STC Email List Training Documents
If you have questions about these training documents please write to ann@annlwiley.com. Mailman documents are listed first, followed by Lyris documents. The numbers for the Lyris documents are for convenience in referring people to the documents.
Mailman lists
How to request, set up and use a Mailman announcement or discussion list
Help for subscribers to the Lyris lists
(1) How to read the email list digest even if it contains HTML
(2) How to set your email client to send plain text
(3) How to set yourself to "nomail" or "digest" when you are away. This is REQUIRED so your "out-of-office" autoresponder will not spam everyone who posts to the list while you are away. You can use this procedure to your change other list settings too.
(4) How to search an STC Lyris list
Set up a Lyris list
(5) How to request, set up, and use a Lyris announcement list
(6) How to request a Lyris discussion list and set up the List Info
(7) How to set up the account for a Lyris list administrator
(8) How to block HTML, untrimmed posts, attachments, and messages with "digest" in the subject
(9) How to use the Hold settings
Welcome new members to achieve a high subscription rate, and encourage members to stay
Note: Block HTML, untrimmed posts, attachments, and "digest" in the subject before working on achieving a high rate of subscriptions to the list.
(11) How to create the Confirm, Hello, and Bye documents
Maintain a list
(12) How to approve or reject a new Lyris list subscriber
(13) How to prevent autoreplies from reaching subscribers or the Lyris list
(14) How to purge non-members from a Lyris list
Additional information
http://lists.raycomm.com/lyrisdoc/lm_help/4.0/
http://www.stc.org/list_request/list_faq.asp
Acknowledgements
The Lyris training was developed by Michele Marques, manager of the STC Single Sourcing SIG and long time list manager for that SIG. Significant additions were made by the Online SIG, primarily by John Wilcox, list manager. The procedures provided by Michele Marques are the basis for the Mailman training. Thomas Neuburger did early research on Lyris list commands that provided background for this work.