Events - Filter:

All registered Nonsite users can now subscribe to the two discussion lists/web discussion boards directly from their user profile pages (i.e., the "My account" link).

Just click the "Mailing Lists" tab in your profile, or in the User Tools menu in the right sidebar, and you can choose which list(s) you'd like to get and set a password for yourself. You'll receive a confirmation email to the email address you used when you registered for the website, and that's all there is to it.

The email lists are fully integrated with the two <a href="/forum">discussion boards</a> on the website, meaning you can post to the list and have your message and its replies appear on the web board -- or vice versa. In order to take full advantage of this, it's preferable that everyone who wants to participate in the web discussion boards also subscribe to the email lists. If you don't, you can still post on the website, but your messages will not be sent to the email list, thus decreasing the likelihood of people replying to you.

If you're worried about clogging up your inbox, go ahead and subscribe, then reply to the confirmation email. Once you do this, you can go back to your "Mailing Lists" options and set both lists to "nomail" just by clicking a button.

Any new site users registering after today will be automatically asked if they want to subscribe to the discussion lists when they first register.

Finally, if you're one of the few people who went ahead and subscribed to the lists using the old method, please go ahead and re-subscribe through your user profile now. You're actually still subscribed, and you'll get a message from the list software telling you exactly this. But this way both the website and the backend listserv software will know about your subscription.