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The Initial Options screen contains many of the most commonly customized mailing list options.
Initial Options
- List administrator addresses:
- Addresses of list administrators. You may add additional list administrators in this field or transfer responsibility to a new administrator.
- Terse phrase identifying this list:
- Appears on the public information page and public list of lists. It should be as succinct as possible, while still identifying the list's purpose/intended use.
- Introductory description of list:
- Included at top of list info Web page, typically a few paragraphs.
- Notifications:
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- Send monthly password reminders:
- Default is No. When set to Yes, sends reminder to list members of their list configuration password once a month. List members may also set this option individually.
- Send welcome message to new subscribers?:
- Default is Yes. Sends automatic welcome message, including important addresses and URLs for the mailing list, plus any text entered in the field below this option, to new members when subscribed. If you want to include mission-specific information in the initial message, like etiquette policies or team orientation, add it here.
- Send goodbye message?:
- Default is Yes. Sends automatic goodbye message indicating they have been unsubscribed from the list, plus any text entered in the field below this option, to members when they are unsubscribed.
- Immediate and daily notices to list moderators:
- Default is Yes, which means list moderators receive a daily email message alerting them that messages are waiting for review before distribution to the list, as well as an immediate email message as soon as a message is held for review. Setting this option to No sends one daily email, usually in the morning, to list moderators of all messages that are awaiting review. For more information on processing messages held for review, see the section on moderation.
- Send mail to poster while pending approval?:
- Default is Yes, which means senders of messages submitted to a moderated list or messages that meet another hold-for-review criteria will receive an automatic email notifying them their message is pending approval before being posted to the list. Changing this setting to No prevents the auto-notification to the sender of any message held for review.
- Privacy:
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- Access to subscription lists:
- Default is Anyone, which means anyone who knows the list name can see a list of members. Setting this option to List members means only people subscribed to the list may access a listing of members. Setting this option to List admin only means only list administrators, not list members or non-members, are able to see a list of members.
- Subscription policies:
- This setting affects how new subscriptions to a list are processed.
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- None:
- The subscribing email addresses to the list is not reviewed.
- Confirm (default setting):
- A subscriber email confirmation is required for all new subscriptions.
- Require approval:
- List administrator approval is required for all new subscriptions.
- Confirm and approve:
- The list administrator must approve the subscription and the subscriber must confirm (usually by visiting a website) their membership in the list. Both must approve the subscription or the email address of the subscriber will not appear in the list.
- Unsubscription policies:
- Default is No, do not require list administrator approval for unsubscription requests. Setting this option to Yes means the list administrator must approve each request by a member to be removed from the list.
- Moderation:
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- Moderate new listmember postings:
- Default is No. Setting this option to Yes means postings by any member added to the list after this setting is enabled will be moderated (need to have their message reviewed prior to distribution to list members). Existing list member messages will not be moderated. To moderate all messages sent to the list, follow instructions on the list moderation page.
- Non-listmember posts:
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- Accept (Default):
- Accept means messages sent to the list by non-listmembers whose email addresses do not appear in an explicit Hold, Reject, or Discard list will be posted to the list without further approval. Other options:
- Hold:
- List administrator is notified by email of posting from any non-listmember whose email address does not appear on an explicit Accept, Reject, or Discard list.
- Reject:
- Automatically rejects all postings to the list from non-listmembers whose email addresses do not appear in an explicit Accept, Hold, or Discard list, and sends email to sender notifying them message has been rejected. This setting is not recommended as it will send a rejection notice back to spam senders, and can cause the list to receive more spam messages.
- Discard:
- Automatically discards messages from non-listmembers whose email addresses do not appear in an explicit Accept, Hold, or Reject list. By default the list administrator is notified when a message is discarded.
- Anti-spam filters:
- Default is No, which allows all messages sent to the list that meet all other automatic approval for destination options to be distributed to list members immediately. The Yes setting catches postings which do not have the list name explicitly in the To or Cc field. When set to Yes, postings where the list address appears only in the Bcc field are held for review, as messages where addresses appear in the Bcc field may be spam email messages. Additional privacy options are available to reduce spam.