Who can subscribe to CTY-L?
The CTY/OTID mailing list is intended for the use of the CTY community. The CTY community, broadly construed, includes current, former, and future students and staff, as well as parents and friends. Anyone can subscribe.

Who runs CTY-L?
CTY-L is based at Cornell University and administered, on a volunteer basis, by me. CTY and the Johns Hopkins University have no administrative involvement with CTY-L and assume no responsibility for its content.

How do I subscribe?
Send mail to lyris@cornell.edu with the following text (and nothing else) in the body of the message:
join CTY-L "Name"
where Name is your name, or the name by which you want to be known. Include the quotation marks.

How do I cancel my subscription?
Send mail to lyris@cornell.edu with the following text (and nothing else) in the body of the message:
leave CTY-L
Be sure to send this mail from the same address from which you subscribed.

How do I send mail to all the subscribers?
Send it to CTY-L@cornell.edu. If you're asking a question or starting a discussion, first search the archive to make sure that your question hasn't already been answered or that your point hasn't already been made.

My mail to CTY-L was returned to me with a notice saying that I'm not subscribed to CTY-L, even though I am a subscriber!
This is because you sent the mail from an address different than the one in CTY-L's subscribers file. This sometimes happens to people who have logins on several machines within a domain, and whose mailers don't automatically remove the machine name from the "From" address. For instance, if you subscribe as ctyer@college.edu and then try to send mail from ctyer@mycomputer.college.edu, your mail will be returned. The easiest way to prevent this is to send your mail from the address at which you're subscribed. If you absolutely need to be able to send mail from an address that differs from the one at which you receive mail, send a message to owner-CTY-L@cornell.edu that notes all the addresses in question. Please try to avoid making such requests, though, because handling them takes up time, and I'm already too busy.

I like CTY-L, but it produces too many pieces of mail. How can I keep receiving CTY-L without my mailbox exploding?
Send mail to lyris@cornell.edu with the following text (and nothing else) in the body of the message:
set CTY-L digest
Be sure to send this mail from the same address from which you subscribed. You'll now receive CTY-L in the form of a single mailing each day (except if there's no traffic on CTY-L on a particular day, in which case you won't receive anything on that day). Do not set DIGEST mode if your site restricts the length of incoming messages; during periods of high traffic the lengths of digests may exceed the maximum allowed on your system. (juno.com, for instance, has an absurdly low limit on message length.)

I'm going to be away from my mail for more than a few days. How do I keep my mailbox from exploding while I'm gone?
To suspend temporarily delivery of CTY-L, send mail to lyris@cornell.edu with the following text (and nothing else) in the body of the message:
set CTY-L nomail
Be sure to send this mail from the same address from which you subscribed. Please be sure to do this if your site has disc quotas or other restrictions on the amount of mail in your in-box. Otherwise all your incoming CTY-L mail will be bounced back to me, and then my mailbox will explode. (aol.com is particularly nasty with quotas.)

I set nomail but now I'm back and I want to start receiving CTY-L again. What do I do?
Send set CTY-L mail or set CTY-L digest, depending on whether you receive CTY-L as separate messages or as a daily digest.

I missed some mail. How do I find out what's been sent to CTY-L during the past few days?
Click here.

I know my way around computing systems and want to set parameters of my CTY-L subscription that aren't mentioned in this document. How can I find out more?
For a more complete list of Lyris ListManager commands, see the Lyris ListManager user reference.


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