How to +Manage your Athena Lists | Who to Contact for +Help | Glossary of List Management +Terms
+ +How to Manage your Athena +Lists
+ +Athena List Management is one of the tools list owners have to +manage their lists. Other tools include blanche and listmaint on +Athena. To get started, you will need MIT Personal Certificates on +your machine. Once you have them, select any function, provide a list +name, and press enter on your keyboard, or 'Go'. Each page of the web +interface has context sensitive help to guide you. [top of help]
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If you do need further assistance with your lists, Athena User Accounts provides +assistance with Athena list concerns, including creating new lists, +modifying lists, and deleting lists. If you have trouble using this +interface to maintain your lists, please contact Accounts at accounts@mit.edu, or +617-253-1325. [top of +help]
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Glossary of List +Management Terms
+ +List Description
A short
+description may be specified for an Athena list. This description is
+displayed for lists which are not marked hidden if list information is
+generated by another Athena user. [top of help]
Mailing List
An Athena list is by
+default a mailing list. That means that the members of the list will
+be mailable through the address listname@mit.edu, which will
+distribute the mail the all the members of the list. Such a list may
+include email addresses for users outside of MIT. Lists can be both a
+mailing list and a group. [top of
+help]
Group
In addition to (or instead of)
+being a mailing list, an Athena list can also be a group. A group can
+be used as an access control list on the AFS file system, for
+example. If you wish to be able to set access permissions on an Athena
+directory or locker for the members of your list, you should choose to
+make it a group. When a list can maintain a file space on Athena, it
+is also has a group ID number.
Note that only Athena users on your list will be able to take +advantage of this feature. If you have any other members on your list, +such as email addresses outside of MIT, they will not be able to +access Athena file systems. [top of +help]
+ +List Administrator(s)
Every Athena
+mailing list must be owned by one or more
+administrators. Administrators have the power to change list
+characteristics. Administrators can be a user or another Athena
+list. [top of help]
List Permissions
These
+describe the state of the list and what users who are not the
+administrator can do with the list. A list's permissions can be viewed
+with the "display list characteristics" option, and edited
+by list owners with the "update list characteristics"
+option.
Last Modification
This tells you
+when the list was last changed in some way and by who. [top of help]
Athena User
Email addresses of the
+form name@mit.edu usually indicate name is an Athena username (also
+sometimes called a Kerberos Name or MIT Network ID). To add an Athena
+user to an Athena list, you enter only member name to the left of the
+@. For example, to add eclapton@mit.edu to an Athena list, provide
+'eclapton' as the member name. [top
+of help]
List
An Athena list is by default a
+mailing list. That means that the members of the list will be mailable
+through the address listname@mit.edu, which will distribute the mail
+the all the members of the list. Such a list may include email
+addresses for users outside of MIT.
List members can be other Athena lists, of the form +listname@mit.edu. To add an Athena list as a member of another Athena +list, enter only the part of the address before the @ symbol. For +example, to add accounts@mit.edu as a member, provide 'accounts' as +the member name. [top of +help]
+ +String
Athena lists often have
+non-MIT users and lists as members. To add an email address that
+contains an @ but is outside of mit.edu, such as
+mitalum@anotherisp.net, you add them as member type string. To add a
+string, provide the complete address, including information on both
+sides of the @. [top of
+help]
Kerberos Principal
+Specifying a list member as a Kerberos principal allows a member to be
+on a list without receiving any email sent to the list. This is a
+rarely used member type. [top of
+help].