This article covers Two-Way Announcements Lists. This article support the topic in Course 3040 Training Video.
The Discussion List (Simple)
* SIMPLE Mailing List * Subscription= Open,Confirm Send= Private Confidential= No Validate= Yes, Confirm * Default-Options= REPRO,NOACK Notebook= No * Owner= jowner@DOMAIN.COM (Jessica Owner) * This is the List Header for the SIMPLE mailing list. *
An Example of a Discussion Mailing List
The above List Header may have been configured by the LISTSERV Site Manager who manages your host site. Note that each line begins with an asterisk * followed by a space and the List Header keyword or comment.
This section will describe the settings selected for each of the keyword parameters. For additional settings, click on the keyword.
· Subscription= Open,Confirm
Indicates that all new subscription requests will be processed without the intervention of the List Owner. The "Confirm" adds protection against forged subscription requests or bad addresses. The prospective subscriber will receive a subscription confirmation request from LISTSERV which must be confirmed with the "OK" mechanism.
· Send= Private
Indicates that only subscribed members are allowed to post to a list.
· Confidential= No
Indicates that a mailing list will be listed in the CataListsm service maintained by L-Soft. This parameter is independent of Subscription= options, and whether a list has public or private archives.
To hide a list from a LIST command and CataListsm use Confidential= YES.
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· Validate= Yes,Confirm
The Validate= keyword controls the level of command validation desired for your list. When set as above, LISTSERV requires a password for all "protected" commands (i.e., DELete, ADD) from List Owners. If a password is not supplied, LISTSERV will ask the user to confirm the operation.
· Default-Options= REPRO,NOACK
This keyword defines the default options that all new subscribers will have at the time they join or are added to the list. REPRO indicates that subscribers will receive a copy when they post to the list. NOACK indicates that the subscriber will not receive a short e-mail message acknowledging that their post was received.
· Notebook= No
This keyword controls whether message archives will be saved for a list. The setting No indicates that posts are not to be saved. Furthermore, by default, Notebook= No disables the digests feature of your list.
· Owner= jowner@DOMAIN.COM
This keyword identifies the e-mail address of the list owner. There may be several owners of a list. To add more owners, multiple Owner= lines would be used such as
· Owner= jowner@DOMAIN.COM
· Owner= another_owner@DOMAIN.COM
· Owner= yet_another_owner@DOMAIN.COM
To prevent additional owners from receiving LISTSERV administrative messages they can be set to Quiet owners in the following way:
· Owner= jowner@DOMAIN.COM
· Owner= Quiet:
· Owner= another_owner@DOMAIN.COM
· Owner= yet_another_owner@DOMAIN.COM
All owners listed after the Owner= Quiet: keyword (the ":" is required) will not receive list error messages. There must be at least one non-Quiet owner for a list.