-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Your FreeLists Mailing List Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 20:31:44 -0500 (EST) From: FreeLists Staff <staff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: thegleep@xxxxxxxxxxx Welcome to the FreeLists community! Your FreeLists mailing list is ready for use. Please read this document carefully and keep it for future reference. All functions of your list can be controlled through the web by logging in at //www.freelists.org/login.html To take full advantage of all FreeLists features, please login and take a look around. Many special features that may appeal to your users are not turned on by default. Please send a test message to your list to make sure things are functioning correctly. Some important starter info: - To post on your mailing list, simply send email to elderonmain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - Users can subscribe to your list by sending email to elderonmain-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by visiting your list page at //www.freelists.org/list/elderonmain The web-based administration suite allows you to add subscribers manually. If you have a large list (i.e., thousands of users), feel free to email staff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with your subscriber list -- we can add your subscribers manually (see below). - Do not unsubscribe from your own list -- doing so will render you unable to make configuration changes and perform other administrative tasks. - Full documentation of the online administration system is available at //www.freelists.org/help/. We encourage you to get the most out of the web interfaces, and we encourage subscribers to do the same. Please let your list members know about the advantages of exploring the FreeLists Web Login. As an administrator, you can configure site preferences through the FreeLists Portal Administrator, and list preferences through the administrative portion of the FreeLists Web Login. See //www.freelists.org/login.html for more information. - View your list's information at //www.freelists.org/list/elderonmain and your list's webpage (once you set it up) at //www.freelists.org/webpage/elderonmain - Online, searchable archives of your list are available at //www.freelists.org/archive/elderonmain Each list's archive is automatically updated as new messages come in. - There's a FAQ at //www.freelists.org/wiki/the_faq that you might want to let your subscribers in on. - There are some general guidlines to configuring your list at //www.freelists.org/help/recommended-config.html Any other questions should be routed to freelists-users, described below. - Got a large subscriber list? We can help you subscribe them all! Subscribing 10,000 users through the web interface can be quite a hassle and take a long time. We can do it for you behind-the-scenes: just email staff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx your subscriber list (in a plain text file, one email address only per line) and we'll subscribe the users manually. - We understand that you'll probably want to send some test messages to your new list to try out the features before putting the list into production. These messages will appear in the archives, so we've provided a feature that allows you to remove specific messages at will. Just log in to the Portal Administrator and go to "Archive Settings." If you have any questions or comments, at any point, please feel free to contact us by visiting //www.freelists.org/contact.html or by emailing staff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- The FreeLists Team