CENTERSPAN Listserv is an electronic mailing list, established to serve as a forum for discussion among professionals on all matters related to transplantation and immunology.
CenterSpan Listserv is an electronic mailing list. You may have heard of "listservs." Actually, Listserv is the name of one particular program for running mailing lists (the distinction is rather like calling facial tissue "kleenex"). As it happens, CenterSpan Listserv operates using Listserv software. Users who are familiar with Listserv mailing lists can use all the regular Listserv commands on CenterSpan Listserv.
There are two email addresses that you may use in interacting with CenterSpan Listserv. Each one serves a distinct purpose and it is important to understand the differences.
That line should be the entire body of your message. Remove or cancel any signature block you might use. You can leave the subject field blank. The server will reply to you confirming that your subscription has been canceled.
Then just write your message in the body of the email and send it as you would any other email. Your posting will be automatically sent to all of the members of the CenterSpan Listserv list. That's all there is to it. If you don't change any of the default settings on your subscription, you will also receive a copy of the message as confirmation that the server received your posting and successfully sent it out.
We have established three topic areas for the CenterSpan Listserv. Topics allow recipients of email from the list to rapidly identify in the subject line the area covered by the posting. If everyone takes the few extra seconds to use a topic at the beginning of their subject lines, the list will be easier for all to manage. The topics are:
If you don't use a topic prefix when one is appropriate, your posting will
still be distributed to everyone, but the list co-moderators (Bob Merion
and Dan Salomon) may gently prod you to use them subsequently for the sake
of all subscribers.
Whenever you use the Kidney: topic prefix, your posting will also be automatically sent to Kim Solez's Nephrol list. Nephrol, in turn, crossposts transplant-related postings to CenterSpan Listserv.
As time goes on, the co-moderators may decide to add additional topic areas. Please send email regarding the creation of topic areas (or other issues relating to management of the list) as direct email to one of the co-moderators:
To respond to any message that you receive from CenterSpan Listserv, just reply as you would to any other e-mail. If your e-mail program gives you control over which header field becomes the addressee, use the "reply-to" field.
If you already subscribe to mailing lists, you know that the biggest headache of a mailing list is keeping track of the individual messages that accumulate over time. If the mailing list is very active, you may find yourself with many messages in your email reader, and it is easy to forget just which messages are most useful to you. We have a cure. CenterSpan maintains an online archive for this list.
Search the CENTERSPAN Listserv archives (members
only).
As soon as a message gets posted to the list, it is also entered at the web archive. At the archive, you can search for any term in the headers or bodies of the messages, or you can browse through all past messages, organized by date or subject. So, if you like, feel free to read and discard CenterSpan Listserv messages as they come in; you can always find old messages quickly and easily.
That line should be the entire body of your message. Remove or cancel any signature block you might use. You can leave the subject field blank. The server will reply to you confirming that your subscription has been changed to digest mode. You will start receiving digests at the next regularly scheduled posting of the digest.
That line should be the entire body of your message. Remove or cancel any signature block you might use. You can leave the subject field blank. The server will reply to you confirming that your subscription has been changed to normal mode. You will start receiving new postings immediately.
Although CenterSpan Listserv is intended as a mailing list focused on transplantation issues, some people may want to cone down their subscription even further. To do this, we have designated three "topics" ("topic" is a special term in Listserv - it is a subcategory within the entire mailing list). These topics are: kidney, liver, and heart.
As outlined in the above section, "SENDING AND RECEIVING MESSAGES," to assign your message a particular topic, that term must be the first word in your subject field, followed by a full-colon (e.g., liver: hepatitis-c). System prefixes may appear before the topic term (e.g., re:liver: hepatitis-c). Any message whose subject does not start with one of the topic terms will be understood as being in a default topic: other.
When you are first subscribed to CenterSpan Listserv, you will receive the postings from all topics. You can alter your CenterSpan Listserv subscription to include or exclude one or more topics by sending a "set topics" command.
In other words, to remove a topic from a full set, use a minus sign immediately in front of the term. To reverse the action, use a plus sign.
All kidney: messages are cross-posted to Nephrol, a mailing list managed by Dr. Kim Solez, where they re-appear as tx: messages. Similarly, any tx: messages appearing on Nephrol are cross-posted to CenterSpan Listserv as kidney: messages. When posting messages related to kidney transplantation to CenterSpan Listserv, please use only the kidney: topic, since we have a software patch that automatically converts your kidney: designation to tx: in the process of cross-posting to Nephrol.
The server will respond by sending you a message showing all of your current subscription selections.
That's it. Within minutes, you will receive an email message with a summary of all the available commands for CenterSpan Listserv. If that does not help, you can send email to the list owners. For content and policy questions, send your message to either of the co-moderators: Daniel R. Salomon, MD (dsalomon@scripps.edu) or Bob Merion, MD (merionb@umich.edu)
Please be aware that medical advice, diagnoses and physician references cannot be obtained from this site.