When you register on this website and choose "yes" for joining the email discussion List (or if you previously were on the List), your name and email address are manually entered into an online database. The ICWP-L List is hosted on the Netspace.org server, a non-profit hosting service.

The ICWP-L List address is ICWP-L@LISTS.NETSPACE.ORG, and the messages you recieve will come from that address, and once registered, that is the address you will send messages to as well.

The LISTSERV computer receives the emails sent by subscribers and forwards a copy of each message to everyone whose name and address for the list. The LISTSERV which handles ICWP-L emails has its own administrative address: LISTSERV@LISTS.NETSPACE.ORG. 

Another way of understanding the difference between the ICWP-L List address and the LISTSERV address is to think of the ICWP-L List address as a room full of playwrights eagerly awaiting your messages about playwriting.

The LISTSERV however, is a computer which will only do what it's told to do (when you send COMMANDS to it) and it isn't the slightest bit interested in messages about playwriting or any other topic that interests real people.

A mail worker just sorts and delivers the mail: he or she doesn't read it in transit and is only interested in any delivery instructions, like First Class, Second Class, Express, Return to Sender, Forwarding Address, Air Mail etc.

These delivery instructions are like Listserv Commands. LISTSERV is like a mail worker and just wants to know "What do you want done with your mail?"

And that's where your Account Settings come in....

Account settings Each subscriber has their own account, where their Settings are stored. These settings affect the way a subscriber receives List mail. Each subscriber can change their account settings anytime they like, as can the List Owner or List Administrator.

Changing Account Settings:

There are 2 methods of changing your account settings.

Method 1. Using a password and web control panel, which you access through your internet web browser programme (Internet Explorer. Netscape, Opera etc.) Very simple to use, but more time-consuming than Method 2.

Method 2. Using email Commands sent to the LISTSERV computer. Very fast, but you need to type the commands in an exact format and send the commands to the correct email address - commands need to be sent to the LISTSERV address, not to the ICWP-L List address.

To use the web browser control panel you first need to register a List password.

* Using email commands sent to the LISTSERV computer. Email commands need to be exact. You can copy and paste any of the commands on this page into your email message. Send the message which appears between the dotted lines to LISTSERV@LISTS.NETSPACE.ORG

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SET ICWP-L NOMAIL

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Don't add anything in the message area. Put only a single space in the Subject Line Turn off Signatures, if you normally use them.

Check that you are sending the email to LISTSERV@LISTS.NETSPACE.ORG Then "send". LISTSERV knows who you are from your List email address and will send you an email by return, acknowledging that it has received your command. Until you receive the LISTSERV acknowledgement email, it isn't safe to assume your command has been carried out.

To begin receiving List email again, repeat the steps above, but send this command instead

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SET ICWP-L MAIL

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* enter the e-mail address you use to receive ICWP-L List messages

* enter a personal password (twice)

* Click "Register a Password"

* You will receive an email asking you to confirm your password.

* Follow the instructions in the email to activate your password.

http://lists.netspace.org/cgi-bin/wa?S1=icwp-l&X=-

SET ICWP-L DIGEST

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*To receive all of each day's messages in one long HTML message per day, rather than individual messages as they are processed by the Listserv (HTML Digest). (This format contains each List message only once and is much smaller than the "Traditional" Digest: average 75k

SET ICWP-L HTML DIGEST

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*To receive individual messages as they are processed by the Listserv (NoDigest)

SET ICWP-L NODIGEST

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*To receive one posting per day containing only an index of subject topics for all messages during the previous day. Instructions on how to retrieve the individual postings are included in the message (Index).

SET ICWP-L INDEX

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*To change from Index and return to "Traditional" Digest (see above)

SET ICWP-L NOINDEX

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*Remember the Commands are sent to LISTSERV@LISTS.NETSPACE.ORG NOT the ICWP-L List address.(ICWP-L@LISTS.NETSPACE.ORG)

NOTE: A complete list of all Listserv commands and their functions can be found in the List Users manual which can be downloaded or read online at: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/1.8d/user/user.html#2.11

* Using the web browser control panel. Once you have accessed your own account Control Panel, click on the button marked "Leave ICWP-L"

To use the web browser control panel you first need to register a List password.

* Using email commands sent to the LISTSERV computer. Email commands need to be exact. You can copy and paste any of the commands on this page into your email message. Send the message between the dotted lines to LISTSERV@LISTS.NETSPACE.ORG

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SIGNOFF ICWP-L

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Don't add anything in the message area. Put only a single space in the Subject Line Turn off Signatures, if you normally use them.

Check that you are sending the email to LISTSERV@LISTS.NETSPACE.ORG Then "send".

LISTSERV knows who you are from your List email address and will send you an email by return, acknowledging that it has received your command. Until you receive the LISTSERV confirmation email, it isn't safe to assume your command has been carried out.

If all else fails and you are still receiving the LISTSERV, email the Membership Secretary.