Subscription and Posting Options

To subscribe to BIRDBAND send a to: listserv@listserv.arizona.edu

As message (no subject line) put: subscribe BIRDBAND Your Name

After you subscribe, a listowner has to set you to be able to post messages to the list. This generally takes a few hours to a day depending on how often the listowners check their mail. You will get a message saying that your subscription options have been updated.

All subscription option requests should be addressed to:

listserv@listserv.arizona.edu

and have the command in the message field.

Your default subscription options are to receive messages as they are posted. You can change this to receiving a daily digest of messages by sending the message to the above address:

Set birdband digest (in the body of the mail – no subject line)

If you do not want to get birdband posting for a while (such as a vacation) but you don’t want to unsubscribe, you can change your subscription option to “nomail” with the command:

Set birdband nomail (in the body of the mail – no subject line)

(You can also see recent BirdBand postings on the web, see below under “Services” or on Jack Siler’s web site:

http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/BAND.html)

To start having messages sent to you again, send:

Set birdband mail (in the body of the mail – no subject line) or

· Set birdband digest (in the body of the mail – no subject line), as appropriate

To unsubscribe, the command is:

· Signoff birdband (in the body of the mail – no subject line)

Posting Messages

Address for posting to the forum after joining is: birdband@listserv.arizona.edu

When you post a message to birdband, you do not get a copy of it or an acknowledgment.

You can change these options by the commands (in the body of the mail – no subject line):

Set birdband repro (you get a copy of your message) or
Set birdband ack (you get an acknowledgment that your message has been posted)

Subscribe/Unsubscribe on the web:

You can join and leave the birdband list and change your subscription options at the web site below. It also contains searchable archive for BirdBand. http://listserv.arizona.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=birdband

Problems: Why can’t I post to BirdBand?

The most common posting problem is a change in the name of your mail server. If this changes at all from the form in which you subscribed, the birdband listserv will not recognize you as being subscribed and you can’t post. (Usually, you continue to receive messages without any problems because your mail server accepts messages to the old address form.) This happens most often with mail servers at companies and universities as they upgrade their systems and is not common with ISP’s. If you get a posting rejected, drop the listowners a line and it is usually easy to fix the problem.

For problems or questions :

Jean Bickal or Lyndon Kearsley

POSTING RULES:

Attachments

Attachments are not permitted in BirdBand postings. If you have a document or an image, you can make it available to those who request it or put it up on a web site and post the URL. If necessary, documents or images can be put on this web site.

The 4 Letter Codes

US and Canadian banders use a four letter code system developed by the Bird Banding Lab in submitting data. (Ex. AMGO = American Goldfinch) Many US and Canadian banders find these codes handy as a shorthand way of referring to birds. However, these codes are not used outside North America and mean nothing to BirdBand subscribers in other countries. We are lucky to have so many banders from all over the world subscribed to this list. Non-English speakers make the effort to post in English. The least we can do is communicate clearly. At a minimum, please use the full English name of the bird for your first reference to the species.

BIRDBAND has a special topic filtering system for the topic BONET. You may choose only to receive mail addressed to BONET or all mail other than that addressed to BONET. On subscribing TOPICS are set by default to ALL (all mail to the mailing list including BONET)

Instructions for setting your own TOPICS options to be found on the TOPICS page.

Updated 16/5/2005