[lug] The New Mailing List

[Alan Robertson]

Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> 
> Note: I've set the reply-to on this message to myself personally.
> If you wish to publicly discuss the new list, please copy it to the
> list address.  However, if you see problems or whatnot, go ahead and
> send it directly to me.
> 
> Greetings.  I've just switched us over to the new mailing list software.
> This shouldn't require any changes on your end.  If you filter the mail
> via procmail, it will continue to have the "[lug]" in the subject to
> identify message.  Submissions should go to lug at lug.boulder.co.us,
> and subscription/unsub messages should go to lug-request at lug.boulder.co.us.
> 
> By now you should have received the welcome message generated when I
> subscribed your address.  This message includes the URL of the web-based
> management page, as well as the password you will need to access it.
> From this page you can change the following options:
> 
> subscr -- Are you subscribed?
> hide -- Is your address concealed on the list of subscribers?
> nomail -- Is delivery to the member disabled?
>           (For example, if you go on vacation)
> ack -- Do you get acknowledgements of your posts?
> not metoo -- Do you avoid copies of your own posts?
> digest -- Do you get messages in digests? (otherwise, individual messages)
> plain -- If getting digests, do you get plain text digests? (otherwise, MIME)
> 
> All the folks who were subscribed to the digest have been subscribed to
> the new list in digest mode.  However, it seems a number of users were
> subscribed to both the digest and non-digest versions.  In this case
> you will be receiving the digest only.  The new list software has no
> facility for sending both the regular list and digests to the same
> address.  If you wish to receive both versions you will have to
> subscribe with an alias for one of them.
> 
> Let me know if you run into any problems.  For those of you who are
> interested, the software is called Mailman (www.list.org) and seems to
> have the functions they're talking about putting in Majordomo version
> 2 (which isn't available yet from what I can see).  It's QUITE nice
> software.

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	-- Alan Robertson
	   alanr at bell-labs.com