Using the mailing-list lbnc@listes.epfl.ch
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Messages sent to the address lbnc@listes.epfl.ch are transmitted to all the list's subscribers.Subscription to lbnc@listes.epfl.ch
To subscribe to the mailing-list lbnc@listes.epfl.ch and receive the messages sent to it, just send an E-mail (its content is unimportant) to the address:lbnc-subscribe@listes.epfl.ch
The software managing the list will answer with a message containing a text along these lines:
To confirm that you would like
your_name@xx.yy.zz
added to this mailing list, please send an empty reply to this address:
lbnc-sc.950281983.mgoifceebaalgongomon@listes.epfl.ch
Your mailer should have a Reply feature that uses this address automatically.
This confirmation serves two purposes. First, it verifies that I am able
to get mail through to you. Second, it protects you in case someone
forges a subscription request in your name.
To confirm your subscription, you should answer with an E-mail (again,
its content is unimportant) to the given address. In the example above,
it is
lbnc-sc.950281983.mgoifceebaalgongomon@listes.epfl.ch,
but the 950281983 and
mgoifceebaalgongomon parts will be different in each
particular case. This makes forged subscriptions virtually impossible.
The software tries to determine your E-mail address and tells you what it think it is (it would be your_name@xx.yy.zz in the above example). It may happen that you would like to use another address (e.g. because it is your physical address user@machine.epfl.ch and not your logical address firstname.name@epfl.ch). You can do it by changing the @ sign to a = sign in the address you would like to use and putting this before the @ sign of the subscription address. As an example, to use the address firstname.name@epfl.ch, you would send a message to:
lbnc-subscribe-firstname.name=epfl.ch@listes.epfl.ch
The access to lbnc@listes.epfl.ch is restricted
Subscription to the lbnc@listes.epfl.ch list is restricted. This means that after the subscription process just outlined, the list's owners must agree to your being a member before you start receiving the list's messages (you will get an E-mail confirming that this has happened).Unsubscribing from lbnc@listes.epfl.ch
The procedure to stop receiving lbnc@listes.epfl.ch's messages is pretty much the same you had to use for your subscription: just send an E-mail (content doesn't matter) to the address:lbnc-unsubscribe@listes.epfl.ch
In case you subscribed with an explicit address (e.g. firstname.name@epfl.ch), you would use instead:
lbnc-unsubscribe-firstname.name=epfl.ch@listes.epfl.ch
Just as in the subscription procedure, you will receive an answer requesting that you confirm your wish to unsubscribe by sending a message to a a complicated address. The purpose of this is again to avoid being removed from the mailing-list by a malicious person.
WWW documentation about lbnc@listes.epfl.ch
The owners of the mailing-list lbnc@listes.epfl.ch have set-up some documentation about the content, the purpose, the etiquette, etc. of the list at this URL: