[PreWar] List changes

Mark J Bradakis mark at bradakis.com
Mon Sep 7 13:16:55 MDT 2009


In case you are wondering about that odd email welcoming you to a list
you already receive, I've switched british-cars-pre-war at autox.team.net from
majordomo to mailman list management software.   Some things will be
different, some will be the same.  As before, if you want to send mail
to british-cars-pre-war at autox.team.net you oddly enough send mail to
british-cars-pre-war at autox.team.net - you'd be surprised at how many
folks can NOT figure that one out!

With Mailman, managing your subscription should be more web friendly.
You can go to the web pages listed in the messages and muck about with
your settings.  The link is included in as the bottom of every regular
message to the list.

Another handy option is the 'nomail' feature.  If you are going to be away
from your email for a while, you can set your membership to nomail, and
then back to regular delivery upon your return.  A bit easier than having
to unsubscribe and then subscribe again.

A useful way to make use of the nomail feature is to enable submissions
from multiple addresses.  For example, one might want to subscribe
a-student at diploma.mill.edu as your main address.  But sometimes you
send mail from work, so you can subscribe busybee at monolith.com
and set the second address to nomail.  So messages you send from
either address will pass the membership test, but you won't get multiple
copies of each list message.

RealSoonNow I'll have a web page that covers some more of the various
differences and features.

mjb.


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