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There are an abundance of mailing lists (also known as discussion lists) on the Internet. The listings below are just a guide.
There are four main mailing list systems:-
- Listserv
- Mailbase
- Mailserv
- Majordomo
- To Subscribe to a LISTSERV, send an email to the SERVER with your name, email address and the LIST-NAME.
- To Subscribe to a MAILBASE send a message to mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk containing the text 'join LIST-NAME First_Name Last_Name' (without quotes).
- To Subscribe to a MAILSERV, send a message to the SERVER containing the text 'subscribe LIST-NAME firstname lastname' (without the quotes).
- To Subscribe to a MAJORDOMO send a message to the SERVER containing the text 'subscribe LIST-NAME' (without the quotes).
If you are stuck, all you need to do, is send the message 'HELP' in the body of the message to the address e.g. mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk
BUT and it's a big 'but', don't send your request to subscribe straight to the actual list - otherwise you will be 'spamming' all the list members. Some of whom might not take kindly to receiving your request to be allowed to join !
For example if there was a list called GIS-A-JOB hosted by mailbase.ac.uk (which there ain't as far as I'm aware) and you wanted to join it, your options are
- Send a message to MAILBASE@mailbase.ac.uk
- Send a message to GIS-A-JOB@mailbase.ac.uk
Yes the right answer (unless you like getting hatemail) is to send the message to MAILBASE@mailbase.ac.uk!