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This page describes how to use your announcements mailing list at SoAustin.net.

Your mailing list is a convenient way for you to share news and information with your friends and followers. We use the term announcements mailing list to mean a mailing list that only you can post to. That's opposed to a discussion mailing list, where anybody can participate.

What You Need

Before you can begin, you will need four things at hand. You should have been provided this information by an SoAustin.Net administrator. In the list below, we use the example mailing list name yourband-news. Simply replace that example list name with your list name to obtain the mail address or web page that works for you.

1. Your mailing list address. This will be something like yourband-news@soaustin.net. This is the email address you will use to distribute messages to the list.
2. Your list administration web page. This will be something like http://www.soaustin.net/mailman/admin/yourband-news. This is the web page you go to manage your mailing list.
3. Your list administrator password. You will need it to get into the administration web page.
4. Your list information web page. This will be something like http://www.soaustin.net/mailman/listinfo/yourband-news. This is the web page you can tell people to visit to subscribe to your list. Existing list members can also go here to unsubscribe.

Adding People to Your Mailing List

Here is the procedure to add new people to your mailing list. When you add somebody to the list, they will get a message letting them know they've been added.

Important: You must have a person's permission before sending them email. If you don't have permission then the recipient may file a spam complaint against you, and then we'll have to do painful things to you.

1. Start up your web browser and go to the list administration web page (item #2 above).
2. Enter your list administrator password (item #3 above).
3. Click on the Membership Management configuration category, near the top fo the page.
4. A list of choices will open up under Membership Management. Click on Mass Subscription.
5. Scroll down the page to the Enter one address per line below... box. Enter in the email addresses of the people you want to add, one address per line.
6. Scroll down towards the end of the page. Click on the Submit Your Changes button.

Removing People from Your Mailing List

Here is the procedure to remove an email address from your mailing list.

1. Start up your web browser and go to the list administration web page (item #2 above).
2. Enter your list administrator password (item #3 above).
3. Click on the Membership Management configuration category, near the top fo the page.
4. Scroll down the page to find a list of member addresses. Unless your list is very small, you'll probably see just the addresses that begin with "A", and the letters of the alphabet listed above. Click on the letter that begins the email address you want to remove.
5. Next, scroll down the page until you see the email address you want to remove.
6. Click on the checkbox to the left of the email address you want to remove (the "unsub" checkbox), so that the box is checked off.
7. Scroll down towards the end of the page. Click on the Submit Your Changes button.

Sending a Message to all the People on Your Mailing List

1. Start up your email program and compose your message. Enter your your mailing list address (item #1 above) as the "To: address" of your message.
2. Send the message.
3. The message will go to our server, where it will be distributed to all the members of your list.