Here is what the Create Member page looks like. The annotation numbers point to the notes below.
(1) Email
(required) The Internet email address of the member. For example: john@acme.com.
(2) Full Name
The person's full name. For example: John Smith.
(3) Password
Defines the login password for this member. This is the password the user will have to enter at the Enter Mailing List page in order to identify themselves as this
member. While this field is optional, it is recommended that a password be used if this person is a List administrator.
If this person became a member by using email (with the subscribe command), their password is blank.
(4) Kind
This choice defines how the user wants to receive messages from the mailing list. Refer to the Member Type field in the Join Mailing List
page for more information.
(5) Type
Defines whether this person is a normal member, meaning that they can participate in the mailing list, or if their status is otherwise. The different types are:
* normal - a normal member.
* confirm - the person has requested to join this mailing list, has received an email message asking them to confirm their membership, but has not accepted the confirmation message. This person's membership is waiting for be confirmed. Once the confirmation message is received, the person's type will change to normal.
* private - the person has requested to join this mailing list, but because this mailing list is set to private, their request to join is waiting for an administrator to approve it by changing their membership to normal. A private mailing list is one where requests to join the mailing list must be approved by a list administrator. When a mailing list is set to private, mailing list administrators who have Admin Mail set to Yes (see below) receive a short email notification message for each request to join the private mailing list.
* expired - the person had their membership set to expire on a certain date (see below) and that date has past, so this person's membership has expired and is no longer active.
* held - the person's email address was invalid, or bounced mailing list messages for several days, so their membership was held, so that they mail is no longer sent to their address.
(6) Expire
If set, this member's Type will change to expired after the specified number of days since they have joined the mailing list. For example, to expire this member 6
months after they joined, you would enter an Expire setting of 180 days.
(7) Acknowledge
When a user contributes a message to the mailing list, they have the option of being notified that the message was in fact delivered and sent out. If a user is
sending out an important announcement, they might want to be notified that it really went out. The member can set this themselves from the Edit Members Settings page, or the Join Mailing List
page.
(8) Approval
If this mailing list is set to moderate messages in some way, the Approval setting gives this member the right to contribute messages to the mailing list without
being moderated. In effect, it grants this member a "general approval" to contribute without approval any message they may write.
(9) # of Approvals
If the mailing list is set to use Number Moderating, this setting determines how many more messages this member needs to have approved before this member can
contribute messages without needing approval.
(10) List Admin?
Determines whether this member is a list administrator. If set to Yes, this will be able to access the List Administrator functions of the Lyris
Web Interface.
(11) Admin Mail
Determines whether this person receives email for list administrators of list mailing list. Mail sent to owner-listname (example: owner-jazztalk) is distributed
to each of the members who have their Admin Mail set to Yes. Also, if the mailing list is set to private, the Admin Mail setting determines whether this member receives email notifications
of requests to join the private mailing list.
(12) Moderate
Determines whether this member receives email notifications of moderated messages to the mailing list which need to be approved or rejected. If the mailing list
is not moderating messages, this setting has no effect.
(13) Error mail
Determines whether this member receives notifications of bounced email (and error mail) caused by members of the mailing list. Lyris processes these electronic
mail errors automatically, and in most cases a list administrator does not need to (or want to) know about these bounced messages. However, in some situations, a list administrator may want to
personally keep track of error mail, to see what members are causing problems.