Our mailing list is a good way to keep up-to-date on security issues at FIU. Please use the following material and instructions to get involved.

Subscribing to the List
Once you've determined that you wish to subscribe to one or more lists on this system, you can send e-mail commands to Majordomo Majordomo@rottweiler.fiu.edu to have it add you to the list, so you can begin receiving mailings.

To receive list mail at the address from which you're sending your e-mail, in the first line of the message body, simply say "subscribe" followed by the list's name:

subscribe itso-list

If for some reason you wish to have the mailings go to a different address (a friend's address, a specific other system on which you have an account, or an address which is more correct than the one that automatically appears in the "From:" header on the e-mail you send), you would add that address to the command. For instance, if you're sending a request from your work account, but wish to receive "itso-list" mail at your personal account (for which we will use "jqpublic@my-isp.com" as an example), you'd put the line:

subscribe itso-list jqpublic@my-isp.com

in the e-mail message body.

Based on configuration decisions made by the list owners, you may be added to the mailing list automatically. You may also receive notification that an authorization key is required for subscription. Another message will be sent to the address to be subscribed (which may or may not be the same as yours) containing the key, and directing the user to send a command found in that message back to Majordomo@rottweiler.fiu.edu. (This can be a bit of extra hassle, but it helps keep you from being swamped in extra e-mail by someone who forged requests from your address.) You may also get a message that your subscription is being forwarded to the list owner for approval; some lists have waiting lists, or policies about who may subscribe. If your request is forwarded for approval, the list owner should contact you soon after your request.

Upon subscribing, you should receive an introductory e-mail message, containing list policies and features. Save this message for future reference; it will also contain exact directions for unsubscribing. If you lose the introductory e-mail and would like another copy of the policies, send this message to Majordomo@rottweiler.fiu.edu:

intro itso-list

Unsubscribing from the List
Your original intro message contains the exact command which should be used to remove your address from the list. However, in most cases, you may simply send the command "unsubscribe" followed by the list name:

unsubscribe itso-list

(This command may fail if your provider has changed the way your address is shown in your mail.)

To remove an address other than the one from which you're sending the request, give that address in the command:

unsubscribe itso-list jqpublic@my-isp.com

In either of these cases, you can tell Majordomo@rottweiler.fiu.edu to remove the address in question from all lists on this server by using "*" in place of the list name:

unsubscribe * unsubscribe * jqpublic@my-isp.com