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Contents 1 UWEB 1.1 Subscribing, Changing Options, and Leaving our Listserv 1.2 Archives 1.2.1 Related Lists 1.3 List etiquette 1.4 Problems 1.4.1 What's my Listserv password? 1.4.2 Why was my post rejected? 1.4.3 How do I avoid spamming the list with out of office autoreplies?

UWEB

Subscribing, Changing Options, and Leaving our Listserv

... can all be accomplished at the subscription settings page.

Archives

The archives are restricted to list members.

• UWeb

Related Lists

• Web Accessibility
• Computer Administrators
• Windows Administrators

List etiquette

1. Plain text, not HTML.
2. Trim your replies.
3. Don't top-post.

All of these things will keep the digest readers from rising up and strangling you.

Problems

What's my Listserv password?

Listserv has its own password management scheme, which has nothing to do with your NetID or departmental user account. If you have not signed up for a password with Listserv before, you probably don't have one at all. Just have it send you a password reminder.

Why was my post rejected?

This almost always happens because you're subscribed to the list using one address, but your From: address is something else.

Since our old website used your NetID as your login, and we pulled the member list from that site to populate our listserv, most of you are subscribed with your generic @tamu.edu address. However, you're actually sending from your departmental address, whatever that might be. Listserv is, alas, too stupid to realize that both addresses belong to you.

There are two ways to solve this. Go to the list subscription page and do either of the following:

1. Unsubscribe your @tamu.edu address and subscribe again using your departmental one.

2. Subscribe again using your departmental address (leaving your @tamu.edu subscription alone). Check the box marked "Mail delivery disabled temporarily [NOMAIL]" so you don't get two copies of every message. Listserv defines "temporarily" as "until you come back and tell us otherwise," so this setting will remain in effect unless you change it.

Option #2 is preferred because it will allow you to post to the list using either address, and because -- if you receive messages at the @tamu.edu address and set your departmental one to NOMAIL -- you'll still have a working account on the list if you change jobs within A&M, or if your server admins change your departmental address.

If you have any further problems posting to the list after subscribing with your departmental address, please let the list managers know.

How do I avoid spamming the list with out of office autoreplies?

If you have a filter for the UWeb list, you may be able to have the autoresponder ignore messages from us.

However, the easiest way to get around the autoreply problem is to stop receiving mail while you're gone. Go to the list subscription page and enter the address where your listserv mail is sent. (If you're subscribed with two addresses and you don't know which one to use, enter both and look for the one that isn't set to NOMAIL.) Check the box marked "Mail delivery disabled temporarily [NOMAIL]." When you get back, come back to that page and uncheck the box.