American Ethical Union: Ethical Culture Mailing Lists

Please read the expectations and guidelines before subscribing or posting to any of these lists.

To unsubscribe from the mailing lists after you have subscribed, please follow the directions which come when you initially subscribed, or find the email list's online page.

Note: AEU lists require that you confirm your subscription when you first subscribe. This will prevent others from subscribing you without your permission, and will verify that the email address provided actually reaches you. In addition, you will probably get an email message asking to which Society you belong or whether you're an at-large member or a friend of the AEU, and, depending on the purpose of the list, perhaps also asking you to identify yourself by name and/or role. This is necessary to keep the topics targeted and to keep subscriber email addresses from being harvested for mass emailing.

Basic mailing lists available are:

Announce: For special announcements and notices of broad interest to member and friends. This list is open to the public. All members and non-members are encouraged to subscribe. Because we would like to include as many people as possible, and since some do not wish to receive a lot of mail, the postings on this list will be kept very limited. This list will accept only postings submitted by national professional staff and by the Presidents of both the AEU and the National Leaders' Council.

List information and subscriptions

Dialogue: For general discussion among members of the Ethical Movement. Any subscriber can post messages to be distributed to everyone else. Currently, members of local Societies and Fellowships, members-at-large, and friends of the AEU may subscribe.

	List information and subscription
	Guidelines for postings

Web-L: For discussion among those developing and maintaining web sites and other internet presence for the AEU and its members, member societies and fellowships.

	List information and subscription
	Guidelines for postings

Growth-L: For discussion of membership growth issues, both the growth of local societies and the growth of the AEU.

	List information and subscription
	Guidelines for postings

EthicalAction: For discussion of ethical action issues at the AEU level.

	List charter and guidelines
	List information and subscription

Board: For discussion of AEU board issues among members of the AEU board and chairs/coordinators of major AEU committees. Board members are automatically subscribed, and should address subscription questions to

	Leaders: For discussion of professional issues among Leaders and Leaders-in-Training. Eligible subscribers should write to for subscription questions.
	More lists

Sending Messages

You communicate to the mailing lists and the mailing list software by e-mail. There are two types of messages you can send: "postings" and "requests."

Postings are messages that you want the mailing list software (called "Mailman") to distribute to an entire list. Each list has a unique address where all postings (and only postings) should be sent. For example, messages to be distributed to the Dialogue list should be sent to dialogue@aeu.org.

Your entire message, including the "subject" line, will be sent to everyone without any changes. Please note that you must "subscribe" to a list (see below) before it will accept your postings.

Requests

Each list also has a unique address where subscription problems should be sent - it is the same as the listname, but with -admin added to the list's title. Thus, subscription problems with the Dialogue list should be sent to dialogue-admin@aeu.org. And each list has a web page for subscribing, list information, and unsubscribing. These pages can be found for public lists at http://ethicalculture.org/mailman/listinfo/ and each list has its own page which is this address plus the name of the list -- Dialogue's page, for instance, is at http://ethicalculture.org/mailman/listinfo/dialogue.

More Help

For more help with the technology of AEU email lists, see the Mailman List Member Manual (on another site). Not all the features listed there may be available on any particular AEU list, but it does answer the most common technical questions that mailing list members may have.