| The GBFC has an electronic mailing list for
coop members. It is managed through a "list server"
program at the University of New Hampshire. Below are instructions
for subscribing, unsubscribing, and sending messages to the list.
Please email the webmaster if
you need any help.
The most important information is that when you want to
send a message to coop members, send an email to this address:
GBFC.Members@lists.unh.edu.
When you want to subscribe, unsubscribe, or make any other changes to your
account, you have to send a message to the administrative address at
GBFC.Members-request@lists.unh.edu.
Note the "-request" in the second email; if you leave this out,
there is a chance that the whole list will see your message and the
requested action will not get done.
How to subscribe or unsubscribe:
In order to be able to receive messages from the list
you are interested in you must subscribe to that list. And in many cases
you also must be subscribed to a list in order to send messages to other
subscribers. Use the first of these commands to add yourself to the list
whose list-name you specify and the second to
remove yourself from the list whose list-name you
specify (to which list you must, of course, have previously subscribed).
In these commands, replace list-name with the name
of the list (that part of the e-mail address of the list to the left of
the @-sign). In the subscribe command, replace your-name
with your real name (not your e-mail address). For example, if your
name is Joan S. Doe and you wish to subscribe to the list GBFC.MEMBERS@lists.unh.edu,
you may join that list by sending mail with the command
subscribe GBFC.Members Joan S. Doe
The subscribe command can be abbreviated by using the
first three letters of the command. This is true of all commands.
Therefore you can also use the command
sub GBFC.Members Joan S. Doe
as the body (not the subject) of the message, to your
local ListProc.
Notice that in this command you do not have to include
your e-mail address, you only need to include your full name. This is
because ListProc reads the return address on your message and uses that as
your subscription address. This means that you cannot subscribe to a list
by sending a subscribe command from your friend's e-mail account. User
names may not contain the following characters: `"<>[]{}|$~*?!\
These are illegal characters as far as listproc is concerned.
Unsubscribing is as simple as sending the same
email body text as above but replacing "subscribe" with
"unsubscribe" or "unsub."
For more information on the operation of the list or to
fine tune your own settings, please see the List Proc user manual at http://www.unh.edu/NIS/Docs/ListProc/userman.html.
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