xml-dev - list policies

["Hester, Alan" <Alan.Hester@usa.xerox.com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Hester, Alan 
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 9:28 AM
To: 'Rzepa, Henry'
Subject: RE: XML-DEV LIST NOW OPERATIONAL


Henry (& list members),
The unsubscribe policy for the list has been set to open meaning that any
list member can unsubscribe themselves from the list with no confirmation
required. The subscription policy has been set to open+confirm. For a new
subscriber to be added to the list, they must send email to xml-dev@xml.org
with the following in the BODY of the email (not in the subject): subscribe
xml-dev. Majordomo will then send a confirmation notice back to the email
address that is to be added. For the new subscription to take effect, the
new subscriber must respond to this confirmation notice by following the
instructions supplied in the email from majordomo.

As you mentioned, the list membership has been transferred, so existing
subscribers do not have to resubscribe to the list.

Thank you for your patience and help with this transition.

Alan Hester
Chief Information Officer
OASIS 
(Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards)
alan.hester@oasis-open.org


>> Just to clarify, the xml-dev and xml-dev-digest list of subscribers
>> as it was at Imperial College this  Monday (31/1/00)  is what
>> was transferred to  OASIS.   If you ARE on this
>> list, and do not wish to be, you have to send a request to  
>> majordomo@xml.org to be removed.
>> 
>> I am not yet aware of the policy being operated. There are several
>> alternatives, and hopefully this will be clarified on this 
>> forum within
>> a few hours (over to you Laura!)
>> 
>> (a) If the list is configured as  OPEN, anyone can submit a request
>> to majordomo@xml.org, which takes the form
>> 
>> unsubscribe xml-dev   
>> 
>> You have to submit the request from precisely
>> the same address as is subscribed (which caught a lot of people out
>> before!) An optional form is 
>> 
>> unsubscribe xml-dev  email@address  
>> 
>> which will be passed to a moderator
>> for their action (and does not take effect  until they 
>> perform this action)
>> 
>> (b)  AUTO, which takes the form
>> 
>> unsubscribe xml-dev  email@address.  
>> 
>> This option is unlikely, since you could unsubscribe  ANYONE from the
>> list without their approval
>> 
>> (c) CLOSED, which takes the mandatory form
>> 
>> unsubscribe xml-dev  or
>> unsubscribe xml-dev  email@address 
>> 
>> This requires  moderation, and may take a little while to action. 
>> 
>> A similar set of policies exist for subscription to the 
>> list. No doubt OASIS
>> will clarify this appropriately.
>> 
>> 
>> Henry Rzepa. +44 (0)20 7594 5774 (Office) +44 (0)20 7594 5804 (Fax)
>> Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, London, SW7  2AY, UK. 
>> http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/
>>