the list
server. All activity happens inside the message body (text body).
Majordomo is a good housekeeper, he can do more than one thing at a time.
To send multiple commands to the list server, write each command into
its own line in the message body, followed by the word 'end' in a line
by itself after the last command.
Important note: if your e-mail program automatically attaches a
signature to the bottom of every e-mail, you might get an error message
back from majordomo that he did not understand your signature. In this
case, also put in a line that contains the word 'end' after the command
but before your signature.
Please also consider the following rule: the list is a members list
only, so in order to send a message to the list you have to be
subscribed to the list with the exact same e-mail address that appears
in the 'From:' line of your e-mail messages. To date, this has been the
most effective way of banning SPAM (unsolicited commercial e-mail) from
all the mailing lists that I host on my servers.
More help with majordomo
The rest of this document is adopted from the majordomo help file.
SUBSCRIBING TO A LIST
To receive list mail at the address from which you're sending your mail,
simply say "subscribe" followed by the list's name:
subscribe sares-list
If for some reason you wish to have the mailings go to a different address
(a friend's address, a specific other system on which you have an account,
or an address which is more correct than the one that automatically appears
in the "From:" header on the mail you send), you would add that address to
the command. For instance, if you're sending a request from your work
account, but wish to receive "sares-list" mail at your personal account
(for which we will use "ham.elmer@example.org" as an example), you'd put
the line
subscribe sares-list ham.elmer@example.org
in the mail message body.
Based on configuration decisions made by the list owners, you will
also receive notification that an authorization key is required for
subscription. Another message will be sent to the address to be
subscribed (which may or may not be the same as yours) containing the
key, and directing the user to send a command found in that message
back to majordomo(@)athm.net. (This can be a bit of extra hassle, but
it helps keep you from being swamped in extra email by someone who
forged requests from your address.)
Upon subscribing, you should receive an introductory message, containing
list policies and features. Save this message for future reference; it
will also contain exact directions for unsubscribing. If you lose the
intro mail and would like another copy of the policies, send this message
to majordomo(@)athm.net:
intro sares-list
UNSUBSCRIBING FROM A LIST
Your original intro message contains the exact command which should be
used to remove your address from the list. However, in most cases, you
may simply send the command "unsubscribe" followed by the list name:
unsubscribe sares-list
(This command may fail if your provider has changed the way your
address is shown in your mail.)
To remove an address other than the one from which you're sending
the request, give that address in the command:
unsubscribe sares-list ham.elmer@example.org
In either of these cases, you can tell majordomo(@)athm.net to remove
the address in question from all lists on this server by using "*"
in place of the list name:
unsubscribe *
unsubscribe * ham.elmer@example.org
AUTOMATED LIST ARCHIVE
RETRIEVING FILES FROM A LIST'S ARCHIVES
Many list owners keep archives of files associated with a list. These
may include:
- back issues of the list
- help files, user profiles, and other documents associated with the list
- daily, monthly, or yearly archives for the list
To find out if a list has any files associated with it, use the "index"
command:
index sares-list
If you see files in which you're interested, you may retrieve them by
using the "get" command and specifying the list name and archive filename.
For instance, to retrieve the file "sares-list.0301" (presumably the
messages posted to the list in January 2003), you would put the lines
get sares-list sares-list.0301
in your mail to majordomo(@)athm.net.
GETTING MORE HELP
To contact a human site manager, send mail to Majordomo-Owner(@)athm.net.
To contact the owner of a specific list, send mail to that list's
approval address, which is formed by adding "-approval" to the user-name
portion of the list's address. For instance, to contact the list owner
for sares-list(@)sunnyvaleares.org, you would send mail to
sares-list-approval(@)athm.net.
To get another copy of the complete help message, send mail to
majordomo(@)athm.net with a line saying
help
in the message body.
last updated:
$Date: 2003-12-31 23:23:48+00 $
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