CREATING DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION

This page allows you to provide descriptive information for a particular mailing list. Simply follow these steps:

  1. Provide information for the following fields:

    • Short Description
      A brief description of the mailing list. The maximum number of characters acceptable for this field is 512 (e.g Engineering Mailing List ).

    • Long Description
      The expanded description of the mailing list. It can be up to 1024 characters long and is used to attract potential subscribers to join the mailing list. A typical long description will be:

        This is an email discussion list which focuses web design, graphic and multimedia publishing on the web. Each member may contribute ideas, viewpoints, tips and tricks, or any other aspects on web design.

    • Welcome Message
      The Welcome message is sent to those members who were automatically added via automatic subscriptions.

    • Farewell Message
      The Farewell message is sent to those members who were removed from the mailing list via automatic unsubscriptions.

  2. Click the Save button to store the descriptions and messages you have composed.