LISTSERV General Commands
Below are LISTSERV general commands for managing your mailing list using e-mail. You may also manage your mailing list using LISTSERV's WWW interface.
Controlling your list
- Control your list by sending mail messages to
- listserv@lists.vcu.edu (The subject line of the message doesn't matter, just the body)
Subscription and Review Comands
- Add someone to your list by typing
- add my-list someone@some.where.edu Full Name
The name must be at least two words. Notification will be sent to the user.
If you have a signature file added to your messages, LISTERV will probably complain about it. To avoid the complaints, you can put // eoj after your commands:
add my-list someone@some.where.edu Full Name
// eoj
- To add someone without the notification, start the command with "quiet":
quiet add my-list someone@some.where.edu Full Name
// eoj - To add three people in one message:
quiet add my-list someone@some.where.edu Full Name
quiet add my-list another@some.where.edu Full Name
quiet add my-list third@somewhere.else.edu Full Name
// eoj - To remove someone:
delete my-list someone@some.where.edu
or
// eoj
quiet delete my-list someone@some.where.edu
Here you don't add the name.
// eoj
To see who's on your list:
review my-list
Occasionally someone will opt not to be listed in the review command.
// eoj
To show those people, use:query my-list with conceal for *@*
// eoj
password. To give yourself the password "secret-password", use the
PW ADD command:
pw add secret-password
// eoj
You'll get a message from the LISTSERV asking you to confirm the
new
password. Just reply to the message, with
ok
as the first line of your reply. If you've forgotten your password, send
pw change secret-password
// eoj
Now send a message to listserv@lists.vcu.edu that looks like this:
put my-list welcome pw=secret-password
Subject: Welcome to my list!
Hope you like it.
We have fun here.
Everyone who joins the list will be sent a message with the Subject
line:
"Welcome to my list!".
The body of the message will be:
"Hope you like it.
We have fun here."
You can arrange for a similar message to be sent to anyone leaving the list with PUT MY-LIST FAREWELL instead of PUT MY-LIST WELCOME.
List Archives
- Your list can be archived, with all its messages for each month saved in a file. To see what months are available, use
index my-list
// eoj
You'll get back a response something like this:
* * Archive files for the MY-LIST list at VENUS.VCU.EDU * (monthly logs) * rec last - change * filename filetype GET PUT -fm lrecl nrecs date time * -------- -------- --- --- --- ----- ----- -------- -------- MY-LIST LOG9706 LOG OWN V 79 112 97/06/27 16:40:07 MY-LIST LOG9707 LOG OWN V 79 105 97/07/24 15:41:37 MY-LIST LOG9708 LOG OWN V 79 266 97/08/29 14:05:32 MY-LIST LOG9709 LOG OWN V 79 28 97/09/03 16:16:00
To retrieve the August archive, for example, send
get my-list log9708
// eoj
Anyone on your list can do this. They can also search the archives:
search my-list word or phrase
// eoj
For instance, here's a search of VCU's SYSALERT list for the phrase "planned power outage":
search sysalert planned power outage
// eoj
The result of this search follows:
> search sysalert planned power outage
-> 1 match.
Item # Date Time Recs Subject ------ ---- ---- ---- ------- 000009 97/08/01 08:00 89 fwd: Planned Power Outage - Business School
To order a copy of this posting, send the following command:
GETPOST SYSALERT 9
>>> Item #9 (1 Aug 1997 08:00) - fwd: Planned Power Outage - Business School
From: bill jones <wmjones@VCU.EDU>
Subject: fwd: Planned Power Outage - Business School
^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^
Comments: To: dbrobst@saturn.vcu.edu, kguyre@saturn.vcu.edu,
***************
This should not affect any network equipment except on the first floor of
the School of Business. Should the power to the entire building go out, the
^^^^^
router (on the fourth floor) feeds Oliver-Education as well as Business.
We don't get the complete message back, but we are told how to get it:
getpost sysalert 9
// eoj
