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Moira List Settings Legend
 | If you have questions surrounding the list creation process, please contact the Service Desk at 617-253-1101 or send an e-mail to servicedesk@mit.edu. |
List Name |
This name can contain letters, numbers, underscores, and dashes. It may contain a period if it refers to an MIT course number and is officially associated with that course. The list name should be entirely lower case, no upper case characters are allowed.
If your list is a mailing list, the address for your list will be listname@mit.edu on the MIT mail servers. Try avoiding names which may easily be confused with other groups or purposes. For example, a name such as study-help-ee@mit.edu is probably a better choice than help@mit.edu. |
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Description |
A short description may be specified for a moira list. This description is displayed for lists which are not marked hidden. |
List Owners |
Every moira list must be owned by one or more owners. Owners have the power to update the membership of a list, or change its attributes such as visibility or name.
If more than one owner is requested for any given list, a second list, usually in the form of listname-owner, is created. This list holds the owners for the list listname and is then made the owner of the list listname. Modifications to a moira list can be made online using WebMoira by following these steps or by using the blanche command while connected to an Athena dialup |
Public Lists |
Moira lists can be made either public or private. By default, a list will be private. If a list is made public, any Athena user can add themselves to the list by using the list administration tools. If a list is private, the list owner will be the only one who can add new members to the list.
Public lists are a good choice for MIT wide discussion lists where any member of the MIT community can subscribe, as well as lists that are used for essentially public information or discussions which see high turnover rates in their membership. |
Hidden Lists |
Moira lists can be either hidden or visible. By default, a list is visible, which means that other Athena users can look up basic information about this list, such as its membership, description, or its owners.
If a list is made hidden, that information is available only to the list owners. List members cannot view the membership or the information for a hidden list, unless they are also owners. |
Mailing Lists |
Moira lists are by default, also mailing lists. That means that the members of the list can be e-mailed through the address listname@mit.edu, which will distribute the mail the all the members of the list. Such a list may include e-mail addresses for users outside of MIT.
You may choose to not make your list a mailing list. This is useful if you want to use the list as an access group for an Athena file system, but do not want it to be an e-mail address. |
AFS Groups |
In addition to (or instead of) being a mailing list, a moira list can also be a group. A group can be used as an access control list on the AFS file system, for example. If you wish to be able to set access permissions on an Athena directory or locker for the members of your list, you should choose to make it a group.
Note: Only Athena users on your list will be able to take advantage of this feature. If you have any other members on your list, such as e-mail addresses outside of MIT, they will not be able to access Athena file systems. |
NFS Groups |
While AFS groups (the default type) are what you need for giving permissions on most Athena lockers, if the locker in question is an NFS file system (such as a directory mounted from a private workstation), then access is granted via an NFS group.
Note: Only Athena users on your list will be able to take advantage of this feature. If you have any other members on your list, such as e-mail addresses outside of MIT, they will not be able to access Athena file systems. |
List Members |
The members are the e-mail addresses that will receive the mail sent to this list. If your list of members and list of administrators are the same, you probably want a self-owned list. |
Self-Owned Lists |
A list may have itself designated as its own owner; this means that anyone on the list can add and remove members. If all of the people you are specifying for owners are also going to be the only members of your list, then you probably want a self-owned list. If your list is meant to be managed by one or more people, but the list itself is larger, then you probably do not want a self-owned list. |
