Adding Subscribers to Your LISTSERV through Email
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LISTSERV (Electronic Mailing Lists)
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Created: 10/16/2012 Last Updated: 08/11/2020
If you are the owner of a listserv, you have the ability to add subscribers to a closed list, or one that requires permission to subscribe.
Adding subscribers to your list through email:
Adding subscribers one at a time
- Compose an email to listserv@lists.sunysb.edu
- Leave the subject line blank
- In the body of the email, put "ADD YourList-L Firstname.Lastname@stonybrook.edu Firstname Lastname" (i.e. ADD MyList-L Fred.Flintstone@stonybrook.edu Fred Flintstone and remember to substitute "MyList-L" with your list)
- Send your email
Example:
To: listserv@lists.sunysb.edu
Subject: blank
Body: ADD CTR_ITALIAN_STUDIES john.smith@stonybrook.edu John Smith
Adding multiple subscribers at once
- Compose an email to listserv@lists.sunysb.edu
- Leave the Subject line blank
- In the Body of the email, put "ADD YourList-L Firstname.Lastname@stonybrook.edu Firstname Lastname" (i.e. ADD MyList-L Fred.Flintstone@stonybrook.edu Fred Flintstone and remember to substitute "MyList-L" with your list) on a separate line for each person you want to subscribe to your list
- Send your email
To: listserv@lists.sunysb.edu
Subject: blank
Body:
ADD CTR_ITALIAN_STUDIES john.smith@stonybrook.edu John Smith
ADD CTR_ITALIAN_STUDIES jane.smith@stonybrook.edu Jane Smith
ADD CTR_ITALIAN_STUDIES joshua.smith@stonybrook.edu Joshua Smith
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