Rocketry Planet offers a subscription-based newswire service to all users which operates as an opt-in email distribution list.  You do not have to be a registered member to subscribe.  By subscribing to the Rocketry Planet Newswire, you will receive email periodically containing important hobby news and the latest hobby rocketry product information, as well as a weekly encapsulation of the latest news from the Rocketry Planet Newsdesk.  Subscribing is simple — either click the "Subscribe" link at the top of this page, or the top of any news article, or send an email with the proper commands to our automated newswire list server system.   

Majordomo is the automated system which allows users to subscribe and unsubscribe to our newswire subscription email list. You can interact with the Majordomo software by sending it commands in the body of email messages addressed to This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it . Please do not put your commands on the subject line as Majordomo does not process commands in the subject line.

1. SUBSCRIBING TO THE NEWSWIRE LIST

Once you've determined that you wish to subscribe to the newswire subscription email list, you can send commands to Majordomo 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 mail (i.e. from the email address that's configured in your email software), send an email to This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it  with the words "subscribe" followed by the list's name in the message body:

subscribe planetnews

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 email 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 "planetnews" email at your personal account (for which we will use This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it  as an example), you'd put the line

subscribe planetnews This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

in the email message body.

You will 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 This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it . (This can be a bit of extra hassle, but it helps keep you from being swamped with unwanted email by someone who forged requests from your address.)

Upon subscribing, you will receive an introductory message, containing list policies and features. Save this message for future reference; it will also contain exact directions for unsubscribing. If you lose the intro mail and would like another copy of the policies, send this message to This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it :

intro planetnews

2. UNSUBSCRIBING FROM THE NEWSWIRE LIST

Your original intro message contains the exact command which should be used to remove your email address from the newswire email list. However, in most cases, you may simply send the command "unsubscribe" followed by the list name to This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it :

unsubscribe planetnews

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

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

unsubscribe planetnews This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

In either of these cases, you can tell This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it  to remove the address in question from all lists on this server by using "*" in place of the list name:

unsubscribe *
unsubscribe * This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

3. FINDING OUT ADDITIONAL LISTS ON THIS SYSTEM

To get a list of publicly available mailing lists on this site, put the following line in the body of your email message to This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it :

lists

Each line will contain the name of a mailing list and a brief description of the list.

To get more information about a particular list, use the "info" command, supplying the name of the list. For example, if the name of the list about which you wish information is "planetnews", you would put the line

info planetnews

in the body of the mail message.

4. GETTING MORE HELP

To contact a live human site manager, send email to This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it . To contact the owner of a specific list, send email to that list's approval address, which is formed by adding "-approval" to the user-name portion of the list's address. For instance, to contact the list owner for This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it , you would send mail to This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it .

To get a copy of this help message, send mail to This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it  with a line saying

help

in the message body.

5. COMMAND SUMMARY FOR ADVANCED USERS

In the description below items contained in []'s are optional. When providing the item, do not include the []'s around it.  Items in angle brackets, such as <address>, are meta-symbols that should be replaced by appropriate text without the angle brackets.

Majordomo understands the following commands:

subscribe <list> [<address>]
Subscribe yourself (or <address> if specified) to the named <list>.
 
unsubscribe <list> [<address>]
Unsubscribe yourself (or <address> if specified) from the named <list>. "unsubscribe *" will remove you (or <address>) from all lists.  This may not work if you have subscribed using multiple addresses.

info <list>
Retrieve the general introductory information for the named <list>.

intro <list>
Retrieve the introductory message sent to new users.  Non-subscribers may not be able to retrieve this.

lists
Show the lists served by this Majordomo server.

help
Retrieve this message.

end
Stop processing commands (useful if your mailer adds a signature).

Commands should be sent in the body of an email message to This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it . Multiple commands can be processed provided each occurs on a separate line. Commands in the "Subject:" line are NOT processed. If you have any questions or problems, please contact This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it .

You may put multiple Majordomo commands in the same mail message. Put each command on a line by itself.

NOTE: 

If you use a "signature block" at the end of your mail, Majordomo may mistakenly believe each line of your message is a command; you will then receive spurious error messages.  To keep this from happening, either put a line starting with a hyphen ("-") before your signature, or put a line with just the word

end

on it in the same place. This will stop the Majordomo software from processing your signature as bad commands.