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[Yasmin_announcements] NEW YASMIN – INSTRUCTIONS

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Dear Yasmin subscribers,

We would like to inform you that on Monday February 2nd the new version of

the Yasmin mailing list will be launched. This changeover is due to

technical problems that the current version of the list has been facing for

some months now, resulting in a large number of you not receiving any

messages. All existing Yasmin subscribers will be automatically subscribed

to the new Mailman version. The new version will consist of two separate

lists, "Yasmin_announcements" and "Yasmin_discussions". You will be

automatically subscribed to both.

The existing version will remain accessible for archival purposes only.

I. LIST STRUCTURE

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As mentioned above, Yasmin now consists of two lists, "Yasmin_Announcements"

and "Yasmin_Discussions", and you have been automatically subscribed to

both. You can access these lists through the links found at

http://www.media.uoa.gr/yasmin or http://estia.media.uoa.gr/mailman/listinfo

.

II. LOGIN PROCEDURE AND ACCESS DETAILS

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a) Contribution of content

Every time something gets posted on these lists (hereby referred to as

"Yasmin" for the sake of brevity), you will receive an e-mail containing the

message. You can contribute to the ongoing discussion(s) by replying to this

e-mail. As you will note, the reply e-mail will be automatically addressed

to the list (i.e. the recipient will be "<LIST_NAME>@estia.media.uoa.gr").

Since you will be using your e-mail to contribute to Yasmin, you will not

need a separate "Yasmin password".

b) Archives

Yasmin's archives are publicly accessible. This means that you will not need

to enter a password to access them. In order to view the archives, you need

to follow the link to the list whose archives you need to access on the main

Yasmin page (http://www.media.uoa.gr/yasmin). Alternatively, you can go to

http://estia.media.uoa.gr/mailman/listinfo directly and click on the name of

the list whose archives you would like to access. This will take you to the

selected list's info page. The first link on this page is found a few

paragraphs down and reads "To see the collection of prior postings to the

list, visit the <LIST_NAME> Archives". This link will take you to the

archives.

Archived posts are indexed according to the date. You can view a date's

posts by thread (i.e. a "chain" of messages with a hierarchical structure

displaying a post and the replies to it), by subject (alphabetically,

according to the "subject" line of the e-mail), by author, and by date. You

have also the option of downloading a text file with an entire day's traffic

("Downloadable version").

III. MEMBERSHIP OPTIONS (INCLUDING PASSWORD AND DIGEST OPTIONS)

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To access your membership options, you need to visit

http://estia.media.uoa.gr/mailman/listinfo and click on the name of the list

whose options you would like to view / change. This takes you to the

selected list's info page (just like when accessing the archives, which is

described above). If you scroll further down, you will find some fields

intended for new subscriptions. Since you are already subscribed, these

fields need not concern you.

If you scroll to the bottom of the page, you will find a section entitled

"<LIST_NAME> Subscribers". Here, you have the option to enter the admin

password (if you have it) to access the subscribers list. [NOTE: The

sunscribers list is available to administrators only in order to avoid spam

being delivered to your e-mail addresses]

Next, you have the option of unsubscribing from Yasmin or editing your

membership options. To do either of these things, you need to enter your

e-mail address. Once you do so, you will be redirected to the membership

options screen. From this screen, you may change your e-mail address used by

Yasmin, unsubscribe (we hope you won't feel inclined to do so!), have your

password reminded to you if you have forgotten it, or change it altogether.

Further down the page (you may have to scroll down a bit) there are several

subscription options. Most of these are self-explanatory and are accompanied

by a short text outlining their function. However, we urge you not to change

any options you don't completely understand.

The options you will likely use more often are the first two, namely "mail

delivery" and "set digest mode". The former allows you to disable traffic

directed from the list to your e-mail account. If you disable this option

and then forget about it, you won't receive any further messages from the

list, so please ensure that you will remember to turn this option back on

when you are ready to receive e-mail from the list again.

The latter option ("Set digest mode") specifies whether you will receive a

daily digest containing every day's proceedings. This option was very

popular on the old Yasmin list. If you do require a digest to be sent to you

daily, you will have to turn this option on. New subscribers are asked

whether they would like to turn digest on; however, you were automatically

subscribed and, consequently, will have to enable this option manually (you

only need to do it once).

Do not forget to click the "submit" button at the very bottom of the page to

confirm any changes you made.

ATTENTION: Your initial password will be contained in the welcome message.

You can change it from the options page, as described above.

IV. OLD YASMIN ARCHIVES

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As of now, the old version of Yasmin exists for archival purposes only. This

means that you will be unable to post new messages or subscribe to the old

Yasmin. You may access the old Yasmin archives through an appropriately

named link found at http://www.media.uoa.gr/yasmin.

[NOTE: the archives are not currently accessible, but they will be soon]

V. NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS

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One can subscribe to the lists through the info page. On that page, there is

a section titled* *"Subscribing to Yasmin_announcements". There, prospective

members can enter their e-mail address and (optionally) a password. If no

password is entered, one will be generated automatically and sent to

prospective subscribers via e-mail.

VI. CONTACT DETAILS

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For suggestions, clarifications, comments, etc. please contact us at

tech.yasmin at gmail.com.

Kind regards,

The Yasmin administration team