Mac Ministry List
The Mac Ministry List was created to help Mac-using missionaries who had little access to technical support. Over the years, it has grown into CMUG’s online community forum. Join the conversation by subscribing.
At this moment there are currently two Mac Ministry mailing lists, but these are in the process of being merged. The main list is still the recommended list to join.
Mac Ministry main list
The original and main list server software was upgraded to a new program, known as Mailman, on February 19, 2011 with the aim of creating a more reliable and flexible list to serve this community's membership in the years to come. Please read "Letter from the CMUG Board" for more information.
To subscribe and receive individual e-mails, click this link and send the e-mail it creates.
To unsubscribe from the list, click this link and send the e-mail it creates.
Alternatively, or to change your options e.g. to a single e-mail digest of messages, use the new web page for subscriptions:
As a member, to send a message to the main list, email mac-ministry@lists.macministry.org as before. Members who prefer a shorter address may use mac-min@catug.org.
Filtering your emails
To filter your emails into a separate folder, a simple rule for subject lines containing "[Mac-Min]" will continue to work as it has in the past. However, this would mix off-list replies sent to you into the list traffic.
A more specific way to filter Mac-Min messages is to filter by Mailman's "list-id" header. All messages sent through Mac-Min will have a list-id header that contains "mac-min_catug.org.catug.org" (without quotes).
In Apple Mail, if List-id is not in the list of fields that you can use in Rules, then select Edit Header List.
This brings up the Message Headers window; click on the + tool at the lower left, and add List-id.
After this, you will be able to use List-id in the same way that you could already filter on From, To, Subject etc.
Mac Ministry via mac-min.org
This is the new list. It was set up in 2010 and people were invited to subscribe; see CATUG wiki: Transition Announcements. However, the leadership has not endorsed it; although it is up and running and some discussions have been held there, it will shortly be subsumed back into the main list.
This list has its own Mailman management page. From here you can subscribe to the list, unsubscribe from the list, and change certain options such as whether to receive messages in regular mode or digest mode.
As a member, to send a message to the new list while it remains, email mac-ministry@lists.mac-min.org
Archives
There are no online email archives of the old or new lists. This is intentional, and preferred by a significant number of CMUG members. Instead, this Wiki was set up partly to serve as a repository of some of the best advice which may be of lasting or wider value.
Special purpose lists
- Editors List
There is a mailing list for web editors and those interested in contributing to the web presence of CMUG (blog, this wiki). You can subscribe from the mailman listinfo page. This is a public list with a private archive.
- Admin lists
As of January 2011, the interim CMUG Operations group have a private list for discussion of governance and future changes; see Current status for the membership of this group. The CMUG Board have a separate list.
The tech team who set up mac-min.org already had a separate list for administrative matters, to save stuff of a boring or technical nature from being sent to all members.
See also
- CATUG wiki:Transition Announcements - the announcement of the new list, and subsequent statements