BANDALUM mailing list
BANDALUM A description of the BANDALUM mailing list e-mail list.
Subscribing & Unsubscribing
Details for subscribing and un-subscribing to
the e-mail list.
Reviewing subscribers
Details for determining the addresses for other subscribers.
LISTSERV Commands Information about how to find help for
additional LISTSERV commands.
Posting Messages Information about how to post a message
to the electronic mailing list.
What is the BANDALUM mailing list?
BANDALUM is an e-mail list service mailing list (LISTSERV) for email messages
of interest to alumni of the University of Arkansas Razorback Bands.
The intent of the list is to allow email notification of Razorback Band Alumni events and
also a method for alumni to keep up with each other by posting personal news and
information about those major changes in their lives.
This is not a list for sharing
off color humour in that many people receive email at their work. Many work sites,
especially elementary and secondary schools, have email programs in place which monitor
emails for certain words and there have been reports of people being reprimanded when
questionable emails that have been sent to their email account without their knowledge.
The list is also not intended for extended one on one conversations via the list. The email addresses
for other subscribers can be determined by using the review command, and
searching through the list for a friend's address. The review access is only available to
subscribers of the list and all subscriber request must be approved by the list owner. These
steps are necessary in order to prevent the addresses to be harvested for
spamming.
To use this service you might want think of this mailing list as having two mailboxes
that can be accessed by e-mail. One is administrative and the other is
functional.
The first one can be likened to a regular post office, with its own address.
In this case it happens to be LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU --- This is where you
do business to Subscribe, to Signoff (un-subscribe), or send other requests/commands.
You can do some other business at the 'post office' but details on how
to get that information is described in more detail below.
The second mailbox can be thought of as a service address where you can
send mail which you want to distribute to everyone who is currently subscribed.
This address is BANDALUM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU -- This is where you post your e-mail
which will be re-sent to everyone on the BANDALUM list.
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How do I sign up and subscribe? How do I un-subscribe?
You may be added to or unsubbed from list at any time by sending a request
or command to the "LIST SERVER address".
As mentioned
above this is like going to a post office, and requesting them to update your
home address for all of your mail. The LIST SERVER address is: LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
To get added to the list you send an e-mail that has nothing more than
the command to subscribe to the specific list in the body of your e-mail
message. The text of your e-mail should be as follows:
SUBSCRIBE BANDALUM [your first name] [your last name]
A computer program called LISTSERV (LIST SERVer) will process your e-mail and
any command you include. You do NOT put your e-mail address in the body
of the e-mail because the LISTSERV will use your "Return address" for that.
To be removed from the list, send a one line e-mail message to this same
address with one line in the body of the e-mail as follows:
SIGNOFF BANDALUM
Once again, you don't have to supply your email address because LISTSERV will
know which address to unsubcribe according to your "Return address".
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How do I find out who else is subscribed to the list?
To determine addresses of other people who are subscribed to the list you can send a
review request or command to the "LIST SERVER address".
As mentioned
above this is like going to a post office, and requesting them for a list of
addreses that exist on a mailing list. The LIST SERVER address is: LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
To have the list of subscribers sent to you, The text of your e-mail should be as follows:
REVIEW BANDALUM
An email will be returned to you that will contain the header of the list as well as
the list of recipients.
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What are some more information on Commands that LISTSERV can
do?
You can also tell LISTSERV to set different settings for your email address
in relation to the messages from the BANDALUM list.
For example, you
can tell it how you want it to confirm the receipt of
messages you send to the list. If you do not trust the system, send a "SET
BANDALUM REPRO" command and LISTSERV will send you a copy of your own messages,
so that you can see that the message was distributed and did not get damaged
on the way. After a while you may find that this is getting annoying, especially
if your mail program does not tell you that the message is from you when
it informs you that new mail has arrived from BANDALUM.
If you send a "SET BANDALUM ACK NOREPRO" command, LISTSERV will mail you
a short acknowledgement instead, which will look different in your mailbox
directory. With most mail programs you will know immediately that this
is an acknowledgement you can read later.
You can turn off acknowledgements completely with "SET BANDALUM NOACK NOREPRO".
Contributions sent to this list are automatically archived. You can get
a list of the available archive files by sending an "INDEX BANDALUM" command.
You can then order these files with a "GET BANDALUM LOGxxxx" command, or
using LISTSERV's database search facilities. Send an "INFO DATABASE" command
for more information on the latter.
Please note that it is presently possible for anybody to determine that
you are signed up to the list through the use of the "REVIEW" command,
which returns the e-mail address and name of all the subscribers. If you
do not want your name to be visible, just issue a "SET BANDALUM CONCEAL"
command.
More information on LISTSERV commands can be found in the LISTSERV reference
card, which you can retrieve by sending an "INFO REFCARD" command.
Remember, this is very important, ALL commands are placed in the body of
an e-mail, without the quote marks ("), to the address: LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
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How do I post a message to the BANDALUM mailing list?
Create your message with your regular e-mail program and then send the e-mail
to the BANDALUM mailing list address, also known as the list address.
The address for the BANDALUM is BANDALUM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
When you do this, your e-mail will be distributed to all the people who
are currently subscribed to the list.
This process is called "sending mail to the list", or more specifically,
sending mail to BANDALUM. List Server software does the work for you.
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Caution: Use the correct address for your intended purpose.
Only e-mail that should be distributed to everyone on the list should be
sent to the BANDALUM address.
The "mailing list address" is like a group of
individual persons' home addresses or in terms of a FAX, a group FAX number.
If you send a letter or FAX to the wrong address or number, not only will
it NOT be handled properly, but it will irritate a lot of people. Remember:
the address for the BANDALUM mailing list, which is where you send your messages
to all people on the mailing list, is BANDALUM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Requests for subscribing to the BANDALUM mailing list, un-subscribing to the BANDALUM
mailing list, or for other administrative work should never be sent to the address
of the BANDALUM mailing list, or list address, because the request would be distributed
to all of the people who are subscribed to the mailing list rather than being
processed as a command request. It is just as annoying as sending a FAX
to someone's regular voice phone number. It is an unpleasant experience
when the person picks up the phone. This might be excused the first time,
but not if you do it regularly. It is the same with mailing lists, with
the difference that you are calling dozens of people at
the same time, so a lot more people get annoyed if you use the wrong address
(number).
All requests, or commands, for subscribing, un-subscribing, etc., must
be sent to the "LIST SERVICE address", which is similar to the administrator
address, or the postmaster address. The "LIST SERVICE address is:
LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
The "LISTSERV address" is like the address of a post office. This is where
you send all requests, or commands. The commands go in the body of the
e-mail. The List Server will parse and process the commands.
You cannot send e-mail to the "List Service address" which is intended
for mailing list subscribers. If you send a letter intended for a friend to the
post office's street address, your intended recipient won't recieve the
letter, because the post office won't know what to do with it. Therefore,
don't send e-mail with your messages to this address. The
software won't know what to do with them.
In summary:
The mailing list address, or BANDALUM address is: BANDALUM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
The List Server address is:
LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Last update: 5/05/98
Produced 5/01/98 by Allen Fields allenf@comp.uark.edu.