Mailing lists

From ANU Food Co-op Wiki

We currently have four email mailing lists. Click on the links below to subscribe (or, if you're already a member, unsubscribe or change your options).

• members_announce@anu.foodco-op.com: Every member of the Co-op is on this one. It's a low-volume list for important announcements (no discussion) about what's happening at the Co-op.
• members_discuss@anu.foodco-op.com: The companion to members_announce, this list is open to all members of the Co-op, and anyone on the list can post to it. This is the place to discuss anything and everything to do with the Co-op with the largest audience. People choose to be on this (an invitation is sent to them when they become a member) and so there are not so many people on it as on members_announce.
• co-ordinators@anu.foodco-op.com: A discussion list for all co-ordinators.
• management_collective@anu.foodco-op.com: A discussion list for the management collective.

Archives

Archives for all of the above lists are also available:

• Members announce archives: http://lists.anu.foodco-op.com/pipermail/members_announce-anu.foodco-op.com/
• Members discuss archives: http://lists.anu.foodco-op.com/pipermail/members_discuss-anu.foodco-op.com/
• Co-ordinators archives: http://lists.anu.foodco-op.com/pipermail/co-ordinators-anu.foodco-op.com/
• Management Collective archives: http://lists.anu.foodco-op.com/pipermail/management_collective-anu.foodco-op.com/

Administration

If you are in the management collective or IT working group, you probably know the passwords for managing these lists, or at least know who to ask. Once you've got the passwords, here's how these lists are managed:

Every member (and anyone else who wants to be) is added to the members_announce list and invited to subscribe to members_discuss. The other two lists are managed by the co-ordinators' co-ordinator, and some random IT person, respectively.

To add or invite people:

1. log in to the relevant administration area (see links below) and go to 'Membership Management / Mass Subscription';
2. make sure "Subscribe these users now or invite them?" is set to the correct one;
3. leave the other two options at the top there as they are;
4. paste the new addresses into the upper text area;
5. don't worry about a message in the lower text area, there is a suitable default one for each list;
6. click "Submit your changes";
7. go to the "Membership List" page, scroll to the bottom, and set everyone's moderation bit, including those members not currently visible to on;
8. search for anu@foodco-op.com and set its moderation bit to off.

Removing people is much the same, except you (of course) use the "Mass Removal" option in the main menu.

The most common task with these lists is to add and invite new (and renewing) members to 'announce' and 'discuss'. To do this, follow the instructions above, and remember that you will have to log in to two administration areas to do this.

See also

• The IT Working Group.