Help: Subscribing to E-mail Discussion Groups RETURN to Discussion Groups You should send all administrative commands, like subscribe, to the administrative address (usually LISTSERV@host) not to the list address (the list's name@host). A mail server is a clerical robot that maintains the list (most likely it'll be LISTSERV, but there's also Listproc, Mailbase, MailServ, Maiser, and Majordomo). The host is the address where the computer running the list is located (for example, the Screen-L list is at the University of Alabama address: ua1vm.ua.edu). To subscribe to a list, send your message to listserv@host, leave the subject line blank (or type "no subject") and in the body of the message type subscribe listname your name. For example, to join the discussion list screen-l@ua1vm.ua.edu, send an e-mail message containing the command subscribe screen-l Agnes Varda to listserv@ua1vm.ua.edu Again, many mailing lists are run by the LISTSERV mailer program, but there are others and some have minor differences: Listproc: subscribe listname Firstname Lastname (e.g., subscribe vidpro-l Hans Lucas) Mailbase: JOIN listname Firstname Lastname (e.g., join web-support Paul Henning) Mailserv: subscribe listname Firstname Lastname (e.g., subscribe popcult Maya Deren ) Maiser: subscribe listname (e.g., subscribe UAWebs) Majordomo: subscribe listname (e.g., subscribe film-theory) Also, some subscription commands are sent to listname-requests@host. Just subscribe the same way as you would to a LISTSERV in this case. Finally, sometimes an actual human is operating a list without a mailer program handling the administrative tasks. In this case you should just follow the instructions specific to that list.

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