[H-GEN] [ADMIN] Posting to the Mailing lists

Bruce Campbell bc at thehub.com.au
Tue Jul 13 21:21:08 EDT 1999


(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Bruce Campbell <bc at thehub.com.au>)


Two of the previous 3 messages had been bounced to the moderator address
due to majordomo's 'Non-Member Submission'.  The third bounced due to that
nifty 'administrivia' option.

If you send email to any of the humbug mailing lists, and the address you
send that mail from is not subscribed to the matching list (or list-post),
then the message will be bounced for approval, which may take some time.

To check whether your email address is subscribed to the mailing list, you
can use the 'which' command to majordomo, ie:

	To: majordomo at lists.humbug.org.au
	Subject: majordomo doesn't care about the subject line

	which
	end

And majordomo will reply with a list of mailing lists that your current
address is subscribed to.  You *may* be subscribed to the mailing lists
under a different address.  Use the 'Show Full Headers' of your mail
program to find out which address majordomo is sending mail to, or simply
request majordomo to tell you 'who' is on a given list.

If you wish to be able to post to the mailing lists from a different
address to the one you receive the mail, consider subscribing to the
matching 'listname-post' list, ie:

	To: majordomo at lists.humbug.org.au
	Subject: majordomo doesn't read this line

	subscribe general-post
	end

If your address is on the matching 'listname-post' list, you can post to
the list 'listname' .  Simple.

All of the above is summarised at the end of every message sent to the
mailing lists, eg:

	--
	This is list (humbug) general handled by majordomo at lists.humbug.org.au .
	Postings only from subscribed addresses of lists general or general-post.

This is also listed in that message you receive when you subscribe to the
mailing lists which incidentally, implores you to keep a copy of the
message.  You can retrieve a copy of that message by asking majordomo:

	To: majordomo at lists.humbug.org.au
	Subject: Majordomo really, really doesn't read this line.

	info listname
	end

Replacing 'listname' with the name of the list.  Forgotten the name of the
lists?  Just ask majordomo (this is getting repetitive):

	To: majordomo at lists.humbug.org.au
	Subject: Honestly, Majordomo doesn't care about the subject line.

	lists
	end

and Majordomo will reply with a list of lists handled directly by
majordomo at lists.humbug.org.au, and lists which it will farm off to other
majordomo servers (if you have a mailing list you'd like to advertised
there, just ask me).

All of the lists are archived at http://archive.humbug.org.au/

--==--
Bruce.

VP/BOFH, Humbug.


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