Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:13:33 -0700
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Dear Marcia and LSTOWN-L Folks,
>I've started my first mailing list and
Gate Open
From the top of my head, with little study or
thought, I've generated a quick list of steps
in a rough order for your edification. I'm sure
Pete or Winship or Nathan could do better,
if they pleased to and had the time:
General Steps to Set Up A New LISTSERV
1. Get the list created by the site manager.
Have the site manager also create some
standard templates, and enable your
location for list files (Welcome and Farewell,
for instance). Pick the best available name
for your new group.
2. Add or subscribe yourself and all other
list owners. Create a password for your
list management account(s). Put your own
account on "review" to prevent accidents.
Become familiar with the LISTSERV Web
interface.
3. Test the list with multiple kinds of e-mail
addresses that you create from hotmail,
and other free services, and your own
uh.edu address(es). Delete the tests
from the archives.
4. Write your welcome message. Put it.
5. Write your faretheewell message. Put it.
6. Write your "I'm just the list owner and
it's not my job to answer on-topic
questions in off-list e-mail" message.
7. Write a message to help the &%$#@! to
unsubscribe. Write another to help anyone
to subscribe - include both e-mail and Web
methods.
8. Write your other administrative messages
as they are required. Save them with names
that will help you find them in the future. If it
happens once, it will probably happen again.
9. Create a Web "home page" for your new
group - create a place for good on-topic
links to be shared (to get new comers up
to speed). Include any "rules" or etiquette
you intend to enforce.
10. Customize your LISTSERV Web interface
to look the way you want it to be seen. Make
sure you know what each option does, and
how it can be used.
11. Announce your new group to NewList and
register with other list-availability-type
sites (PAML, TILE.NET, LISZT, etc.). Make
sure you show up in Catalyst, in time.
12. Join and read the list-owner mailing lists:
a. Anything local to your site
b. LSTOWN-L
c. LSTSRV-L
d. List-Managers
e. LIST-moderators, etc.
13. Learn to read e-mail headers and LISTSERV
error messages. Respond appropriately.
General Advice
Don't say anything you would not want to see
in a newspaper headline tomorrow.
Don't make a rule you won't enforce fiercely
against your own mother. Be fair. Live by
what you wrote, not by what you meant.
Keep your list-manager informed if there are
barbarians at the gate. Otherwise be nice.
Be as kind as possible to the newbies - they
are our future, whether we like them or not.
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I hope this helps (IHTH).
Pax,
Ballew Kinnaman <[log in to unmask]> 206/463-2322
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