Mailing List How-To's & Best Practices

To join the FSFTN General Mailing List, do the following steps :-

• Visit the subscription page here
• Read the description of the Mailing List and get to know what the list is for and suits your interest
• Under the subscription section in the screen, enter your email address, name and password (password is useful to manage your subscription preferences)
• After entering all the necessary details, Click on Subscribe
• After this, your subscription request will be sent to the mailing list moderator and will be acted upon.
• After confirmation, you will be receiving a confirmation email with other instructions regarding the mailing list.
• You are successfully added to the mailing list.

To unsubscribe from the Mailing List, do the following steps :-

• Visit the Mailing List options page here
• Enter your subscription email address and the password to enter into your configuration page
• After logged in, Click Unsubscribe from the unsubscribing section of the page
• After unsubscription, you will be receiving a confirmation email to your email address
• You are unsubscribed from the mailing list.

In case you don't have your password, do the following steps :-

• You can as for a password reminder from the same page here after entering your email address in the text field
• You can also ask for unsubscription without logging in, just by entering your email address and click on Unsubscribe
• In that case, you will be sent a email for confirmation. Just reply to the email without changing the subject of the email.
• You will be unsubscribed successfully after that.

Note :- The above procedure can be applied for all the public mailing lists under FSFTN running on GNU Mailman. Just the mailing list name at the end of the URL's need to be replaced.