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Listserv Commands

In order to use a listserver, the user sends commands on the body of the message to the listserver address, where it is located. For example, the international list DERM-L, of discussion on dermatology, is hosted on the server named YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU (at the Yale University, in the USA), and it uses the Listserv program. Each kind of listserver program has a slightly different set of commands. In the table below we give the main commands for Listserv, using the aforementioned example:

Any of these commands should be sent do the following address, in the example: LISTSERV @YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU. Thus, when subscribing to other lists, it is enough to know what are their addresses and send similar commands, substituting the list's names in the messages. The  "subject" field is usually ignored and the command lines (you can send more than one in a single message) are written in the message's body.

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