The Postmaster is breadbox (Brian Raiter, breadbox@muppetlabs.com).
The main official mailing list of Ackanomic is ackanomic@muppetlabs.com. There is also an ackanomic-digest list, which collects messages and distributes them in batches. Mail sent to either goes out to both lists. Active players must be subscribed to one of these two lists.
There are a number of other lists which are used for specific purposes. See the Postal Code for details. See also the Postmaster's list of other useful addresses.
Subscribe and unsubscribe commands should be sent to majordomo@muppetlabs.com. Don't send majordomo commands to the mailing list itself. Put the commands in the body of a message; the subject line is ignored. The format is:
subscribe list-namewhere list-name is any of the mailing lists described below. If your outgoing email has an address other than the one you want the mailing list to use (for example, if your email address is jrandom@foo.com but your email header gives your address as jrandom@too.specific.foo.com), you can instead use:
subscribe list-name me@domain.com
Replace "subscribe" with "unsubscribe" to take yourself off of a mailing list. You may put multiple commands in a message, but put them on separate lines. (See below for a summary of other majordomo commands.)
Here are all of the Ackanomic public mailing lists:
List Name Description ---------------- -------------------------------------------------- ackanomic Main mailing list for the game of Ackanomic acka-voting Official list for proposals and voting results acka-finance Mailing list for Ackanomic financial matters acka-games Mailing list for sub-games within Ackanomic acka-research Mailing list for discussion acka-chess Ackanomic's sub-game of Party Chess acka-senate Mailing list for Ackanomic's Senate acka-synod Mailing list for members of the Synod ackanomic-digest Digest version of ackanomic acka-finance-digest Digest version of acka-finance acka-games-digest Digest version of acka-games acka-research-digest Digest version of acka-research acka-voting-digest Digest version of acka-voting ackanomic-priv Alias for ackanomic with private replies acka-games-priv Alias for acka-games with private replies
If you subscribe to a digest version of a mailing list, messages will be collected and sent to you in batches.
The priv aliases are not separate mailings lists that can be subscribed to. Mail sent to them go to the actual list, but with the default reply set to yourself rather than the mailing list. (They are used to aid players in avoiding snowgod's Disease.)
Here are all of the Ackanomic private mailing lists:
List Name Description ---------------- -------------------------------------------------- acka-azpiazu Mailing list for members of the Church of Azpiazu acka-banna Mailing list for members of the Church of banna acka-ebs Mailing list for the Evil Ballot Stuffer Church acka-harf Mailing list for members of the HARF party acka-klingon Mailing list for the Klingon party acka-markovian Mailing list for the Church of the Markovian Dream acka-metamorph Mailing list for the MetaMorph party acka-noneyet Mailing list for the Munchkin Haven party acka-odo Mailing list for the Church of Odo on the Wormhole acka-spam Mailing list for members of the SPAM party acka-vulcan Mailing list for members of the Vulcan party
Ask the appropriate group if you want to subscribe to a private list; you can't just join these lists as above, though if you are on them you can unsubscribe as above. If you have a list password for a private list, you can subscribe and unsubscribe people with a command of the form:
approve password subscribe list-name player@email.address
Other commands you can use with majordomo:
help
Send back a help document describing how to use majordomo.
lists
Show all the lists served by majordomo at this site.
which player@email.address
Find out which lists player@email.address is on. Defaults to your
address, if no address is given.
Find out who is on the named list.
Retrieve the general introductory information for the named list.
Retrieve the introductory message sent to new users. Non-subscribers
may not be able to retrieve this.
Stop processing commands (useful if your mailer adds a signature).
There is also an
FTP archive of
the digests from the five main lists.
Finally, here is a brief list of suggested
postal etiquette.
who list-name
info list-name
intro list-name
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