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| mailing_list [2009/05/08 13:36] – Add link to public archive. ralph | mailing_list [2021/11/25 10:07] (current) – Add instructions on how to unsubscrube. ralph |
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| A mailing list is an email address that takes what it is sent and sends it back out to all the list's subscribers. Our mailing list, called "dorset", requires you to subscribe to it before it will send on your emails. **Subscribing is easy**; enter your email address in [[http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset|the form]] and you'll be sent an email asking you to confirm by either visiting a web page or sending an email. From then on, you'll receive any emails sent to the list. As of 2007-07-14 we're sending emails to 125 addresses. | A mailing list is an email address that takes what it is sent and sends it back out to all the list's subscribers. Our mailing list, called "dorset", requires you to subscribe to it before it will send on your emails. **Subscribing is easy**; enter your email address in [[http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset|the form]] and you'll be sent an email asking you to confirm by either visiting a web page or sending an email. From then on, you'll receive any emails sent to the list. As of 2007-07-14 we're sending emails to 125 addresses. |
| | **Unsubscribing** is similarly straightforward; visit the |
| | [[http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset|same form]] |
| | and the //dorset Subscribers// section at the end has instructions for starting to unsubscribe. |
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| If you're **concerned about spam**, don't be cautious about subscribing. Since only subscribers' emails get through to everyone, little or no spam makes it through. As for a spammer harvesting your email address to send spam directly to you, the list of subscribers is only available to a couple of people that administer the mailing list. In theory, a spammer could subscribe in order to learn the email addresses people use but that hasn't happened. Some people subscribe with an address specifically for the list if their email program and ISP allow it, e.g. //fred-dorset at bloggs dot net//, so they can see if the address ever gets misused. | If you're **concerned about spam**, don't be cautious about subscribing. Since only subscribers' emails get through to everyone, little or no spam makes it through. As for a spammer harvesting your email address to send spam directly to you, the list of subscribers is only available to a couple of people that administer the mailing list. In theory, a spammer could subscribe in order to learn the email addresses people use but that hasn't happened. Some people subscribe with an address specifically for the list if their email program and ISP allow it, e.g. //fred-dorset at bloggs dot net//, so they can see if the address ever gets misused. |
