For departmental and school listserv maintainers only

Date: Wed, 28 Oct 98 10:17 EST

X-PH: V4.1@r02n07

From: "Bill Verity" <WHV@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>

Subject: Managing your new mailing list

To: rcb18@psu.edu

L-BRINKLEY is ready to use. You must add the members as described below.

If you are new to listserv lists, you may want to look at some web pages that Gerry Santoro created for a seminar he teaches about listserv.

The url is http://cac.psu.edu/~santoro/cac/seminars/manage-conf.htm

When subscribers write "to the list", they should send their mail to

L-BRINKLEY@lists.psu.edu

I've used the password "secret1" in the following discussions. Each owner MUST pick their own personal password and use that in all of their listserv management work. You just need one, even if you own several lists. Note that this password is unrelated to the password you use for any other system. The password is just to re-assure the server that you are who you claim to be. To pick a personal password, send mail to listserv@lists.psu.edu and in the body of the mail type the command:

1.  PW ADD my-password-choice.

Of course, substitute your actual password instead of "my-password-choice". I'd recommend NOT using your "Eudora" password here.

2.  You must add or delete users from the list yourself with email.

If you want to be on the list, don't forget to add yourself also. Owners don't get copies of mail -- only subscribers. Place your commands in the BODY of the note, NOT in the headers.   (BRINKLEY'S NOTE:  DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE HEADERS.  I'LL HANDLE THOSE.) Thus to add someone to the list, your mail would look something like the following example. Note that all text begins in column one - I've just indented it here try to make it easier to understand. Also, I've used the word QUIET here, which suppresses notification to the new members. If you want them to receive the standard boilerplate, omit the word QUIET.

Date: Tues, 17 Nov 98 10:00 EST

From: you, the listserv maintainer
Subject: Something useful for you - not used by the system
To: LISTSERV@LISTS.PSU.EDU

//SUB JOB PW=secret1
QUIET ADD L-BRINKLEY DD=NAMES
//NAMES DD *
userid1@node full name
userid2@node full name
...
useridn@node full name
/*
//SUB EOJ

To add me, one of the lines after DD * would be

rcb18@psu.edu Robert Brinkley

3a.  To delete a person from the list, you simply use individual commands in the job. In the example, change userid@node to the particular address you want to delete. By enclosing the address in quotes you avoid any problems with special characters that may be causing a problem. You must include a separate DELETE request between the // lines for each person you wish to remove.

//DEL JOB pw=secret1
QUIET DELETE L-BRINKLEY "userid@node"
//DEL EOJ

3b. If you want to delete *everyone* from the list and start over again, the command would be:

//DEL JOB pw=secret1
QUIET DELETE L-BRINKLEY *
//DEL EOJ

4. If you need to see who is on the list some time in the future, you can submit a small job just containing the single REVIEW command. The answer will be returned to you via e-mail.

//QUERY JOB
REVIEW L-BRINKLEY
//QUERY EOJ

This page is maintained by rcb18@psu.edu.
Updated November 17, 1998