The SEWER-LIST an email mailing list (listserv), is intended to facilitate communication about the design, permitting, construction, operation and maintenance of sanitary and storm sewers, lift stations, detention basins, and treatment plants.
As of March, 2006, the SEWER-LIST has more than 475 subscribers from all around the world.
To join, send the message
subscribe sewer-list YourFirstName YourLastName
to the e-mail address
listproc@lists.cc.utexas.edu
To switch yourself between "ack" (normal) mode and "digest" (one big mailing every week or so) mode, send the appropriate message
SET sewer-list mail ack
SET sewer-list mail digest
to the e-mail address
listproc@lists.cc.utexas.edu
When you receive your automated "Welcome to the List" message, it will start off with lots of information about your password. You can disregard it, since we don't use passwords on this list. The reason for submitting your name is to help the list owner figure out what is happening when email starts bouncing from people whose mail was being forwarded.
To learn how to search the archives, click here.
To Un-Subscribe from the list, send the message
unsub sewer-list
to the e-mail address
listproc@lists.cc.utexas.edu
The Sewer-List has a 100% effective anti-spam feature, but it sometimes causes problems for the members. That feature is: If the list management software receives a message from somebody whose email address it doesn't recognize, it rejects the message and sends them an email saying that only list members can post to the list. This prevents (essentially) all junk mail from ever reaching the list, but it also means that a member whose email address has changed cannot post to the list. The problem is that sometimes a person's employer changes their email address for outgoing messages but arranges so they continue receiving incoming mail sent to their old address (for awhile). The person may not even know that their outgoing address has changed. They may continue to receive messages from the Sewer-List that were sent to their old address, but one day when they decide to post a message they get one of the "never heard of you" automatic replies. If this happens to you, please let me know your old and new addresses and I will unsubscribe one and subscribe the other.
The list management software also automatically unsubscribes anyone if email sent to their address bounces back undeliverable. If you Internet service provider goes down briefly while the list is sending you a message you will probably be unsubscribed without any warning...it has happened even to me. If you think this might have happened, just try to subscribe yourself as explained at the top of this page...if you are not a subscriber the software will add you, and if you are a subscriber it will tell you so and not double-subscribe you.
Return
to the Water, Wastewater, Environmental Engineering area of the SwopNet
Engineering Databank page
There you will find lots more information, including the Septic Tank page, Sewers of London history and a link to the Thomas Crapper page.