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How to Administer your Groong Email Subscription

To receive Groong in email, you must subscribe to the mailing list. You should know the available options, in order to customize your reception to your needs optimally.

There are two modes of email reception for Groong:

  1. REGULAR reception: You'll receive Groong articles in your email as they are sent in, one by one. During the course of a regular day there may be quite a number of postings. An average day these days sees about 75-80 articles posted throughout the day.

  2. DIGEST reception: You'll receive a single email from Groong around midnight each day. This email will contain a MIME-encoded listing of all of that day's postings to Groong. The MIME-encoding gives the reader a menu-like listing of all the topics of the articles in a browsable format, from which the reader can select for reading whichever ones are desired.

How do I ADD myself to the list?

  1. Through the web.
What this does is to send listproc@usc.edu an email with the following instruction:
    add groong YOUR-EMAIL-ADDRESS YOUR-FULL-NAME

How do I change my reception mode to DIGEST?

  1. Send Email to: LISTPROC@USC.EDU
  2. In the body of the Email, your instruction should be:
        set groong mail DIGEST
    
    Note that you must send your instruction from the account which is subscribed to Groong, otherwise this will not work properly.

How do I change my reception mode to REGULAR reception?

  1. Send Email to: LISTPROC@USC.EDU
  2. In the body of the Email, your instruction should be:
        set groong mail ACK
    
    Note that you must send your instruction from the account which is subscribed to Groong, otherwise this will not work properly.

How do I SUSPEND my Groong reception temporarily?

This is a very handy instruction. In case you go on vacation and must suspend your reception for a while, this is the command you wish to issue.
  1. Send Email to: LISTPROC@USC.EDU
  2. In the body of the Email, your instruction should be:
        set groong mail POSTPONE
    
    Note that you must send your instruction from the account which is subscribed to Groong, otherwise this will not work properly.

How do I RESTART reception after a suspension?

This is the same as setting your reception to either REGULAR or DIGEST mode.

How do I PERMANENTLY REMOVE myself from the list?

Ohhh! You want to really get off the list... Ok, I see.
  1. Send Email to: LISTPROC@USC.EDU
  2. In the body of the Email, your instruction should be:
        unsubscribe groong
    
    Note that you must send your instruction from the account which is subscribed to Groong, otherwise this will not work properly.

How do I CHANGE my subscribed Email address on the list?

This is the same as:
  1. PERMANENTLY REMOVING the OLD Email address,
  2. ADDING the NEW Email address.
Note that you must send your "remove" instruction from the account which you're cancelling, otherwise this will not work properly. If you have problems getting stuff to work, send email to the Groong Administrator: Groong-Request@usc.edu
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