Last Updated on March 18, 2004
You may subscribe to a list from the listserv Web page at http://listserv.syr.edu or
via e-mail.
To subscribe via e-mail:
Open the e-mail program you normally use when communicating
with the list of interest,
Type listserv@listserv.syr.edu in the “To” box,
Type Subscribe listname yourname in the e-mail message.
For example, if your name is Alex Neverovitch and the list to which you want
to subscribe is called sabers-and-swords, you would send the following
message to listserv@listserv.syr.edu:
Subscribe sabers-and-swords Alex
Neverovitch
Note: You may omit your name if your e-mail program automatically
includes it in your e-mail header.
Notes:
1. Restricted subscription lists. The instructions above apply
to OPEN subscription lists only. Some lists are set up to prevent
open subscription. A lot of class lists are set up this way. If you try
to subscribe to such a list you will get a message from listserv telling
you that you cannot do so. There are two versions of restricted lists.
The message you get will explain what to do. In one version, you will have
to contact the list owner and ask that person to ADD you to the list. In
the other version, listserv will contact the list owner for you. In either
case, you can't subscribe yourself. The list owner has to do it for you.
2. You must CONFIRM. After you send the email that includes
your request to subscribe to a list, listserv will ask you to confirm your
subscription request. This is a security feature. Here's how it works.
You will shortly receive email from listserv asking you to confirm your
request. The message explains that you need to reply to it with the following
message:
OK
Just open the message from listserv, click on the reply button
(if your email package has this feature), select all the text, type
OK, and then click on SEND.
Soon thereafter, if all is well, you will get a welcome message from
the list, which signals the fact that you have successfully subscribed
to the list.
3. Know your sending address. Most lists are restricted to members;
these are called Private Lists. Only subscribers can send messages to these
lists. Listserv checks to see if you are a subscriber by matching your
sending address against the subscription addresses. If it does not find
a match you cannot send to the list. Your sending address is the
address you set up in your email package that tells a recipient who sent
the message. You can look at your email configuration settings to find
this out, or you can simply send yourself a message and look for the From:
line of the message header. The address that appears there is your sending
address. If you change your email sending address, either because you switch
to a different email package and/or because you change email services,
you will no longer be able to send messages to the list. You might still
get messages from list if you set up forwarding from your old address to
your new one. But you will not be able to send.
You have a few choices to fix this problem.
A. You can subscribe again using the new package, in which case you
will have two subscriptions. B. Or you can change your subscription address
so it is the same as your new sending address. To do that you will
need to use your old package to send email to listserv@listserv.syr.edu.
In the message you say:
Change listname newaddress
where, of course, you substitute the actual name of the list for listname
and your actual new email sending address for newaddress. You will
have to go through the same confirmation routine described above from you
OLD email package.
C. Or you can send email to your list owner and ask that person to change
your subscription address for you. If you don't know who the list owner
is, just send email to this address:
listname-request@listserv.syr.edu
where, again, you substitute the actual list name for listname.
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