For the below commands, the following listnames may be substituted: curl, artshum, biology, mcs or urpd.

To subscribe to a list, send an email with no message to subscribe-listname@lists.cur.org or listname-subscribe@lists.cur.org.

Members of the list-serv can post to the list by sending their message to: listname@lists.cur.org

To unsubscribe from a list, send an email message to leave-listname@lists.cur.org or listname-leave@lists.cur.org

To change your membership settings for a list, compose an email to listmanager@lists.cur.org and use the set command:

set listname [option]

To change your email address, use the email= option. The syntax for this command is:

set listname email=new-email-address

For example, if you are currently subscribed to jazztalk with the address bob@example.comand want to be subscribed as bjones@example.com you would send the command:
set jazztalk email=bjones@example.com

To change the type of messages you receive, use the set command with one of these keywords:

Mail - Receive mail as it is contributed.
Digest- Receive daily digest with all the messages of the day.
MIMEDigest – Receive daily digest with all the messages of the day in MIME format.
Index - Receive daily index of the subject lines of the messages of the day.
Nomail - Receive no mail.

Example:
set jazztalk digest

You can set your password with the pw=password command. For instance, if you do not currently have a password, to set it on the jazztalk list to be hamburger:

set jazztalk pw=hamburger

To change your password, you must first specify your current password with oldpw=password. For example, if your current password on the jazztalk list is flower and you want to change it to hamburger, you would write:

set jazztalk oldpw=flower pw=hamburger

Including a password in an email message is inherently insecure. If you are concerned about password security, do not use email commands that require a login command.

To set whether or not you receive a message confirming the message was sent, use set with one of these keywords:

ack - When contributing to the mailing list, receive a confirmation message each message was distributed.
noack - When contributing to the mailing list, do not receive a confirmation message that the message was distributed.

Example:
set jazztalk ack

To determine whether or not you receive a copy of your own postings, use the set command with one of these keywords:

repro - Receive a copy of messages you contribute to a mailing list when the messages are distributed to list (this is the default)
norepro - Do not receive copies of your own postings.