Adelante/Mailing lists/manual

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• ¡Adelante!
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• Members
• Officers
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• mailing lists
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This page explains the process of administering (Adding/removing members), moderating, and creating mailing lists, for Adelante! specifically, but can equally apply for other orgs using mpkb.net (or mailman generally) mailing lists

• For conceptual explanation, see Project:Information Distribution Systems
• For a list of Adelante! mailing lists, see Adelante/Mailing lists
• For a list of other mailing lists, see Project:Mailing lists

[edit] Management

to add or remove members:

1. at the master list, click on your mailing list

2. this list page will then pop

3. scroll down and click on "administrative interface"

4. enter the list password

5. click "membership management"

6. existing members may be removed one by one on this interface. click "mass removal" or "mass subscription" to batch add or remove based on a list of addresses

[edit] moderation

Login to adelantemac@gmail.com at http://gmail.com at least two or three times a week. There will be a few moderation requests sitting with the label moderation

moderation

[edit] Setting up new accounts

cPanel

mailing lists

use cPanel. you can login from http://bluehost.com using the usual id/password. you'll get into the cpanel screen. from there, go on to mail -> mailing lists. there, you get the lists in admin mode. notice that this is different from the admin mode for moderation and member add/removal purposes. from here, you can delete entire lists and create new ones. when you click on edit next to each name, it will take you to the moderation/membership admin screen.

at the bottom of the mailing lists page is a link that says add mailing list this will require you the mailing list name, a subdomain if any, and the initial mailing list password.

deletion of mailing lists is a two-step process. you click delete and click yes and it is irreversible. use with care. (actually, if the situation happens, bluehost may have a backup of the previous day, but this may implicate moving the entire server to the previous day and lose all new wiki data entered since that day as well.)

[edit] Links

• http://www.list.org/mailman-member/
• http://mm.tkikuchi.net/mailman-admin/

[edit] revamp project

situation:

1. too many emails
2. low usage

response:

1. maybe block non-member emails (this would block amalia etc, maybe just keep it for programming?)
2. done move to mpkb.net
3. merge latino-chicano with latinamerican
4. delete diversity
5. possibly delete jobs & volunteering
6. merge parties & food, cultural events into "events"

result: list number goes down from 10 to 5 (team, meetings, newsletter, latina, events) merged them all into adelante-announcements instead.

two ways of forwarding old addresses

• serverside, fwd email
• DNS side, but will lose current customized url fwd -> maybe keep serverside for a few months