Info for Maintaining GEO email and ListServ email lists

If you have trouble call the UITS Support Center at 855-6789.

To manage the GEO web account go to: www.iub.edu/~geo/documents/geoWebMaintenance.html. 
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geo@indiana.edu email account:

We have an email account which should be checked periodically.  Due to the fact that the
university might want to read our email, we probably shouldn't use this account for any sensitive
information.  If you don't like using webmail (webmail.iu.edu), I suggest that you use an IMAP
email reader like Eudora, Mozilla Mail, Thunderbird, Netscape Mail, or PINE.  Read the IU
Knowledge Base for info on how to set up an IMAP client:
http://www.kb.indiana.edu/data/anhe.html  

It is not recommend that you use Outlook or Outlook Express, because of all the viruses designed
for MS email programs. Netscape Mail is available on all campus computers and can also be
freely downloaded at http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/
I like Mozilla Mail and Thunderbird because they are Free Software--they can be downloaded at
http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/ and http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ 
respectively.

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GEO Email lists

GEO has 4 email lists: 
geo_members@indiana.edu
geo_organizers@indiana.edu
geo_posters@indiana.edu 
geosteering@lists.riseup.net
 
The geo_members list is for general announcements to the GEO membership.  To keep email to a
minimum, only people on the geo_posters lists have the right to post messages to the
geo_members list.  If someone else tries to post to the geo_members list, the message will
bounce to the geo@indiana.edu email account.  

The geo_organizers is for GEO organizers and anyone subscribed to the list can post to it. 

Anyone on the geo_posters list can send messages to the geo_members and the geo_organizers
email lists.  Being subscribed to the geo_posters list only gives you posting rights, not reading
rights, to geo_members and geo_organizers.  This allows people on the steering committee to
post to these lists using their non-IU accounts, but not receive email from these lists. 

The geo_steering@indiana.edu list is no longer used because we feared that the IU
administration might try to read our email.  Instead, people on the GEO steering committee
communicate through the geosteering@lists.riseup.net list.  All members of the GEO steering
committee are subscribed to the geosteering@lists.riseup.net using an email account outside the
IU system.  If you don't already have non-IU email account, you can set one up with
www.riseup.net.  To subscribe to geosteering@lists.riseup.net, go to
https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/geosteering, click on "subscribe" and enter your email address. 
I assume that new subscribers have to be approved, before they are accepted on the list.  (I didn't
set up this list, so I'm not sure how it works). 
 
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Maintaining IU ListServ email lists via the web

If you want to add, delete, or change any subscriber, go to:
https://listserv.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/wa-iub.exe

And click on "Mailing List Management Interface"
After you enter geo@indiana.edu and the password, then click on "follow this link" in the next
page. (If you have set up a cookie to log you in as a different person, you will need to click on 
"Log out" and log back in as geo@indiana.edu).

Then you will be in the list management page.  

To add somebody, select the list name from the drop down box, then click on "Subscribers".
In the next page, enter the name and address and click on "Add to GEO_listname"

To unsubscribe someone, enter their username in the box under "Examine or delete a
subscription" and click on "Search in GEO_listname"
If the name is found in the list, you can delete it by clicking on "Delete" or "Delete from All
Lists"

To get a complete list of subscribers, click on "in a browser window" under the section "Review
the list membership." 

For more info on ListServ, go to http://www.kb.indiana.edu and do a search for "listserv"

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Maintaining IU Listserv lists via email:

To subscribe someone to a list, send an email to listserv@indiana.edu with the command in the
body of the message:
    ADD listname emailaddress [fullname]        //anything in [] is optional

For example, the comand to add Jane Doe and John Hancock to the juggling_steering list would
be:
    add geo_members jdoe@indiana.edu Jane Doe
    add geo_members jhancock@indiana John Hancock

To unsubscribe someone from a list, send an email to listserv@indiana.edu with the command in
the body of the message:
    DEL listname emailaddress

For example,  the comand to delete John Doe from the geo_members list would be:
    del geo_members jdoe@indiana.edu

To get the list of subscribers to a list and the configuration of a list, send an email to
listserv@indiana.edu with the command in the body of the message:
     GET listname

To change the list of subscribers or the configuration of the list, edit the results that you got with
the GET command.  Then send them back to listserv@indiana.edu with the command in the body
of the message.
    PUTALL listname
    ...[new configuration and subscriber list]

In order to add someone as an owner of a list, add the line to the configuration of list:
    OWNER= emailaddress [fullname]        //anything in [] is optional

For example, if you want both Jane Doe and John Hancock to maintain the list, add the lines:
    owner= jdoe@indiana.edu Jane Doe
    owner= jhancock@indiana.edu John Hancock

The listserv program monitors email addresses which bounce messages.  After five days, those
address will be removed from the list. 

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