What is a "Mailing List"?
How does it work?
What are subscription options?
What
is a "mailing list"?
A mailing list is a group of people interested in the
same subject. Instead of maintaining separate conversations
with many different people by sending several emails to
many different email addresses, the mailing list allows
many different people to send email to a single email
address which then distributes the email to anyone subscribed
to the list. That is, when a member of the list sends
— or "posts" — a message to the list's
email address, it is automatically delivered to the email
boxes of all the list members. Members of the list can
then reply to the messages posted to the list, post new
messages themselves, and just read other members' messages
without replying at all (called "lurking").
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How
does it work?
Like other mailing lists, all you need to participate
is an email address. And, subscribing to the eCUIP Mailing
List is absolutely free. To subscribe, all you need to
do is submit your email address and choose a password
with the form on the Join
page. After you've submitted this information, you will
receive an email asking you to confirm your request to
subscribe by replying to the email. After you have replied
to the email, you will receive one email confirming that
your email address has been added to the list as well
as a second email with instructions on how to post a message
to the list, remove your name from the list (or, "unsubscribe"),
and change your options (see below). You will then begin
receiving mail from the list as it's posted.
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What are subscription options?
The eCUIP Mailing List offers several options for your convenience:
- Disable. If you will be unable to read your
email for an extended period of time and would like
to stop receiving email from the list during that
time, you may choose to "disable" delivery.
(Upon your return you may also enable delivery here
as well.)
- Digest. If you'd prefer to receive the day's
email once, bundled together (instead of individually,
as it's posted), you may choose to receive the "digest"
version of the mailing list.
- Receive posts. You may choose whether or not
you would like to receive the emails you post the
list.
- Acknowledgment mail. You may choose to receive
acknowlegement mail when you send mail to the list
— this option is useful if you've elected
not to receive your own posts to the list (see above).
- Conceal. If you would prefer that your address
not be listed among the publicly available list of
Subscribers,
you may choose to conceal yourself.
- Password. You may also change your password
or, if you've forgotten your password, you can have
it emailed to you as a reminder.
- Unsubscribe. And, of course, if you'd like
to stop receiving email from the list, you may unsubscribe
at any time.
You may change these options to suit your preferences from
the Edit
page.
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"A mailing list is a list of e-mail addresses identified by a single name, such as mail-list@sandybay.com. When an e-mail message is
sent to the mailing list name, it is automatically forwarded to all the addresses in the list."
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