If you just got a new mailing list you need to do several things, see below.
add folkmusic jsmith@uvm.edu Joe Smith pw=mango
When you add a new subscriber they will receive a
LISTSERV welcome messsage which will tell them a number of things and also
point them to
All About LISTSERV at UVM
which will give them
tips on joining, leaving, and sending a message to
a mailing list.
If you composed a custom welcome message when you requested the list, that
will also go to a new subscriber.
You might also find this link useful: All About LISTSERV at UVM. The UVM LISTSERV home page is at: LISTSERV home and gives you links to - All About Listserv, Setting up a new list, Doing Listowner functions on the Web, Viewing the archives and Other functions. That should be enough to get things going. Keep reading if you want to know more about managing your list.
You can login to the Listserv Web interface to add and delete subscribers and to do other management functions by going to: Mailing List Management Interface Then click on "List Owners Only".
The following instructions are for email, but you might find the Mailing List Management Interface easier to use. Look for "List Owners Only". The "Bulk" button will help you add several people at once.
Let's assume for our examples that the list name is FOLKMUSIC and your personal password is STRUMMER and you want to work with somone called Mary Jones whose e-mail address is: mary.jones@uvm.edu. Use your mailer to send email to: listserv@list.uvm.edu, and include the appropriate command(s) in the body of your message.
To place someone on your list, use the add command:
add folkmusic mary.jones@uvm.edu Mary Jones pw=strummer
(The field "Mary Jones" can contain almost any variation of someone's real name, as in: Mary R. Jones, Mary Jones III, M. Jones but the real name must be two words. A single name is not allowed.)
To remove someone from your list, use the delete command:
delete folkmusic mary.jones@uvm.edu pw=strummer
To get a list of all subscribers sorted in various ways, try one of these commands:
review folkmusic
review folkmusic (by country
review folkmusic (by name
review folkmusic (by node
review folkmusic (by userid
review folkmusic (by (node userid)
To get a partial list of subscribers who match a certain string of characters:
scan folkmusic jones
scan folkmusic uvm.edu
scan folkmusic aol
To add several people at once (a "bulk" add), you can use this job. You only need to specify the list name and password once. Type in the words "dd=batch" and "//batch dd *" as indicated, they tell Listserv where to find the list of subscribers.
add folkmusic dd=batch pw=strummer
//batch dd *
tjones@uvm.edu Ted Jones
csmith@uvm.edu Cindy Smith
Leslie.Lee@uvm.edu Leslie Lee
/*
Or you can use this job. The syntax is a little simpler, but you have to specify the command and list name on each line. This job is better than the previous job if you have several adds and deletes to do, because you can specify the command you need.
// job pw=strummer
add folkmusic tjones@uvm.edu Ted Jones
add folkmusic csmith@uvm.edu Cindy Smith
delete folkmusic Leslie.Lee@uvm.edu
// eoj
(Since the above commands are only examples, fill in the fields that seem appropriate for your list.)
You can put several commands in one e-mail message by listing them on subsequent lines.
If a subscriber is having some problem, like not getting mail, you might try this command to see the settings:
query folkmusic for tjones@uvm.edu
If you want to change a person's settings, like to stop their mail, use the nomail setting:
set folkmusic nomail for tjones@uvm.edu pw=strummer
If you want that person to again receive mail, use the mail setting:
set folkmusic mail for tjones@uvm.edu pw=strummer
There is an option called "quiet" which you use in front of some of these commands if you don't want the person to receive any email about what you are doing. For example, you have "bad" address on your list and you want to remove it. The delete command will work but will send a farewell message to that "bad" address. Since there is no need for that, just precede the delete command with the word "quiet", like so:
quiet delete folkmusic csmith@uvm.edu pw=strummer
This also works for the add command, in case you don't need to tell the person they have just been added to your list. For example:
quiet add folkmusic tom-ber@somewhere.com Tom Berrows pw=strummer
If your Listserv command is too long to fit on one line, break it into two lines, between words. Put double slashes at the beginning of the first line and a comma at the end, and then continue on the second line. Make sure you put a space after the slashes and a space before the comma. For example:
// add nettalk someone@there.very.long.address.that.it.takes.two.edu ,
Judy Jones pw=timeout
If you receive a "Daily Error Monitoring Report", it means LISTSERV was unable to deliver a message to a subscriber. In many cases, this is simply due to a temporary problem, such as a person's mail server being unavailable or his/her mailbox being full. Depending on how your list is configured, if LISTSERV encounters a permanent delivery failure such as an email address no longer being valid, it may automatically unsubscribe the user so you do not have to do this yourself.
There is a mailing list for list owners, sponsored by L-Soft International, Inc. If you want to discuss list owner issues with other list owners go to: Lstown-l. You can join the list, or just view past postings.
If the list you manage is no longer being used and you wish to delete it, send an email message to lsmaint@list.uvm.edu giving the name of the list you want to delete. The LISTSERV maintainers will remove the list for you.
Last modified March 27 2008 04:31 PM