More on mailing list configuration
John Reekie, 28 Jul 1999

Note the following carefully:

• If this a private list (diva, diva-cvs, diva-devel, or diva-notify), do not use the Membership Management page to subscribe people. People are automatically subscribed if they are members of this group, and manually subscribing them will get them on the list but they will get weird configuration problems.
• Leave the following fields on the General Options page blank:
  1. "A terse phrase identifying this list"
  2. "An introductory description"

• With your private member list (eg groupname@gigascale.eecs.berkeley.edu), you might prefer to set the option titled "Are replies to a post directed to the original poster or to the list?" to "List". That way you can reply to each message and everyone is automatically in on the discussion. (Don't do this for public lists!)
• The options with the list title and description are now redundant, so don't bother setting them.