B-Greek mail options and how to change them

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Sep 7 09:26:19 EDT 1999


IDOU MUSTHRION hUMIN LEGW!

I've been asked frequently for help by persons wanting to change their
mail-receipt option so that they can stop mail from coming in to their
mailbox while away temporarily--WITHOUT unsubscribing. This is really very
easy to do at the B-Greek website.

To go to the website, type in the following into the URL slot in your
browser (if you're using Eudora or one of the more sophisticated browsers
to read your mail, you can probably just click on this URL and go direclty
there):

http://franklin.oit.unc.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=b-greek&text_mode=0

There you must login with your e-address and password (and if you've
forgotten your password, there's a place on the page to indicate that by
filling in your e-address; your password will be sent you by e-mail).

Then click and you'll come to a menu with various options; click on "Your
Settings" and you'll open a page containing your settings; at "Status" you
can click on the pop-up menu and choose one of the options described thus:

* receive mail as it is contributed - as soon as someone contributes a
message to the mailing list, the user will receive a copy of that message.
This option is commonly known by other programs as "mail".

* periodic digest - each night, around 1 in the morning, the user will
receive a single email message containing all the messages contributed to
the mailing list that day. At the top of the message will be a numbered
list of the subjects in that digest, followed by the complete messages
themselves. This option is commonly known by other programs as "digest".

* periodic index of subject - each night, around 1 in the morning, the user
will receive a single email message containing all the subject lines of all
the messages contributed to the mailing list that day. If any of the
messages interest the user, the bottom of the index gives the email command
that will retrieve the bodies of the messages.

* receive no mail - no email is sent to the user. The user is free to go
the Lyris Web Interface whenever they want, and read the full text of the
messages there. This setting is also useful for people who want the ability
to contribute to a mailing list, but do not care to see the contributions
to the mailing list. This option is commonly known by other programs as
"nomail".

Use the pop-up button to choose the option you want (presumably "receive no
mail").

Then click on the "Save" button at the bottom left below the settings panels.

Anytime that you wish, you may go to the web site and change it back to
your previous option--or even change it to or from "periodic digest" to one
of the other options.

This is really a very simple process--more or less intuitive, but some
people seem to find it a lot easier if they are "walked through" it the
first time they use it. Of course any list-administrator can make these
changes for you (since we have access to everyone's settings), but the
procedure we would follow is identical to what you can do for yourself--and
although we're glad to be helpful when we can and this is not a
time-consuming procedure, we do have some things to do that we'd rather be
doing.


Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics/Washington University
One Brookings Drive/St. Louis, MO, USA 63130/(314) 935-4018
Home: 7222 Colgate Ave./St. Louis, MO 63130/(314) 726-5649
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu 
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