SuperCollider mailing lists
Subscribing and unsubscribing
To subscribe send an email to majordomo@lists.bham.ac.ukcontaining the text:
subscribe sc-users or subscribe sc-dev
To unsubscribe:
unsubscribe sc-users or unsubscribe sc-dev
You may also use the following links which will open a correctly formatted message in your default email client:
subscribe sc-users
unsubscribe sc-users
subscribe sc-dev
unsubscribe sc-dev
Troubleshooting
Please do not send messages to the lists about subscribing and unsubscribing. If you have any problems contact the list owner at owner-sc-users@lists.bham.ac.uk or owner-sc-dev@lists.bham.ac.uk. Before doing that however, please note the following when unsubscribing:
You need to unsubscribe from the address you used for subscribing.
In some cases there may be a short delay after unsubscribing due to the distributed nature of the bham listserv system, and the need for updated subscriber lists to propagate to all relevant mail servers.
Majordomo sometimes chokes on html formatting. If you get a failed message that looks something like the text below then you should try again using a plain text message. (In Mail.app for instance see under the Format menu.)
>>>> unsubscribe sc-users<br>
**** unsubscribe: unknown list 'sc-users<br>'.
Gmail Issues
Gmail users often make the mistake of subscribing the gmail.com version of their address and sending from the googlemail.com version or vice versa. Majordomo doesn't know about Google's double address quirk, so you need to send from the address you subscribed or it will bounce. If remembering this is too much trouble, add the other address to sc-users-acl or sc-dev-acl (see below) and you'll be able to send from that too.
Another issue is that Gmail seems to have an option which edits out your own posts when receiving mail from listservs. People sometimes think this means their subscription has failed.
Nabble Issues
Despite endless warnings here and directly from Nabble, many Nabble users fail to understand that you cannot send to the lists without subscribing your address to either the regular, or 'acl' versions of the lists (see below).
Web Forums, RSS, Disabled and Digest Delivery
The lists are also available as forums on Nabble.com. These allow for a variety of forum-style viewing options, RSS feeds, and daily digest delivery of the lists.
Users List
RSS Feeds: New MessagesNew Threads
Developers List
RSS Feeds: New MessagesNew Threads
**** N.B. You will need to subscribe to sc-users-acl / sc-users or sc-dev-acl / sc-dev in order to post to the lists from the corresponding forums (see below). ****
ACL (Access Control List) Subscription (Disabled Delivery)
It is possible to post messages to the lists from unsubscribed addresses, providing they have been added to the appropriate 'access control list', either sc-users-acl or sc-dev-acl.
To add an address to one of these access control lists send an email to majordomo@lists.bham.ac.uk containing the text:
subscribe sc-users-acl or subscribe sc-dev-acl
To remove an address:
unsubscribe sc-users-acl or unsubscribe sc-dev-acl
You may also use the following links which will open a correctly formatted message in your default email client:
Add an address to sc-users-acl
Remove an address from sc-users-acl
Add an address to sc-dev-acl
Remove an address from sc-dev-acl
Digest Delivery
The Nabble Forums support daily digest delivery of the lists. To use this, register with Nabble, and then on the individual forum page look under 'Options' and select 'Subscribe by Email'. In combination with an ACL subscription (see above), you can receive by digest and send from your address or the Nabble forums.
Other Forums / List Aggregators
Gmane (various options including RSS):
sc-users
sc-dev
Elists:
sc-users
sc-users rss
History and Archives
The original SC list was hosted by James McCartney and is archived here.
When SC became open source lists were setup at create.ucsb.edu. These lists were migrated, along with their archives, to bham.ac.uk in June 2008. Archives are available here:
sc-users
sc-dev
Bad address policy
The two lists are relatively high traffic, and as such just a few bad addresses (user over quota, address unavailable, etc.) can flood the list owner with failed send and bounce messages, which can easily make proper list maintenance next to impossible.
Because of this, bad addresses will quickly be unsubscribed, generally without warning. (A warning would probably be impossible anyway.) Upon correcting any problems users are free to re-subscribe. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.
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