The settings for mailing lists are managed through the Mailman administrator web pages. To access these pages, you will need to know the name of your list (the portion before the @lists.uwrf.edu) and the list password. Links to admin pages for many lists can be found here. If your mailing list is not listed on that page, simply add the name of the list to the end of the URL in your address bar similar to the following:

https://lists.uwrf.edu/mailman/admin/yourlistname

1. visit your list administrator page
2. at the top, click the link for "Membership Management"
3. on the Membership Management page, click the link for "Mass Subscription"
4. on the Mass Subscription page
   1. select the appropriate option for "Send welcome messages to new subscribees?" (note: if sent, the welcome message will contain introductory text as well as links to allow the subscriber to manage their subscription options)
   2. you can either enter e-mail addresses in the box provided or upload a plain text file containing the addresses.
   3. click "Submit your Changes"

1. visit your list administrator page
2. click the link for "Membership Management."
   
3. on the bottom of the Membership Management page, there will be a table listing subscribers (if there are a lot of subscribers, the list may be broken into multiple pages with navigation links using the first character of the e-mail address). To unsubscribe addresses:
   1. check the box in the first column (labeled unsub) for each address on the page you wish to unsubscribe.
   2. click the "Submit your Changes" button at the bottom of the page.

At the top of your list administrator page, click the link for "Privacy Options." The first section of privacy options deals with subscriptions. In the section labeled "What steps are required for subscription?", use either the "Require Approval" option or the "Confirm and Approve" option. With those options, each time someone attempts to subscribe to your list, an e-mail will be sent to you with instructions on how to proceed.

One easy step that can be taken to cut down on spam is to not advertise the list. This is good for lists that have a known, limited list of people who should be subscribed to it. To set this option, at the top of your list administrator page, click the link for "Privacy Options." On the Privacy Options page, use the option "Advertise this list when people ask what lists are on this machine?" to hide or publicize the list.

Automatic discarding of emails carries a risk that some legitimate emails may get discarded. For this reason, the options which automatically discard emails should be set with great care. One method that can be used for mailing lists which should only receive messages from UWRF addresses is to discard all messages from addresses that aren't @uwrf.edu. To do this:

1. At the top of your list administrator page, click the link for "Privacy Options."
2. On the Privacy Options page, click the link for "Sender Filters."
3. In the section labeled "List of non-member addresses whose postings will be automatically discarded.", enter the following text exactly: ^(?!.*uwrf\.edu)
4. In the section labeled "Should messages from non-members, which are automatically discarded, be forwarded to the list moderator?", we recommend "Yes" be selected (this notifies you of discarded emails but doesn't require you to take action).

Send an e-mail to "yourlistname-request@uwrf.edu" with a subject of "who listpassword" where yourlistname is the name of your list and listpassword is the administrator password for the list.

The message "Too many recipients to the message" can be caused by a setting in the Admin page for the list under Privacy options. Follow the link to Recipient filters and find the setting that reads:
Default ceiling on acceptable number of recipients for a posting = 10

Try changing this to a larger number, for example 50. Setting it to zero will turn the check off altogether.