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bde1652c 1<p><b><font size="-1"><a name="helptop"></a><a href="#manage">How to
2Manage your Athena Lists</a> | <a href="#contact">Who to Contact for
3Help</a> | <a href="#glossary">Glossary of List Management
4Terms</a></font></b></p>
5
6<p><b><font size="+1"><a name="manage"></a>How to Manage your Athena
7Lists</font></b></p>
8
9<p>Athena List Management is one of the tools list owners have to
10manage their lists. Other tools include blanche and listmaint on
11Athena. To get started, you will need MIT <a
12href="http://web.mit.edu/is/help/cert/">Personal Certificates</a> on
13your machine. Once you have them, select any function, provide a list
14name, and press enter on your keyboard, or 'Go'. Each page of the web
15interface has context sensitive help to guide you. <a
16href="#helptop"><font size="-1">[top of help]</font></a></p>
17
18<p>&nbsp; </p> <p><b><font size="+1"><a name="contact"></a>Who to
19Contact for Help</font></b></p>
20
21<p>If you do need further assistance with your lists, <a
22href="http://web.mit.edu/accounts/">Athena User Accounts</a> provides
23assistance with Athena list concerns, including creating new lists,
24modifying lists, and deleting lists. If you have trouble using this
25interface to maintain your lists, please contact Accounts at <a
26href="mailto:accounts@mit.edu">accounts@mit.edu</a>, or
27617-253-1325. <a href="#helptop"><font size="-1">[top of
28help]</font></a></p>
29
30<p>&nbsp;</p>
31
32<p><b><font size="+1"><a name="glossary"></a>Glossary of List
33Management Terms</font></b></p>
34
35<p><a name="description"></a><b>List Description</b><br> A short
36description may be specified for an Athena list. This description is
37displayed for lists which are not marked hidden if list information is
38generated by another Athena user. <a href="#helptop"><font
39size="-1">[top of help]</font></a><br> </p>
40
41<p><a name="maillist"></a><b>Mailing List</b><br> An Athena list is by
42default a mailing list. That means that the members of the list will
43be mailable through the address <em>listname</em>@mit.edu, which will
44distribute the mail the all the members of the list. Such a list may
45include email addresses for users outside of MIT. Lists can be both a
46mailing list and a group. <a href="#helptop"><font size="-1">[top of
47help]</font></a><br> </p>
48
49<p><a name="group"></a><b>Group</b><br> In addition to (or instead of)
50being a mailing list, an Athena list can also be a group. A group can
51be used as an access control list on the AFS file system, for
52example. If you wish to be able to set access permissions on an Athena
53directory or locker for the members of your list, you should choose to
54make it a group. When a list can maintain a file space on Athena, it
55is also has a group ID number. </p>
56
57<p>Note that only Athena users on your list will be able to take
58advantage of this feature. If you have any other members on your list,
59such as email addresses outside of MIT, they will not be able to
60access Athena file systems. <a href="#helptop"><font size="-1">[top of
61help]</font></a></p>
62
63<p><a name="admin"></a><b>List Administrator(s)</b><br> Every Athena
64mailing list must be owned by one or more
65administrators. Administrators have the power to change list
66characteristics. Administrators can be a user or another Athena
67list. <a href="#helptop"><font size="-1">[top of help]</font></a></p>
68
69<p><a name="permissions"></a><b>List Permissions</b><br> These
70describe the state of the list and what users who are not the
71administrator can do with the list. A list's permissions can be viewed
72with the &quot;display list characteristics&quot; option, and edited
73by list owners with the &quot;update list characteristics&quot;
74option.</p>
75
76<ul>
77 <li><b>active</b> -- the list is live and usable</li>
78
79 <li><b>inactive</b> -- the list has been turned off, is still in the
80system, but mail sent will bounce and/or group permissions will not
81work</li>
82
83 <li><b>public</b> -- any user can add themselves to this list</li>
84
85 <li><b>private</b> -- only the administrator can add users to the list</li>
86
87 <li><b>visible</b> -- any user can view basic information about a
88list, such as membership and administrators</li>
89
90 <li><b>hidden</b> -- list information is hidden, but can be viewed
91by the list administrators </li>
92
93</ul>
94
95<a href="#helptop"><font size="-1">[top of help]</font></a>
96
97<p><a name="lastmod"></a><b>Last Modification</b><br> This tells you
98when the list was last changed in some way and by who. <a
99href="#helptop"><font size="-1">[top of help]</font></a></p>
100
101<p><a name="user"></a><b>Athena User</b><br> Email addresses of the
102form name@mit.edu usually indicate name is an Athena username (also
103sometimes called a Kerberos Name or MIT Network ID). To add an Athena
104user to an Athena list, you enter only member name to the left of the
105@. For example, to add eclapton@mit.edu to an Athena list, provide
106'eclapton' as the member name. <a href="#helptop"><font size="-1">[top
107of help]</font></a></p>
108
109<p><a name="list"></a><b>List</b><br> An Athena list is by default a
110mailing list. That means that the members of the list will be mailable
111through the address listname@mit.edu, which will distribute the mail
112the all the members of the list. Such a list may include email
113addresses for users outside of MIT.</p>
114
115<p>List members can be other Athena lists, of the form
116listname@mit.edu. To add an Athena list as a member of another Athena
117list, enter only the part of the address before the @ symbol. For
118example, to add accounts@mit.edu as a member, provide 'accounts' as
119the member name. <a href="#helptop"><font size="-1">[top of
120help]</font></a></p>
121
122<p><a name="string"></a><b>String</b><br> Athena lists often have
123non-MIT users and lists as members. To add an email address that
124contains an @ but is outside of mit.edu, such as
125mitalum@anotherisp.net, you add them as member type string. To add a
126string, provide the complete address, including information on both
127sides of the @. <a href="#helptop"><font size="-1">[top of
128help]</font></a></p>
129
130<p><a name="kerbprincipal"></a><b>Kerberos Principal</b><br>
131Specifying a list member as a Kerberos principal allows a member to be
132on a list without receiving any email sent to the list. This is a
133rarely used member type. <a href="#helptop"><font size="-1">[top of
134help].</font></a></p>
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