TCSUL 

Distribution List Instructions

TROUBLESHOOTING

To subscribe

Email a request to Randy May, TLA's distribution list administrator. Only directors of member libraries can subscribe to this list.

To post

Once subscribed, email messages for posting to tcsul@txla.org.  

To use the web interface

The TLA-TCSUL listserv offers a web interface to unsubscribe yourself, set your personal email delivery preferences and read archived messages posted to the list.  To view this web interface, please visit http://web2.txla.org/read/?forum=tcsul .   When you are asked to login, enter your email address subscribed to the listserv.

Your delivery options available via the web interface are:

Normal Mail

When the TCSUL list was created, everyone was set to this type of standard mail delivery. You will receive copies of messages posted to the list immediately.

Digest Mail

Each night, around 12:00 am, you will receive a single email message containing all the messages contributed to the forum that day. At the top of the message will be a numbered list of the subjects in that digest, followed by the complete messages themselves. This setting sometimes delivers strange characters as it does not keep the formatting of the original message.

MIME Digest Mail

The same as a digest, but in MIME format so that the individual messages' formatting is preserved.  Some email clients such as Outlook will show the digest as a series of attachments.

Index Mail

Each night, around 1 in the morning, you will receive a single email message containing all the subject lines of all the messages contributed to the forum that day. If any of the messages interest you, the bottom of the index gives the email command that will retrieve the bodies of the messages.

Technical difficulties

If you run into technical difficulties (e.g., your messages bounce back or you are not receiving any mail), there are typically two main reasons for these problems and need to be resolved at the subscriber's address.

• ACCOUNT ON HOLD MESSAGE: This email is to notify you that this email address has been placed in a "hold" status. Your subscription has been held because at least 2 recent messages have been either bounced by your email system, or could not be delivered at all. Your membership can be restored to normal by sending a blank email to unhold@txla.org.
  
  
• UNABLE TO RECEIVE MESSAGES: Note that if your email address continues to reject mail your subscription will once again be held. Common causes for rejected mail are a firewall that does not allow mail delivery to groups. To correct this problem, please contact your IT department and ask them to allow all postings from the domain @txla.org.
  
  
• YOU ARE UNABLE TO POST: First, please verify that you are subscribed to the list. Another possible problem may be due to the fact that the email address is incorrect. Your subscribed email must be exactly as it comes across on an email message from you. For example, you may be able to send and receive mail from bob@acme.com, but the email actually comes across as bob@mail.acme.com. In order to post messages, your subscribed email address must include the "mail" extension in the email address.