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Electronic Mailing Lists

What they are

How to subscribe/unsubscribe

How to use them

The Club's own mailing list

A Whole bunch others...

Lists tend to be organized for a specific purpose. For example, the ky1n-list exists to distribute the KY1N Amateur examination list. It is considered bad etiquette to send mail to a list that does not relate to the purpose of the list.

Never send a subscribe or unsubscribe request to the list itself! This will only be mailed to everyone on the list and will only annoy people.

The usual destination address for requests is of the form majordomo@majordomo.whatever.com, where listserver.whatever.com is replaced with the actual location of the list. For example, Netcom supports many mailing lists and requests are sent to "majordomo@majordomo.netcom.com". Some older list server software may expect an address of the form listserver@whatever.com.

In the description of the commands below items contained in []'s are optional. When providing the item, do not include the []'s around it.

subscribe <list> [<address>]	Subscribe yourself (or <address> if specified) to the named <list>.
unsubscribe <list> [<address>]	Unsubscribe yourself (or <address> if specified) from the named <list>.
which [<address>]	Find out which lists you (or <address> if specified) are on.
who <list>	Find out who is on the named <list>.
info <list>	Retrieve the general introductory information for the named <list>.
lists	Show the lists served by this Majordomo server.
help	Retrieve a help message.
get <list> <filename>	Get a file related to <list>.
index <list>	Return an index of files you can "get" for <list>.
end	Stop processing commands (useful if your mailer adds a signature).

Not all commands are supported by all list servers.

If you have any questions or problems with a particular mailing list, you can often contact the list owner at "owner-<list name>@majordomo.whatever.com".

For problems with a Majordomo server itself, you would contact "Majordomo-Owner@majordomo.whatever.com".

Joel, KD1ON manually updates it so there is no specific format for the request. You just ask. But it would probably make sense to use the standard formats in case it ever becomes automated.

If you want to subscribe, send an email either to narc-request@bbn.com or to levin@bbn.com asking to be put on the NARC list.

Using the automatic format you would put in the body of the message the single line:

Once on the list, sending email to the address narc@bbn.com will result in it going to every person who has subscribed to the NARC mailing list.

Here's a whole lot of mailing lists. The first column is the name of the list. The second column is a description. The lists are grouped by list server.

Last Modified: 22 March 1998
Jim Heedles: heedles@ww1y.mv.com