Games Club at Cornell

A mailing list? What's that?

It's an easy way to email the entire club with a single message, without having to remember everyone's email addresses.

Won't my inbox be full of messages from the club?

Not really. It's fairly low traffic, with maybe a few messages a week. Traffic will occasionally spike to higher levels during a protracted discussion (such as the recent Constitution rewrite); rest assured if said discussion only involves two people arguing, they will be asked to take it off list.

What sorts of messages can I expect to see?

You'll see messages from people looking for players for, or someone who can bring a copy of, a particular game. RPG groups also organize using the list. You'll also see the occasional administrative message from one of the officers or the advisor. Realistically, the list can be used for anything related to games or gaming. We do however try to keep the list on-topic. The list isn't moderated, but the list owners do frown on people sending messages to the games club list that, for instance, ask if anyone wants to go see Snakes on a Plane.

Sounds good, how do I sign up?

Send an email to lyris@cornell.edu with no subject and the following line of text in the body:

join gamers-l "Your Name"

Replace the words Your Name with your name. The quotes are required. So, if your name is Abrahamo Lincolni, and you want to join the list, you'd send an email to lyris@cornell.edu, leaving the subject line blank, and putting only this line of text in the body:

join gamers-l "Abrahamo Lincolni"

Anything else I should know?

When you reply to a message that came from the list, you're replying to the list, not to the sender. As a result, everyone on the list will see your reply. If you don't want this result, you should change your reply to go directly to the sender.

Not that I have any reason to, but how would I unsubscribe from the list?

Send an email to lyris@cornell.edu with no subject and the following line of text in the body:

leave gamers-l

Longtime members will note that you now have to email "lyris" instead of "listproc" and that the command names have changed to "join" and "leave".

I thought the list name was "gamers." Where'd the -L come from?

The Games Club mailing list has been around since before CIT required the use of "-l" to denote a mailing list, and is one of the four lists from that era still active today. So, until recently, you could just email "gamers" and get the list. Unfortunately, with the advent of new mandated mailing list technology, we had to change the name of the list to "gamers-l" to meet new CIT standards.

I was on the old mailing list. Do I need to resubscribe?

No, anyone who was on the "gamers" list was automatically subscribed to the "gamers-l" list.