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bde1652c | 1 | <p><b><font size="-1"><a name="helptop"></a><a href="#manage">How to |
2 | Manage your Athena Lists</a> | <a href="#contact">Who to Contact for | |
3 | Help</a> | <a href="#glossary">Glossary of List Management | |
4 | Terms</a></font></b></p> | |
5 | ||
6 | <p><b><font size="+1"><a name="manage"></a>How to Manage your Athena | |
7 | Lists</font></b></p> | |
8 | ||
9 | <p>Athena List Management is one of the tools list owners have to | |
10 | manage their lists. Other tools include blanche and listmaint on | |
11 | Athena. To get started, you will need MIT <a | |
12 | href="http://web.mit.edu/is/help/cert/">Personal Certificates</a> on | |
13 | your machine. Once you have them, select any function, provide a list | |
14 | name, and press enter on your keyboard, or 'Go'. Each page of the web | |
15 | interface has context sensitive help to guide you. <a | |
16 | href="#helptop"><font size="-1">[top of help]</font></a></p> | |
17 | ||
18 | <p> </p> <p><b><font size="+1"><a name="contact"></a>Who to | |
19 | Contact for Help</font></b></p> | |
20 | ||
21 | <p>If you do need further assistance with your lists, <a | |
22 | href="http://web.mit.edu/accounts/">Athena User Accounts</a> provides | |
23 | assistance with Athena list concerns, including creating new lists, | |
24 | modifying lists, and deleting lists. If you have trouble using this | |
25 | interface to maintain your lists, please contact Accounts at <a | |
26 | href="mailto:accounts@mit.edu">accounts@mit.edu</a>, or | |
27 | 617-253-1325. <a href="#helptop"><font size="-1">[top of | |
28 | help]</font></a></p> | |
29 | ||
30 | <p> </p> | |
31 | ||
32 | <p><b><font size="+1"><a name="glossary"></a>Glossary of List | |
33 | Management Terms</font></b></p> | |
34 | ||
35 | <p><a name="description"></a><b>List Description</b><br> A short | |
36 | description may be specified for an Athena list. This description is | |
37 | displayed for lists which are not marked hidden if list information is | |
38 | generated by another Athena user. <a href="#helptop"><font | |
39 | size="-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 | |
42 | default a mailing list. That means that the members of the list will | |
43 | be mailable through the address <em>listname</em>@mit.edu, which will | |
44 | distribute the mail the all the members of the list. Such a list may | |
45 | include email addresses for users outside of MIT. Lists can be both a | |
46 | mailing list and a group. <a href="#helptop"><font size="-1">[top of | |
47 | help]</font></a><br> </p> | |
48 | ||
49 | <p><a name="group"></a><b>Group</b><br> In addition to (or instead of) | |
50 | being a mailing list, an Athena list can also be a group. A group can | |
51 | be used as an access control list on the AFS file system, for | |
52 | example. If you wish to be able to set access permissions on an Athena | |
53 | directory or locker for the members of your list, you should choose to | |
54 | make it a group. When a list can maintain a file space on Athena, it | |
55 | is also has a group ID number. </p> | |
56 | ||
57 | <p>Note that only Athena users on your list will be able to take | |
58 | advantage of this feature. If you have any other members on your list, | |
59 | such as email addresses outside of MIT, they will not be able to | |
60 | access Athena file systems. <a href="#helptop"><font size="-1">[top of | |
61 | help]</font></a></p> | |
62 | ||
63 | <p><a name="admin"></a><b>List Administrator(s)</b><br> Every Athena | |
64 | mailing list must be owned by one or more | |
65 | administrators. Administrators have the power to change list | |
66 | characteristics. Administrators can be a user or another Athena | |
67 | list. <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 | |
70 | describe the state of the list and what users who are not the | |
71 | administrator can do with the list. A list's permissions can be viewed | |
72 | with the "display list characteristics" option, and edited | |
73 | by list owners with the "update list characteristics" | |
74 | option.</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 | |
80 | system, but mail sent will bounce and/or group permissions will not | |
81 | work</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 | |
88 | list, such as membership and administrators</li> | |
89 | ||
90 | <li><b>hidden</b> -- list information is hidden, but can be viewed | |
91 | by 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 | |
98 | when the list was last changed in some way and by who. <a | |
99 | href="#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 | |
102 | form name@mit.edu usually indicate name is an Athena username (also | |
103 | sometimes called a Kerberos Name or MIT Network ID). To add an Athena | |
104 | user 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 | |
107 | of help]</font></a></p> | |
108 | ||
109 | <p><a name="list"></a><b>List</b><br> An Athena list is by default a | |
110 | mailing list. That means that the members of the list will be mailable | |
111 | through the address listname@mit.edu, which will distribute the mail | |
112 | the all the members of the list. Such a list may include email | |
113 | addresses for users outside of MIT.</p> | |
114 | ||
115 | <p>List members can be other Athena lists, of the form | |
116 | listname@mit.edu. To add an Athena list as a member of another Athena | |
117 | list, enter only the part of the address before the @ symbol. For | |
118 | example, to add accounts@mit.edu as a member, provide 'accounts' as | |
119 | the member name. <a href="#helptop"><font size="-1">[top of | |
120 | help]</font></a></p> | |
121 | ||
122 | <p><a name="string"></a><b>String</b><br> Athena lists often have | |
123 | non-MIT users and lists as members. To add an email address that | |
124 | contains an @ but is outside of mit.edu, such as | |
125 | mitalum@anotherisp.net, you add them as member type string. To add a | |
126 | string, provide the complete address, including information on both | |
127 | sides of the @. <a href="#helptop"><font size="-1">[top of | |
128 | help]</font></a></p> | |
129 | ||
130 | <p><a name="kerbprincipal"></a><b>Kerberos Principal</b><br> | |
131 | Specifying a list member as a Kerberos principal allows a member to be | |
132 | on a list without receiving any email sent to the list. This is a | |
133 | rarely used member type. <a href="#helptop"><font size="-1">[top of | |
134 | help].</font></a></p> |