Starting a Discussion List at ISU

This guide is primarily set up for Indiana State University staff and faculty who wish to set up a discussion list here at ISU. All outside inquiries should be directed toward your Internet provider.

A discussion list service can provide groups of people a method for communicating.  Discussion lists can be set up for a number of purposes. For instance, you may wish to set up a discussion list for faculty in a specific department to share curriculum changes or faculty on a specific committee to work on reports.  You can also set up a discussion list for students in your classes.

Email messages sent to a discussion list will be delivered to all members of that list.  In addition, you can set up discussion list archives on the web. These are handy when you want to keep a record of what messages have been sent, or you would like the messages to be available to people who are not members of the list. You may view some discussion list archives by visiting our discussion list archive page.

You may also control what is sent out on a discussion list by "moderating" it. You can moderate a list by having all mail messages sent to you before it is sent out to the rest of the list members.

You can set up a discussion list so that anyone can subscribe.  You may also choose to be in control of who is subscribed to your list by adding people to the list when you set it up and adding other names to it as requested.

ISU faculty and staff may request a discussion list by filling out this handy web form.  Once your discussion list is set up, please review the Listproc Instructions page for information on maintaining your list via the web interface and email.
 

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