IEEE 802.1 Email Lists
Name and Address Changes

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Updated October 30, 2008

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Name and address changes

Most types of changes are covered on the "Joining", "Signing off", and "Options" pages. This page covers ways of changing the name or address for an established subscription.

Name Changes

You are encouraged to associate your name with each subscription, especially if you have multiple addresses subscribed to the list. If delivery problems are reported, the list administrator can try to notify you using other addresses associated with the same name,

Names are just as private as addresses: by default, they are visible only to list owners and IEEE staff, but subscribers have the option of making them visible to the other participants.

To add or change a name associated with a subscribed address, just resubscribe the address with the name specified. You can do this from the "Web interfaces" page.

If your browser is configured to send email from the subscribed address, you can use the "subscribe" email command to associate a name. See the "Email commands" page.

Changing the subscription address

If you are changing email addresses, and you have access to both the old and new email accounts, you can transfer subscriptions to the new address. The associated name and selected options are preserved, and there is no wait for administrator approval.

Sometimes it may be easier simply to subscribe the new one (waiting for the administrator to approve) and then unsubscribe the old. Transfer takes several steps (but see the shortcut below!):

  1. Start with either
    • sending the email command (see "new address" on the "Email commands" page), or
    • changing the address in the login Web interface, and submitting with the "Update options" button.
  2. ListServ® sends a confirmation request to the old address, to which you must respond. (See the shortcut below.)
  3. ListServ® then sends a confirmation request to the new address. You must either
    • respond by email, with a "From:" header field matching the new address, or
    • respond using the confirmation URL in the request. (Be sure you have the entire URL; ListServ® has been known to end it with a "=-" sequence that some email readers do not recognize as included.)

      If you use the URL, ListServ® requires you to log in to its Web interface, which means you must also establish a password for the new address. (You can use the same password for multiple addresses.)

Shortcut: If you email the first confirmation from the new address, using the code that was emailed to the old address, ListServ® considers the whole sequence complete, combining steps 2 and 3! (I can't find this documented anywhere, but it worked when I tried it. —hdk)