Question: I'm the owner/moderator of a Mailman list. How do I add and remove subscribers from my list?

Answer:

You can add and remove subscribers by going to your list's administration pages at:

http://mailman.u.washington.edu/mailman/admin/listname

After you have logged in with your UW NetID, go to "Membership Management." This should bring you to a page with a list of the subscribers. Every subscriber will have a checkbox at the left, entitled "unsub." If you wish to unsubscribe a few people, you can check the boxes and click on "Submit Your Changes."

If you have a list of email addresses that you wish to add or remove, you can go to either "Mass Subscription" or "Mass Removal," which are options under "Membership Management."

For "Mass Subscription" enter the email addresses in the text box provided, one per line. If you would like to include a name associated with each address, you can do so in the following format:

name <email-address>

Don't forget to include the brackets around the email address. It is also very important that you include the full email address (in other words, don't shorten University of Washington addresses to "@u").

Alternatively, you can provide a plain text file containing the email addresses (and names if preferred). (Note: You MUST use a plain text file; it cannot be a Word or Excel file.) Type the location of the file in the "...or specify a file to upload" box or use the "Browse..." button to locate it on your computer.

For the "Mass Removal" page, just enter the email addresses you want to remove, one per line, or provide a text file. The file should contains email addresses only, one per line, with no names.

Note: You can find step-by-step instructions for adding and deleting subscribers at

http://www.washington.edu/computing/mailman/owners/maintenance.html