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Learning to use and run a Mailing List depends entirely on your
ability to send and read e-mail. A List refers to a group of people who have subscribed to
the List because of a common interest. For example, ESF has created two lists for this
program, esf-educ and ESF-learn.
esf-educ is a public list where those working on the Partnership Program can talk
about what they are doing and those who are not involved in the Program can learn about
it.
ESF-learn is a private list where only ESF staff and participants can subscribe.
It will be used for learning and questions and answers.
The first thing you will learn about a list is how to subscribe and send messages.
Both Lists are run by the same Listserv software listserv@www.enabling org.
(Note there is no final "e" in listserv.)
The addresses of the Lists are esf-educ@www.enabling.org and
esf-learn@www.enabling.org.
When you want to give a command to Listserv to subscribe, change options, or sign
off a list, the mail is addressed to Listserv@www.enabling.org.
When you want to post a message to either lists it is addressed to
esf-educ@www.enabling.org or esf-learn@www.enabling.org
Exercises:
Part 1 Subscribing and sending messages
From your regular e-mail program, send mail to listserv@www.enabling.org with the
following message:
subscribe esf-educ Firstname Lastname
subscribe ESF-learn Firstname Lastname
review esf-educ
review ESF-learn
Depending on network traffic, you should get 4 responses from Listserv within minutes.
Answer these two questions in a message that you mail to the esf-educ list at
esf-educ@www.enabling.org
How were the responses to the esf-educ and ESF-learn different? Why do you think?
What does the review command do?
If you do not understand what to do or something does not work, post that to esf-educ. If
you cannot post to the list, we will establish a temporary phone help line to deal with
startup problems.
Part 2 Using a list to get information
When you have decided on your name for GrassRoots, send a message to the esf-edu list and
your Persona and password will be sent in the mail. You will then be ready to try the
GrassRoots tutorial.
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