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Basic Information
- List Name:
- The Majordomo list name or identifier; specified by the List
Owner. This name must end with '-list' or '-l' to differentiate it
from usernames, newsgroups etc. Can include numbers as well as
letters; cannot contain spaces or any special characters with the
exception of the hyphen '-' or underscore '_'. Non-case-sensitive
(upper/lower case not significant). No limit on length, however,
should be short and informative.
- List Owner:
- The BU login name of the prospective List Owner. Automatically
inserted in request form. NOTE: to have more than one List Owner
for a particular list, it is permissible for two or more people to
share the List Password (below).
- List Password:
- Used to make administrative changes to the list and for
approving posts to moderated lists. Limited to 8 characters;
cannot contain spaces; case-sensitive (case is significant - can
contain upper/lower case characters). NOTE: do not use your
Kerberos password for a Majordomo mailing list.
- Short Description:
- A brief (no more than one line) description of the list. (For
administrative use.)
- List Description: (in detail)
- A longer description of the list; sent to new
Subscribers.
- Estimated Subscribers:
- Expected approximate number of active Subscribers. (For
administrative use.)
- Frequency of mailings:
- Expected (approximate) number/frequency of mailings. (For
administrative use.)
- Size of mailings:
- Expected physical size (approximate number of bytes) of
mailings. (For administrative use.)
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List Options
Several list attributes must be specified when the list is
established. These include:
- List
membership:
- Default: closed. In a closed list, all subscription
requests are forwarded to the List Owner for approval.
Other options: Open -- anyone may subscribe without
approval.
- Subscription
privacy:
- Default: P rivate to List Owner -- only the List Owner
can review the list of Subscribers.
Other options: Public -- anyone can review the membership
of a list by sending a request to the Majordomo server.Pri vate
to list Subscribers -- only list Subscribers can review
(retrieve names & e-mail addresses of all Subscribers).
- Moderated/Unmoderated:
- Default: Unmoderated . Choice of Restricted
(only List Owners can send mail to the List) or
Unrestricted (anyone can send mail to the list).
Other options: Moderated -- anyone can mail to list -- List
Owner approval required for all postings. Please note that
moderated lists can be labor-intensive; every single post to the
list must be individually approved).
- Subscription/Sign off
notification:
- Default: Notice. List owner receives notification of
new subscriptions and signoffs.
Other options: No notification -- notice is not sent to the
List Owner when someone subscribes to or unsubscribes from a
list.
- Replies to list
mail:
- Default: Replies will go to all Subscribers -- whenever
anyone replies to a posting, a copy will go to all Subscribers on
the list.
Other options: Only to sender -- whenever anyone replies to
a posting, a copy will go only to the sender of the original
posting
- List
Confidentiality:
- Default: Hidden -- the list name will not be included
in a display of all Majordomo lists at BU (generated by sending
the 'lists' command to the Majordomo server).
Other options: Displayed -- the list name will be included
in a display of all Majordomo lists at BU.
Other Majordomo-Related Terms
- List owner:
- The person responsible for creating and maintaining a mailing
list. The owner can do everything a subscriber can do, and can
also make changes to the list itself. The owner can add or delete
people, change the description of the list, approve posts to
moderated lists, approve subscription requests to closed lists,
and more. Any of these changes can be implemented by sending
commands to the Majordomo server via e-mail.
- Kerberos Password:
- Campus systems which use the BU login name (including ACS and
most other shared use systems) are required to use a special form
of secure password called a Kerberos password.
- Subscriber:
- A list member; someone who has been added to a Majordomo
list.
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