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Subscribing conferences to mailing lists
You can use conferences as access points to Internet mailing lists.
When you subscribe a conference to a mailing list, messages sent to the mailing list will appear in the conference.
Each mailing list has its own instructions for subscribing. In some cases, you send a subscription request and the mailing list returns a reply saying the conference is subscribed. In other cases, you must respond to the mailing list's reply before the conference is subscribed.
To subscribe a conference to a mailing list:
1 Choose Collaborate > Permissions with the conference open or selected.
2 Click Message from conference on the Conference Permissions form.
3 Send the subscription request as instructed by the mailing list.
The mailing list will send a reply to the conference.
If you need to respond to this reply
4 Copy the text of the mailing list's reply.
5 Click Message from conference on the Conference Permissions form.
6 Paste the copied text into your response.
If necessary, copy and paste the subject line as well.
7 Send the response.
Writing to mailing lists
Some mailing lists let anyone write to them. In this case, you and others using a conference can just send messages to the mailing lists, or respond to mailing list messages in a conference.
Other mailing lists only let registered users write to them. These mailing lists consider the actual conference to be the registered user, not you or others using the conference. This means that you cannot send messages directly to a mailing list, or respond to mailing list messages directly from the conference. To write to these mailing lists, you must use the Message from conference button on the conference Permissions form.
Sending commands to mailing lists
As well as sending messages to mailing lists, you can send commands such as help commands or requests for information about who is subscribed. These commands must be sent using the Message from conference button on the Conference Permissions form.
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