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Managing mailing lists

Subscribing to mailing lists is a viable alternative to using a newsreader, especially if the mailing list isn't mirrored to a newsgroup or you have a sophisticated e-mail reader (such as Eudora for the Mac or Windows) that does mail filtering.

When you subscribe to a mailing list you'll recieve an acknowledgement message that details commands available to you in dealing with the list-server software.

If you keep those messages then you don't need to read any further.

Still reading, eh? Well, I didn't like keeping long messages about obscure commands around, but I didn't like not remembering how to send mail to the list subscribers. I've come up with the following: for each mailing list I've subscribed to I keep the following information:

   Listname:
      Title:
       Post:
  Subscribe:
Unsubscribe:
      Human:

as in

   Listname:  cu-seeme-l
      Title:  the CU-SeeMe-L mailing list
       Post:  CU-SEEME-L@cornell.edu
  Subscribe:  SUB CU-SEEME-L Firstname Lastname to listserv@cornell.edu
Unsubscribe:  UNSUB CU-SEEME-L to listserv@cornell.edu
      Human:  Joanne Callahan 
   S/W Bugs:  cu-seeme-bugs@cornell.edu
 Gen'l Info:  cu-seeme-info@cornell.edu


Listname: Cypherpunks Title: Cypherpunks Post: cypherpunks@toad.com (cypherpunks-announce-request@toad.com for announcements) Subscribe: subscribe cypherpunks to majordomo@toad.com Unsubscribe: unsubscribe cypherpunks Michael 'Mickey' Sattler to majordomo@toad.com Human: cypherpunks-owner@toad.com


Listname: mac-eudora-forum Title: Eudora for the Macintosh discussion forum Post: mac-eudora-forum@qualcomm.com S/W Bugs: eudora-bugs@qualcomm.com S/W Suggest: eudora-suggest@qualcomm.com Subscribe: subscribe to mac-eudora-forum-request@Qualcomm.COM Unsubscribe: unsubscribe mac-eudora-forum Michael 'Mickey' Sattler to Majordomo@Qualcomm.COM Human:


Listname: machttp-talk Title: machttp-talk mailing list Post: machttp_talk@oac3.hsc.uth.tmc.edu Subscribe: subscribe machttp-talk to Majordomo@academ.com Unsubscribe: unsubscribe machttp-talk "Michael 'Mickey' Sattler, San Francisco" to Majordomo@academ.com Human: cshotton@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Chuck Shotton)


Listname: mcip Title: Macintosh Cryptography Interface Project Post: mcip@mcfeeley.cc.utexas.edu Subscribe: SUBSCRIBE MCIP Michael 'Mickey' Sattler Unsubscribe: UNSUBSCRIBE MCIP Human: Gregory Combs


Listname: net-happenings Title: Things happening on the Intenet according to the InterNIC Post: mail to human Subscribe: majordomo@is.internic.net (msg body) sub net-happenings fn ln Unsubscribe: majordomo@is.internic.net (msg body) unsub net-happenings Human: net-happenings-approval@is.internic.net Info: majordomo@is.internic.net (msg body) -InterNIC Information Services


Listname: New Files at mac.archive.umich.edu Title: New Files at mac.archive.umich.edu Post: not allowed, new files to macgifts@mac.archive.umich.edu Subscribe: send request to mac-recent-request@mac.archive.umich.edu Unsubscribe: send request to mac-recent-request@mac.archive.umich.edu Human: mac-recent-request@mac.archive.umich.edu

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