The Cornell Club of Hawaii uses an E-mail listserv in order to notify members of upcoming events and to disseminate other information. This self-managing system allows members to easily subscribe or unsubscribe themselves from the e-mail list.

Subscribing

Send an e-mail to listproc@cornell.edu that will command the computer (not a human being) to add, update or remove your name from the “cchi-L” mailing list. To add your name to the list, type “subscribe cchi-L” followed by your name and class number in the body of the message (see example below).

That's it! A more detailed explanation on how to use the mailing list can also be found at http://www.cit.cornell.edu/computer/email/using-lists/index.html.

There, you can learn how to manage when and how you receive e-mail notices from the Cornell Club. For example, you could turn off the messages while you're away on a trip or update your e-mail address to reflect a new service provider. By sending simple messages to the "list-serv" computer, these changes can be made automatically.

Welcome Message

When you subscribe, you'll automatically get a welcome e-mail with all the information to get you started. Here are a few things to note:

1. The welcome message will contain your subscription address. You'll have to be sure that whenever you send messages to the list-serv computer, that the "From" field in your e-mail uses this address (this mainly affects people with e-mail forwarding services like CU-CONNECT, but we can explain it further if you need more help).
2. That message will also contain your password. Save this password, as you'll need to use it any time you make changes to your record.
3. It also contains a few pointers on how to use the list, as well as where to go for more information (http://www.cit.cornell.edu/computer/email/using-lists/).
4. Currently, the list is set up so that replies to any messages sent out through the list will go back to the sender and not the entire list. This should prevent it from becoming a bulletin board which will clog all of our e-mail accounts.

Need more help?

Of course, if you lose your password or have any other problems, Ryan Tam is able to make changes to your record. Just let him know what you need, and he'll take care of it.

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