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List owners may choose from the following options when requesting
a new list:
| open: |
anyone may subscribe to the list |
| closed: |
the list owner must approve all list subscriptions |
| private: |
only list members may use "who", "index", or
"get" commands |
| moderated: |
each message sent to the list must be approved by the moderator
before being delivered to the entire list membership |
If the requesting person does not specify list configuration options,
make the list as "open". |
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Most of this information is addressed in the following document:
http://www.itc.virginia.edu/desktop/email/mailing-lists/mailman.html#create
but here are some highlights and additions:
- Verify that the person is a member of the U.Va. community (though
it is not required that the computing ID be registered, it is important
to know whether or not it is registered when you go about creating the
list).
- If the person is not a member of the U.Va. community, the list
must be co-owned by a current member of the U.Va. community.
- Check the purpose of the list to verify that it is related to academic
or administrative endeavors (we do not sponsor recreational lists).
- Use "ckaddr" to verify that the requested list name is not
already in use. (usual caveats also apply to list names: they shouldn't
be too generic, they shouldn't conflict with the naming conventions
of computing ids, they shouldn't use a name specific to a different
department, etc.)
- Check the estimate of list membership. If it is very large (many hundreds
of IDs), we may need to request that the list owner moderate the list
and limit sending messages to the list during non-peak hours (or in
some circumstances, only send to the list with prior approval from postmaster).
- If the list is for a class, the list name must contain the registrar's
course ID and the list must be "private".
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