NM Bike Racers E-Mail List

Last modified: Thu Nov 13 15:38:29 Mountain Standard Time 2008

The bike-racers mailing list should be used for information exchange among members of ACA, USCF, NORBA, and NCCA. As of January 2005 there are about 500 racers from throughout New Mexico (and some outside of New Mexico) subscribed to the list. Please note that postings relating something local to, say, Albuquerque are also seen by many people in other cities around the state. Please be courteous with your postings.

The list works by forwarding all email sent to it to all the subscribers to the list. To send a message, address it to:
bike-racers@swcp.com.

It will then be automatically forwarded to everyone. This is a "closed" list, meaning that only subscribers to the list can send mail through it. This is to help keep the spam out of the list. It also means that only subscribers can find out who the other subscribers are.

NOTE: Please do not send large files or files with attachments through the list. And please use plain text formatting.

Confirmation Letter

After you subscribe to the bike racers mail list you will receive a confirmation letter that's something like the following:

>>>> info bike-racers
[Last updated on: Fri Jul 25 14:45:57 1997]

Welcome to the bike-racers list!

The bike-racers mailing list should be used for information exchange among members of the ACA, USCF, NORBA, and NCCA.  If demand exists, we can set up more lists that are regionally oriented like bike-racers-abq, or bike-racers-lascruces. Each list, however, costs $50 to set up and $5 per month to maintain. The NMBRA surcharge you pay in your race entries has paid to set this list up.

Commands

All administrative actions for the bike-racers list (such as routine subscribe/unsubscribe requests) are handled automatically by way of a special e-mail address on the list machine, namely:

majordomo@swcp.com

You ask Majordomo to perform various tasks on your behalf by sending e-mail to the address above containing one or more appropriate commands as listed below. Note that the commands must appear in the body of your message since the Subject line is ignored, and that the last command in any request should be the END command (this prevents Majordomo from attempting to interpret any signature lines you might have at the end of your message).

Possible Majordomo commands are:

SUBSCRIBE bike-racers
Subscribe yourself to the list.

UNSUBSCRIBE bike-racers
Unsubscribe yourself from the  list.

LISTS
Show the lists served by this Majordomo server.

WHICH
Find out which lists you are on.

WHO listname
Find out who is on the `listname' list.

INFO listname
Retrieve the general introductory information for `listname'.

INDEX listname
Return an index of files you can "get" for `listname'.

HELP
Retrieve this message.

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

NOTE: Commands can be typed in either upper or lower case.

EXAMPLE

To find out who else is on the list, send a message to majordomo@swcp.com with the following lines in the body of the message (leave the subject line blank):

WHO bike-racers
END

Majordomo will process your request and send you requested information if everything goes OK.

Since the system is fully automated, you can subscribe and unsubscribe as many times as you like, day or night, without worrying about wasting the time of a human operator.