NYSA hosts several public mailing lists. Detailed instructions are below.
The NYSA list server has three primary lists (ANNOUNCE, MEMBERS and TALK) and deliveries are processed in in a hierarchal order. Messages to ANNOUNCE are also delivered to MEMBERS and TALK. Messages to MEMBERS are also delivered to TALK.
ANNOUNCE is moderated, and only subscribers to MEMBERS and TALK can post to those lists.
So, if you don't want to miss a bit, subscribe to TALK; in addition to TALK posts, you'll get everything from the ANNOUNCE and MEMBERS lists. You'll be able to post to both MEMBERS and TALK.
To skip the informal chat that may come up in TALK, but still participate in discussions, subscribe to MEMBERS; you'll also get ANNOUNCE posts.
You can skip the MEMBERS discussion and just subscribe to ANNOUNCE for meeting and special event postings. ANNOUNCE may also be suitable for redistribution within your organization.
ANNOUNCE, a low volume, moderated list for official NYSA
announcements. Posts to ANNOUNCE are also distributed to to MEMBERS and
TALK. Subscribe to ANNOUNCE if you only want to be notified of meetings
and events.
subscribe: announce-subscribe@list.nysa.org
post: announce@list.nysa.org
MEMBERS, a moderate to low volume, open list (subscriptions
required for posting) for focused discussion on topics of interest
to Systems Administrators. Use TALK for informal
discussion. Posts to MEMBERS are also delivered to TALK so there is
no need to subscribe to both.
subscribe: members-subscribe@list.nysa.org
post: members@list.nysa.org
TALK, a moderate to low volume, open list (subscriptions
required for posting) for both technical and informal discussion of
interest to NYSA members. Subscription will also enable you to post to
MEMBERS.
subscribe: talk-subscribe@list.nysa.org
post: talk@list.nysa.org
JOBS, a moderated list submitted by web form (not yet
functional) and/or email for the posting of openings of Systems
Administration related positions in the try-state area; or, from
companies willing to relocate people from this area. Recruiters, please
so state.
Do not send test messages to the regular lists!
A TEST list has
been created for your convenience.
Send a blank message to the address constructed with "-subscribe"
appended to the list name, to subscribe your regular address; to start
or stop a subscription for an alternate address, add a hyphen and your
address (with '=' instead of '@') after the command word.
To subscribe john@host.domain to TALK, mail:
subscribe: jobs-subscribe@list.nysa.org
post: jobs@list.nysa.org
subscribe: test-subscribe@list.nysa.org
post: test@list.nysa.org
or, to stop the TALK subscription, mail:
A reply to conformation message, is required. Use the "-help" or "-faq" suffix to request respective additional information for list commands.
Plain text messages are the preferred format, certain attachments are automatically removed and a web link should be provided in lieu of messages over a few hundred K. There is spam filtering on these lists. If your legitimate message is rejected with something like "552 we don't accept email with such content" or "554 mail server permanently rejected message" try re-sending with one of the popular free email clients, like mail.yahoo.com or gmail.google.com and/or notify the list owner. In addition, you will not be able to send mail from the countries represented by the following country codes: ae ar br bz cn cz co hk id kr mx ma ng ro sg tw uy -- the country list is subject to change without notice.