Adding Members

List members are individuals who will receive messages posted to the listserv. They are added in the Membership Management category located at the top of the listserv.

Follow the instructions below to add members to your list:

  1. From the Configuration Categories list at the top of the page, click on the Membership Management... link.

    Screen Shot of Member Management Link

  2. A sub-list of Membership Management... categories will open. Membership List will be the default.
  3. Click the Mass Subscription link under Membership Management.
  4. The Mass Subscriptions subsection will open.

    Screen Shot of Mass Subscription Link

With the Mass Subscriptions section open, there are two ways to add member information:

Enter Each Address
  1. Scroll down to the Member Address text box.
  2. Enter the addresses into the text box with one address per line. They may be typed in or copied from a file.

    Screen Shot of Member Address text box

  3. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the Submit Your Changes button.
Specify a File to Upload
  1. Scroll down to the ...or specify a file to upload: text box.
  2. Click the Browse... button.

    Screen Shot of Browse button

  3. The File to Upload window will open.
  4. Browse to the address file to upload. The file must be in .txt format with one email address per line and no blank lines.
  5. Click the Open button to load the file.

    Screen Shot of File Upload window

  6. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the Submit Your Changes button.
  7. The listserv will tell you which addresses have been successfully subscribed and unsuccessfully subscribed. You will need to fix any addresses and add them manually. Alternately you can delete all the addresses from the list, fix the incorrect ones in the file, and reload them.

    Screen Shot of Subscribed Email Addresses

Note: If you save your email addresses in a spreadsheet or text file, you can easily use that file remove an entire list of members at a later time. See the Deleting Members for more information about how to delete members using a spreadsheet or text file.