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CPCUG Lists Available to Members and Nonmembers

• Subscribing to and Signing Off From Lists Hosted at listserv.cpcug.org via E-Mail
• Changing Your Subscription E-Mail Address
• Using the Web Interface at listserv.cpcug.org
• CPCUG Lists Hosted on Other Web Sites
• Acknowledgments

The Capital PC User Group provides e-mail lists for distributing and sharing information. An e-mail list uses subscribers' names and e-mail addresses to simultaneously send messages or announcements to a group of people sharing a common interest. Some CPCUG lists are for information distribution only. These are known as announcement lists, and have names ending with the suffix "-A." Postings can be made only by the listowner or a listowner-designated editor. Other lists, known as discussion lists, are open for subscriber posting. They have names ending with the suffix "-D." List archives are available for all CPCUG lists.

If you have access to e-mail, you can get started exploring CPCUG mailing lists right away! LISTSERV®, the registered trade name for the most popular and sophisticated e-mail list management software on the market, makes it easy for even the newest computer user to join these lists. You can join and leave lists at any time, or even sign off temporarily when you will be away from your computer for an extended period, such as during a vacation.

You can subscribe to any of the following CPCUG e-mail lists today:
[Suffix "-A" = announcement list. Suffix "-D" = discussion list.]

ACCESSSIG-A (CPCUG Access SIG Announcements)
ACCESSSIG-D (CPCUG Access SIG Discussion)
BEGINSIG-D (CPCUG Beginners Discussion)
CONENT-D (CPCUG Entrepreneurs and Consultants SIG Discussion)
CPCUGCAL-A (CPCUG Events Announcements)
CPCUGGEN-D (CPCUG General Discussion)
DCPUG-D (CPCUG PalmOS SIG Discussion)
DELPHI-PSIG-A (CPCUG Programmers SIG Announcements)
DELPHI-PSIG-D (CPCUG Programmers SIG Discussion)
JAVA-D (CPCUG JAVA Discussion)
JOOMLADC-D (CPCUG Joomla! Users Discussion)  
MM-D (CPCUG Multimedia Discussion)
MONITOR-D (CPCUG Monitor Discussion)
OFFICESIG-A (CPCUG MS Office SIG Announcements)
OFFICESIG-D (CPCUG MS Office SIG Discussion)
POCKETPC-D (CPCUG Pocket PC Discussion)
PROJMAN-D (CPCUG Project Management Discussion)
SENSIG-D (CPCUG Seniors (MD) SIG Discussion)
TRAIN-A (CPCUG Training Program Announcements)
TRAIN-D (CPCUG Training Program Discussion)
VB-D (CPCUG Visual Basic Discussion)
VIRGINIASIG-A (CPCUG Virginia SIG Announcements)
WEBDEV-D (CPCUG Web Developer Discussion)
WP-D (CPCUG WordPerfect Discussion)

There are other CPCUG lists open only to members participating as volunteers in the various activities that run CPCUG. Subscription is by permission of the appropriate member of the CPCUG Board of Directors.

Subscribing to and Signing Off From Lists Hosted at listserv.cpcug.org via E-Mail

Subscribing

To subscribe via e-mail to the CPCUG LISTSERV® lists that are open to all, in your message body (from the e-mail account by which you wish to subscribe), send the command—

subscribe <listname> <yourfirstname> <yourlastname>

to

listserv@listserv.cpcug.org

replacing the angle brackets in the command line and their content with your selected CPCUG listname and your own first name and your own last name.

Be sure to respond to the confirmation request that will arrive in your e-mail box from listserv@listserv.cpcug.org, or you'll have to start the subscription process again from the beginning! (Confirmation requests are automated and usually arrive within minutes, or even seconds. If the LISTSERV® software, however, receives no response from you within 48 hours, the confirmation request expires, resulting in the expiration and failure of your subscription request.)

Signing Off

To signoff from a CPCUG list, in the body of an e-mail message (from the e-mail account by which you are subscribed), send the command--

signoff <listname>

to

listserv@listserv.cpcug.org

replacing "<listname>" with the name of the list from which you wish to sign off. Be sure to respond to any confirmation request messages, or your signoff request may expire and fail.

For additional information about LISTSERV® software, manuals are available for review and download at--

www.lsoft.com/resources/manuals.asp

Changing Your Subscription E-Mail Address

To change an e-mail address by which you are subscribed to a list, first subscribe again via e-mail using your new e-mail address, and then signoff via e-mail (if you still have your old e-mail address) or via the Web interface from the list subscription that uses your old address.

Using the Web Interface at listserv.cpcug.org

Updating and Maintaining Your List Subscriptions

Once you've subscribed to at least one list, you can  manage your CPCUG LISTSERV subscriptions via the Web.

Getting a Password. To use the Web interface, go to listserv.cpcug.org. Click the third link, "LISTSERV web list management interface." You'll probably see a login screen. If you haven't yet registered an e-mail address and password combination on this domain, do it now by clicking "Get Password." (A password that you registered on another L-Soft LISTSERV Web interface page will not work at listserv.cpcug.org, unless you register it again.) After selecting and submitting a password, check your e-mail account for password registration information. You must register your password, as explained in the e-mail, within 48 hours, or you'll need to start the process of obtaining a password again. Once you've registered your password, return to listserv.cpcug.org, and click on Log In.

After you've logged in, click on Subscriber's Corner in line 3 at the top of the screen, and you can modify (or even delete) your subscription(s) as desired.

Using List Archives

Go to listserv.cpcug.org. If you don't have a password (or have forgotten it), select and register a password.

After you've logged in, click on Email Lists (in the second line at the top of the screen). Type the exact list name (from the list available near the top of this screen) into the box near the bottom of the Email Lists screen (you may have to scroll down to view the box). Click Submit (at right).

Now you can view messages by month, or use Search Archives under Options.

Tip:
You can subscribe to or signoff from a list whose archives you are viewing by clicking on the "Join or Leave" Option, which precedes the Search Archives Option.

CPCUG Lists Hosted on Other Web Sites

dcrobotics
Discussion (and announcement) list of the CPCUG Robotics SIG
Subscribers exchange information about robotics and assisting youth in robotics competitions.

Listowner: Janet Lathan
Hosted on the AnthroTronix, Inc., Web site: atinc.com
To subscribe: https://mail.atinc.com/mailman/listinfo/dcrobotics

netsig-l
Internet News (formerly the list of the CPCUG Internet SIG)
Announcement-only list; subscriber posting not available
Listowner: Gabe Goldberg
Private list hosted on aol.com
Distribution: Very occasional
To subscribe: Send e-mail containing the following text line (in the body of your message):

subscribe netsig-l <yourfirstname> <yourlastname>

[Be sure to replace "yourfirstname" and "yourlastname" with your own first and last names. <G>]

Acknowledgments

L-Soft International, Inc., set up, hosts, maintains, and supports listserv.cpcug.org, the subdomain where CPCUG e-mail lists are served and archived, using L-Soft LISTSERV® software.

CPCUG gratefully acknowledges this generous donation by L-Soft.

Capital PC User Group, Inc.
Mail: 19209 Mt. Airey Road, Brookeville, MD 20833
Phone: (301) 560-6442; fax: (301) 760-3303; E-mail

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