Masonic Mailing List Instructions

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[mailbox] 		Created: Fri Sep 19 05:24:21 PDT 1997
Updated: Wed Mar 11 05:26:36 PST 1998

Subscribe

To subscribe to the Masonic mailing list send a message to freemasonry-list-request@masonic.org with the text SUBSCRIBE. You will get back a message confirming your subscription. Save the message!

Unsubscribe

To unsubscribe to the Masonic mailing list, send a message to freemasonry-list-request@masonic.org with the text UNSUBSCRIBE.

Do not send an "unsubscribe" message to the list!! It will tell everyone that you did not take notice nor did you govern yourself accordingly with regard to the instructions here or in the message you were told to save!

Posting Messages

Send the message to freemasonry-list@masonic.org. It will be redistributed to all subscribers. Only subscribers can post to the list.

Digest Mode

To receive just one message per day containing the previous 24 hours' traffic (well, more precisely, a digest is emitted when 30KB of traffic has accumulated), instead of each message individually as it is sent, send a message to freemasonry-list-request@masonic.org with the text SET DIGEST.

Do not send this message to the list!

Vacation Setting

To temporarily suspend receipt of messages from the list, send a message to freemasonry-list-request@masonic.org with the text SET NOMAIL.

Do not send this message to the list!

Resetting to normal

To reset to normal mode from NOMAIL, send a message to freemasonry-list-request@masonic.org with the text SET MAIL.

To reset to normal mode from DIGEST, send a message to freemasonry-list-request@masonic.org with the text SET NODIGEST.

Do not send this message to the list!

Problems

If you encounter problems with list operations, send a message to owner-freemasonry-list@masonic.org with the text describing your problem. You will receive an answer from one of the list administrators.

The List Administrators as of 11 Mar 98 are Brothers:

If you suddenly find yourself unsubscribed to the list, it may be because something has gone wrong with your local mail system, network, or the like, and the administrators are receiving "bounce" messages because mail cannot be delivered to you or to your site. (AOL subscribers are notorious for this when they have not read their email and their mailbox is declared "full.") Do not assume that you have been singled out for mistreatment! Contact the administrators for assistance.

Likewise, if you cannot post to the list, perhaps your system is not sending the same email address as a return-address as the one you subscribed from (this can occur if the system administrators at your site have not configured your mail system correctly after changing operating system versions--it happened to me). Remember that only subscribers can post to the list (this is called a "closed" list), and if your return-address is not registered, you will not be recognized as a subscriber. Contact the administrators as above; they can fix this at the mailing list level (although it would be better if your sysadmins at your system fixed their problem--it's their fault, after all).

Abuse

If you abuse the privileges of the list, such as by posting attachments (the mailer cannot handle the volume of traffic this causes), inappropriate (this includes virus warnings, many of which prove to be hoaxes these days, and for which there are other places on the Net) or hostile material, or similar actions, and you ignore the warnings you will receive about this, the administrators can set you to a NOPOST status. You will be able to read but not post to the list. Or they can UNSUBSCRIBE you and not let you resubscribe. As in Lodge, there is no appeal from the decision of the chair. So behave Masonically!

Posted as a courtesy by Dr. Roger M. Firestone. Back to the main Masonic page.