1. Go to vancouvercommunity.net/lists
2. Click on Login. Click on Send me a password.
3. Enter your VCN email address and click “Send me my password”.
4. Check your email for you initial password and enter it with you email address to login
5. Click “Create list” at the top. Fill it in and click on “Submit”.
6. When we received your request from Sympa, we will validate your list.
7. In the meantime, you can configure your list.

Send an email to [email protected] with the following text in the body of your message:

INVITE (list-name) (email address of the invitee)

Repeat the line as many times as you like with different addresses in the same email

You can configure your invite in the customizing menu, but the standard will be something like:

Hi,
You are invited to join a mailing list for Community Network projects across Canada. To subscribe just reply to this message or click here:

[email protected]

If you don’t want to subscribe just ignore this message

1. Go to vancouvercommunity.net/lists
2. Click on Login. Enter your email address and password.
3. Click on “Your subscriptions”, then click on the “Admin” button for the list that you wish to make the changes to.
4. Click “List Admin” then “Edit list config”.
5. Click “List definition”.
6. Go to the bottom of Owner section and insert new Owner data in the blank field.
7. Go to the bottom of Moderator section and insert new Moderator data in the blank field.
8. Click “Update” on the bottom.

The following email commands are available only for list owners or list moderators. Curently (9/03), email commands are not available for mailing lists with their own domain names:

ADD user@host First Last

* To add a user to a list

DEL user@host

* To delete a user from a list

STATS

* To consult the statistics for

EXPire

* To begin an expiration process for subscribers who have not confirmed their subscription for x days. The subscribers have x days to confirm

EXPireINDex

* Displays the current expiration process state for

EXPireDEL

* To de-activate the expiration process for

REMIND

* Send a reminder message to each subscriber (this is a way to inform anyone what is his real subscribing email).

DISTribute

* Moderation: to validate a message

REJect

* Moderation: to reject a message

MODINDEX

* Moderation: to consult the message list to moderate

Here some common things you can do you configure the Sympa mailing list.

Changing the list’s info or description.

1. Log into vancouvercommunity.net/lists
2. Click on “Your Subscriptions”
3. Click on the on the “Admin” button next to your list’s name.
4. Click on “Subscribers”
5. Add your own email address right now – it will help you find the list later!
6. Click on “Customizing” from the list admin panel.
7. Select “list description” from the drop down and click the “Edit” button.
8. Edit the information and click on “Save”.