Here are two of Bill Rowan's early email messages concerning the 
universal algebra mailing list he started. (Note: Bill later
decided that due to high traffic the list will be unmoderated.)



From: "William H. Rowan" 
Apparently-To: kearnes@louisville.edu

The univalg mailing list for Universal Algebra

Dear Colleague:

I have established a mailing list for Universal Algebra, having
felt for a long time that this was something that would be useful.  The
mailing list is at the onelist.com web facility.

It is a moderated mailing list, for now, with me as the only moderator for
the time being.  (My policy will be that anything that isn't spam or harmful
to someone else, i.e. libelous, will be accepted.  I am open to sharing
the task of moderating with someone else.)

This mailing is going out to people on George Gratzer's UA home page list of
researchers in Universal Algebra.

To subscribe, you can register for the univalg list on the web at
http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/univalg, or send e-mail to
univalg-subscribe@onelist.com.  To submit a message to the list, you
just have to e-mail it to univalg@onelist.com.

If you have any problems doing any of this, you can send me e-mail at 
univalg-owner@onelist.com.

Onelist.com has a fully-featured mailing list system, and I have arranged
for advertising to be turned off for this list.  They do periodically
send messages to a list onelist_announce, to which you will be subscribed
automatically as a onelist.com user.  If you find this annoying,
it is possible to unsubscribe from that list by sending an e-mail message
to onelist_announce-unsubscribe@onelist.com, or by going to the main
onelist.com web site, http://www.onelist.com.

The mailing list is set up so that replies to messages go out to the
whole list.  Please bear this in mind.  If for some reason you subscribe,
and then change your mind, you can unsubscribe at the main web site or send
e-mail to univalg-unsubscribe@onelist.com.

Bill Rowan



To: kearnes@louisville.edu
Subject: [univalg] Welcome to univalg@onelist.com
From: univalg-owner@onelist.com
Reply-to: univalg@onelist.com

Hello, welcome to the univalg list on universal algebra.  Please
take a moment to review this message.

The univalg list is about universal algebra.  Examples of posts
that would be interesting are queries about universal algebra,
news about relavent web sites, announcements of conferences,
etc.  I moderate the group and my moderation policy is currently
that anything that is not spam or harmful (libelous, etc.) is OK.

Onelist has some e-mail commands that you may find useful.
To unsubscribe from the list, send an e-mail to
univalg-unsubscribe@onelist.com. To switch to digest mode
(one message per day combining all posts for that day) send
an e-mail to univalg-digest@onelist.com.  To switch back to
single-message mode, send an e-mail to
univalg-normal@onelist.com.

One thing you may want to do is to send an e-mail to
onelist_announce-unsubscribe@onelist.com.  Otherwise, they
will periodically send you news messages about their service,
how to get a Onelist tee shirt, etc.

 If you have any problems doing any of this, please send e-mail to
me at univalg-owner@onelist.com.

Thanks, Bill Rowan (univalg-owner@onelist.com)