Who is on a mailing list/which list am I on?

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1 Also see: General mailing lists Student mailing lists Mailing list policy On this page: Which lists you are on Who is on a given list Short names for lists Security How to tell which lists you are on To determine which lists you are on, s an to majordomo@pharmacy.purdue.edu. (Note that you will receive better results if you s a plain-text .) In the body of the , include two lines that say: which You will soon receive a reply from MajorDomo, listing all of the lists that you are on (see example in Figure 1, below). Note that the lists will be displayed by their short name, for example mcmp_clr instead of clerical@mcmp.purdue.edu. (See Short names for lists, below) Note also that lists such as all@pharmacy.purdue.edu and staff@pharmacy.purdue.edu do not contain addresses, they are meta-lists (lists of lists). Thus, if you are in list ipph_clr, you will also be included in staff@ipph.purdue.edu, all@ipph.purdue.edu, staff@pharmacy.purdue.edu, and all@pharmacy.purdue.edu. ->>>> which The string 'rattray@purdue.edu' appears in the following entries in lists served by majordomo@pharmacy.purdue.edu: List ==== admin_ap backup local_users sysadmins techsupport Address ======= >>>> Figure 1 - Output from 'which' command Page 1 of 5

2 How to tell who is on a mailing list To determine who is on one of our mailing lists, s an to majordomo@pharmacy.purdue.edu. In the body of the , include two lines that say: who list-short-name for example: who admin_ap Note that you will need to refer to the lists by their short names, for example mcmp_clr instead of clerical@mcmp.purdue.edu. (See Short names for lists, below) You will soon receive a reply from MajorDomo, showing you everyone on the list you specified (see example in Figure 2, below). ->>>> who admin_ap Members of list 'admin_ap': "Chandler, Amy K." <chandler@purdue.edu> "Lewis, Deborah D." <ddlewis@purdue.edu> "Neary, Dana S." <nearyd@purdue.edu> "Dubes, Joseph E." <dubesj@purdue.edu> "George, T. Patrick" <georgetp@purdue.edu> "Keckler, Holly Witherspoon" <keckler@purdue.edu> "Holladay, Susan R. H." <holladay@purdue.edu> "Sheese, Danielle E." <dsheese@purdue.edu> "Mott, Janine C." <jmott@purdue.edu> "Hultgren, Kyle E." <khultgre@purdue.edu> "Schroeder, Bra <braschroeder@purdue.edu> "Coffman, Loretta" <loretta@purdue.edu> "Davis, Angela R." <davis174@purdue.edu> "Burnette, Jennifer L." <jburnett@purdue.edu> "Tarrh, William" <tarrh@purdue.edu> "Lenartz, Diane M." <lenartz@purdue.edu> "Linn, Brooke A." <balinn@purdue.edu> 18 subscribers >>>> Page 2 of 5

3 Figure 2 - Output from 'who' command Short names for lists The mailing list names as shown above (e.g. ap@ipph.purdue.edu) are easy for people to use. However, the mailing list manager, MajorDomo, uses short names for each list, instead of the long names. MajorDomo has to do this to differentiate between lists with the same name in different mailing domains (e.g. gradstudents@ipph.purdue.edu and gradstudents@mcmp.purdue.edu). The table below shows all of the true mailing lists in the College of PNHS general mailing lists. MajorDomo will refer to the example above, ap@ipph.purdue.edu, as ipph_ap. Table 1 - Short names for mailing lists Page 3 of 5

4 You will note that the table above does not contain short names that correspond to lists such as or the all-important That is because those lists are not true mailing lists (lists of addresses). They are meta-lists (lists of lists). If you s MajorDomo a request for everyone on ipph_staff or pnhs_all, you will get a reply listing which other lists are contained in the list you asked for, NOT a listing of the people that the list ultimately goes to. Here is how the meta-lists work: allfaculty@domain.purdue.edu goes to domain_faculty, domain_adjfac, domain_afffac, and domain_resfac. (e.g. allfaculty@ipph.purdue.edu goes to ipph_fac, ipph_adjfac, ipph_afffac, and ipph_resfac. staff@domain.purdue.edu goes to domain_ap, domain_clr, and domain_tech. For example, staff@ipph.purdue.edu goes to ipph_ap, ipph_clr, and ipph_tech. all@domain.purdue.edu goes to all of the domain_, lists EXCEPT domain_ugrd. For example, all@ipph.purdue.edu goes to all of the ipph_ lists in Table 1 above, except ipph_ugrd lists go to the appropriate ipph_, mcmp_, phpr_, and possibly admin_ lists. For example, ap@pharmacy.purdue.edu goes to ipph_ap, mcmp_ap, phpr_ap, and admin_ap. grad@pharmacy.purdue.edu goes to ipph_grd, mcmp_grd, and phpr_grd. Security for this information You might be concerned that someone outside the College can determine who is on our mailing lists and start sing us all spam. Rest assured that the MajorDomo won't answer any queries for people who are not on our mailing lists. They get a reply that says: - Page 4 of 5

5 >>>> who ipph_ap **** List 'ipph_ap' is a private list. **** Only members of the list can do a 'who'. **** You [ Evil Person <person@evil.com> ] aren't a member of list 'ipph_ap'. >>>> Figure 3 - Excluding outsiders Page 5 of 5