[Isis-users] Using the new mailing list

[Kali]

(Una copia de este mensaje en Español ha sido previamente enviada)

The new mailing list is based on GNU's mailing system Mailman. You can 
find useful information in the project's official website:

http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html


Next I will try to give a hint on the most common and basic procedures 
to use the isis-users mailing list:


MANAGING YOUR OWN SUBSCRIPTION

In order to change your subscription preferences (as for example the 
mail format, the periodicity of the mailings, etc) you need to use the 
web interface available at the site iccisis.org. To access and change 
your settings you will need to go to the following url:

http://lists.iccisis.org/options/isis-users/(your_email_address)

Example:

http://lists.iccisis.org/options/isis-users/kali@kalimotxo.net

The web interface is available in several languages. In the page header 
you will find a dropdown list and a button to select the language of 
your choice, and once you press the button the interface will be 
displayed in your language.

Once you access this interface the system will ask for your subscription 
password. This password has been automatically and randomly set by the 
system during the import process from the old mailing list, so you will 
probably not know it. Do not panic, down at that page you'll find a 
button "Remind" under a big title "Password Reminder". Clicking on this 
button you should receive at your mailbox an automatic message 
containing the password assigned to you by the system. You can later 
change that password to anything you might want for easy remembering it, 
once you enter the management interface.

The email received will look something like this:


You, or someone posing as you, has requested a password reminder for
your membership on the mailing listisis-users at iccisis.org.  You will
need this password in order to change your membership options (e.g. do
you want regular delivery or digest delivery), and having this
password makes it easier for you to unsubscribe from the mailing list.

You are subscribed with the address:kali at kalimotxo.net

Your isis-users password is: my_password_is_not_public

To make changes to your membership options, log in and visit your
options web page:

     http://lists.iccisis.org/options/isis-users/kali%40kalimotxo.net


Once you know your password you will be able to access the manage 
interface. There you can change the password to whatever you can easily 
remember.

You will also be able to change the email address in which you want to 
receive the list's messages. The text in the page is very clear and easy 
to understand, and it's possible to change the interface to another 
language at any moment as indicated above, so it should be easy for 
anybody to change any setting.

Another option available on this page is to cancel your subscription to 
the list. If you wish to stop receiving emails from the list, this is 
the best choice.

Below you will also find some options relative to the reception of your 
messages, such as those to temporarily disable the reception of messages 
(being able to resume it later), change the reception mode to digest 
(only one unique message every some time including all the messages from 
the list during that period of time) and some other options which we 
will not discuss in detail here. You can check on the documentation 
referred at the beginning of this email for more details on those 
settings. If you are unsure of what each option means is better to leave 
them as they are. By default you will receive a copy of every each email 
sent to the list into your mailbox.

There is an interesting option on this list: You will be able to select 
the language which Mailman will use to communicate with you. If you 
don't understand English (the default language) or you are simply more 
confident using your native language, you can select any from the long 
list of available languages. From that moment on, every message 
generated by the system for you will be sent in this language, including 
subscription and unsubscription messages, or digest messages.

Once you finish changing or reviewing your subscription settings you can 
log out this interface using the button "Log out" in the page header. Do 
not forget to log the session out if you are using a shared computer.



SENDING EMAIL TO THE LIST

Now you have reviewed your subscription (and provided you didn't cancel 
the subscription) you can send emails to the list. (NOTICE: It is NOT 
strictly necessary to proceed through the above steps in order to send 
emails, the method provided is OPTIONAL only if you wish to modify any 
setting).

Emails sent to the address:

isis-users at iccisis.org

are automatically forwareded to all the list subscriptors. If you are 
reading this email it means you are already subscribed to the list, and 
you do NOT need to perform any extra action like asking to include your 
email to the list. ANY email sent to this address (including 
subscription or cancellation demands) will be sent to ALL the users and 
it might generate an undesired effect of SPAM, angering your fellow 
co-listers. Please, do not forget this detail: Think on the community!!

When you send an email to the list you will, by default, receive a copy 
of itself. This option is modifiable (not getting a copy of your own 
submissions) in the settings page above described.



CANCELING YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TO THE LIST

If for any given reason you decide to leave the list, you need to log in 
the settings page and mark the checkbox with the text "/Yes, I really 
want to unsubscribe/" and following press the "Unsubscribe" button. 
Unsubsribing by this means will cancel your presence in this list 
immediately, and you will stop receiving messages from the list. The 
last one you'll see will be the unsubscribe notification.




  That's all folks, I hope this small guide will be useful for everybody 
not familiar with the mailing list system, and hopefully we will make 
this list useful for everyone. I wish to kindly remind everyone the most 
basic behaviour rules for any communication interface, such as 
respecting everyone and willing to help, but also trying to keep the 
topics and avoid content-less flamewars. In the end, this list exists 
only for giving help to all the users of Isis worldwide.

If anybody has more doubts on how to use Mailman, do not hesitate to 
contact me on my personal email address (available in the sender field 
of this email). I hope to be of help.

Kind regards,

-Adolfo Hernandez (Jr)-






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