ISC "How To" instructions:

How to Create a Listserv Mailing List for Your Class

Step 1: Request the creation of your Listserv mailing list

Call the Help Desk at (215) 204-8000 or send email to help@temple.edu.

You will need to include the following information about the Listserv you wish to create:

List Information

• List Name (HISTORY-101) *
• List Title (History 101 Discussion Group) *

Primary List Owner

• First and last name (John Doe) *
• Email address (jdoe@astro.temple.edu) *

Secondary List Owner(s) (optional)

• Non-quiet owner's first and last name  (see notes below for an explanation)
• Non-quiet owner's email address
• Quiet owner's first and last name
• Quiet owner's email address

* Required fields

Notes:

• Examples are shown in italics
• Quiet list owners do not receive any delivery error messages or other administrative mail
• At least one list owner must have a Temple email address
• All listservs must have at least one permanent faculty or staff member as an owner

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Should list information be shown on the http://listmail.temple.edu/archives/ page? Yes or No

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How do you want subscription requests to be handled:

1. The list owner(s) must approve or initiate subscription requests
2. Anyone can subscribe to the list (without approval)
3. Only people with a Temple email address can subscribe to the list

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Should archived postings be available only to subscribers and password protected? Yes or No

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Do you want this list to be used only for posting announcements? (selecting "Yes" will prevent list subscribers from posting directly to the list) Yes or No

If this list is intended only for posting announcements by you or someone else, please answer the following two questions:

• First and last name of the person who can post announcements (other than the list owners)
• This person's email address

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Should information about who is subscribed to the list be available to:

1. Only the list's owner(s)
2. Anyone who is subscribed to the list

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List's intended use:

• Course-related
• Student organization
• Professional organization
• Internal university business
• Personal interest
• Other

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You will be notified by email when the mailing list has been created.

Once created, your listserv will have the following URL:

http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/(your list name).html

Helpful Hint:  Include the hyperlink in an e-mail to your students and put a hyperlink to it on your course web site.

Online Quick Reference Guide
Details use of the new Listserv web interface. A useful hyperlink for your students to begin with as well as yourself (hardcopies available at the Help Desk if necessary):

Helpful Hint:  Include the following hyperlink to the Listserv Quick Reference Guide in an e-mail to your students and put a hyperlink to it on your course web site:

http://cs.temple.edu/listserv/b3u.html

 

Step 4: Test drive the new Listserv web interface

If you would like to take the Listserv web interface for a test run, you can practice by joining the TEST2-L listserv, a test mailing list. In this way you can practice sending messages without posting them your actual course while you become familiar with the features. Unsubscribe from the list when you are done to avoid unwanted messages.

http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/test2-l.html

For more information about Listserv, and to access other Listserv mailing lists visit the following link:

http://listserv.temple.edu

To access other public mailing lists, click on the ACCESS LIST WEB SITES hyperlink. Note that course mailing lists are private lists, and will not be listed under the public mailing list directory. To access a class mailing list you must know the URL of the list's web site, as in Step 2 above.

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