Albuquerque Soaring Association
E-mail List Server

Any e-mail sent to this address will be forwarded to all the club members that have subscribed to the list server. In order to receive e-mail, you must subscribe to the list.

What is it?

How do I subscribe?

How do I use the list?

This is an automated e-mail list that allows you to send one e-mail to the list and have it automatically sent to everyone on the list. The advantage to this is that you don't need to know anyone else's e-mail and therefore you don't need to keep an up-to-date list.

Similarly, when anyone else sends something to the list, you will receive it. It will be your responsibility to subscribe to the list and to unsubscribe and re-subscribe if your e-mail address changes.

You need to send a special message to a specific e-mail address. The automated system will send you back a request to confirm that you want to join the list. Follow the instructions that come with this message and send the confirming message as described.

Send the following message to:

Type the following in the body of the message and just leave the subject of the e-mail blank.

"subscribe list2006   your_email@address "
"end"

Leave off the quotes and replace your_email@address with your actual e-mail address.

Note: Once you send this message, you will be sent a confirming message that YOU MUST RESPOND TO.

This confirming message is used to ensure that you really wanted to be subscribed. It will be sent to the e-mail address you put in your subscribe e-mail. Read the instructions of this confirmation e-mail carefully. This seems to be what causes the most trouble for people.

Just send a message to this address:

Note: THIS IS NOT the same address that you use to subscribe to the list. Anything you send to this e-mail address will get sent to everyone else on the list.

Don't do this.

You may have the ability to set an auto-reply for your e-mails. This is a system that people use when they won't be reading their e-mail for awhile. However, any message you send to the list is also sent to you. Any auto-reply to the list will send you a copy of your auto-response, and it may go into a loop.

This loop may generate thousands of e-mails to everyone on the list. This problem is not confirmed for our list. It is being investigated and if we can determine it isn't a problem we will let people know. If you do need to setup an auto-reply, please unsubscribe from the list. It only takes a moment to unsubscribe and re-subscribe when you return.

The list server has some limiations. Currently the maximum size of any e-mail attachments is 250 kb. If this is a problem, we can increase this.

The list server is not perfect, if you didn't receive a copy of your message sent back to you by the server, chances are no one else got it either. Just send it again.Remeber, e-mail gets lost sometimes. Just as your desktop PC messes up once in awhile, so do e-mail servers.

Be careful if replying to a message received from the list server. For most people a REPLY seems to reply only to the person who sent the original message (this may be exactly what you want). For most REPLY ALL sends it to both the originator and back to the list so everyone sees it.

HOWEVER, we have had cases where REPLY doesn't seem to work. This appears to be a function of YOUR e-mail program and has nothing to do with the list server. If you use reply, just look at the actual address you are replying to and make sure that you are replying to the correct address.

1) The automated subscribe system at

only works with plain text e-mails.

Those of you using Outlook or Outlook Express to handle e-mail are probably sending e-mail in HTML format without even knowing it. This seems to be the default. When you compose your e-mail there is a selection or option to send it with plain text. Use this.

2) You have confused the majordomo with the list2006 address. You will only use the majordomo address to subscribe and to confirm your subscription. From then on, use

to send e-mails to the list for automatic distribution.

3) You are forgetting that all the ASA e-mail and web site stuff is a dot "ORG" not dot "COM".

4) You get a copy of anything you send to the list, why? You're supposed to get a copy. This is one way to know that what you sent to the list went out to the list.

5) You didn't send back the confirming e-mail.

If you run into trouble, please contact me (Clin Lashway)

or by phone at:

292-5002 (work)
271-1482 (home)