Hello Brent, That's looking great. Thanks for addressing this -- it will really boost our visibility to have everything on sigcis.org. As you'll recall, what I didn't like about sigcis@sigcis.org was the redundancy, so using "members" deals with that while keeping a descriptive prefix for the messages. To duplication the existing list there are a few more configuration settings you will need to set. * Have the list accept messages from subscribers but hold messages from non-subscribers for moderation. Joline should be the moderator, at least for now. They're mostly spam, but occasionally members post from the wrong address. * Have the list accept messages from the following nonsubscribers. These all have to do with people having multiple email addresses. thaigh@uwm.edu tdhaigh@colby.edu thomas.haigh@gmail.com brian.randell@ncl.ac.uk thaigh@computer.org hemmendd@union.edu galberts@science.uva.nl petereckstein@comcast.net * Make sure members are allowed to unsubscribe * Make sure that members CANNOT subscribe without moderator approval. * Set the archive feature to ON and PUBLIC. Have a new archive volume generate monthly. * Set the maximum message size to 150KB to make sure nobody gets spammed with big attachments. * Allow subscribers to switch to digest mode if they want. Include the following text in the welcome message for new subscribers " Welcome to members@sigcis.org, the discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. All subscribers can post to the list directly by emailing their message to this address. New subscribers are asked to send a message to the list (address it to comphist@uwm.edu) with the subject "About [Your Name"]. In the body of the message, please include your name, affiliation, home page address (if applicable) and a paragraph discussing your involvement with the history of computing and current research interests. As well as introducing you to the community, this will provide our SIG secretary with the information needed to update our online directory, currently at http://www.tomandmaria.com/tom/resources/historians.php. List policies are under development. Announcements of reasonably broad interest are encouraged, including those of conference, books and other publications. Commercial use is not permitted, other than the posting of a single announcement of a publication of general interest. Email attachments should be avoided whenever possible in favor of hyperlinks, and in no case should exceed 100 kilobytes. " We'll need to change the text when we get the directory onto sigcis.org, but it can stay for now. Have the follow message appended to each post. Obviously you'll need to change the URLs and list name. " This email is relayed from comphist@uwm.edu, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://listserv.uwm.edu/mailman/private/comphist/ and you can change your subscription options at http://listserv.uwm.edu/mailman/listinfo/comphist. " Tom -----Original Message----- From: members-bounces@sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces@sigcis.org] On Behalf Of Brent Jesiek Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 1:56 PM To: members@sigcis.org Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Test Message All, apologies for the deluge of listserv notices - I was having trouble deciding what to call the listserv. I ultimately decided it best to call it members@sigcis.org, but to configure it to append all titles with [SIGCIS-Members] to clarify the message source. Whaddya think? Brent _______________________________________________ Members mailing list Members@sigcis.org http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members