Discussion List Member Types

This determines how you will interact with the list. The member types are defined as follows:

Mail: Receive messages to your email address as they are contributed to the list. This is the default setting, and the typically the preferred member type.

Alternatively, you may wish to be of member type:

Digest: Receive all of the daily messages in one e-mail.

MIME Digest: Receive all of the daily messages in one e-mail in MIME format. With MIME, each message is received as an attachment to the email.

Index: Receive a daily index of the subject lines of the messages of the day. You can then request specific messages or view them with the web interface.

Nomail: Don’t receive list contributions to your e-mail address. You can view messages with the web interface.

Changing your member type

To change your member type, send an email to

lyris@yourserver

With the message

set listname option

For example:

lyris@clio.lyris.net

With the message

set jazztalk digest

Retrieving your member type

If you don’t know what your member type is, you can find out by sending an email to

lyris@yourserver

With the message

query listname

For example:

lyris@clio.lyris.net

With the message

query jazztalk

If you send this query message, you will be sent back an email with all of your member settings, including member type.