Insulin-Pumper's Mail List Administration HOWTO

Michael A. Robinton & Mary Jean Renstrom

v1.13, Sept 16, 1999

This document contains information on HOWTO administer the Insulin-Pumper's mail lists. It is rather long and daunting, but we have tried to cover every possible problem with detailed instructions. Administering the list actually quite easy and typically only involves a couple of e-mail messages a day. If you find that a particular question is not answered here, post the question to the administrative list at: IP-admin@bzs.org

1. What the List Administrator does.

1.1 Administration Requirements
1.2 Administrator Duties
1.3 How do you become an ADMINISTRATOR
1.4 How are administration duty days assigned
1.5 Who's next for duty
1.6 Where to get HELP
1.7 Which E-MAIL program to use?

2. Subscription Process - General Overview

3. Profile Process - General Overview

4. Passwords

5. Answering Common Inquiries

5.1 How to Subscribe and Skimpy Profiles
5.2 How to Unsubscribe Insulin-Pumpers
5.3 What's my PASSWORD?

6. Processing Subscription Requests and Profiles

6.1 Processing the Subscription Request
6.2 Processing the New Member Profile

7. Correcting mistakes - after the fact

7.1 Correcting BOUNCED member mail list request.
7.2 Correcting BOUNCED profiles

8. Practice "test mail lists"

8.1 Administration test mail list IP-test-admin@bzs.org
8.2 Administration PASSWORD
8.3 New Member test mail list IP-test@bzs.org
8.4 CLEAN UP when you are through TESTING

9. Remember to UNSUBSCRIBE from the test accounts

10. APPENDIX A - Using the AOL Mail Program

10.1 Approving a Subscription Request
10.2 Approving a New Member Profile