Only list administrators may add members (other than themselves) to an e-list. See Join an E-list if your want to be added yourself.

Add Members via Lyris Web Interface

With this method of entering many members at once you will only enter email addresses, not members’ names.

1. Log in to the Lyris administrator web interface.
   - How do I log in?
   - Take me to the login page.
2. On the left, click Members.
3. Hover over Add Members. A sub-menu will open.
4. Click Add Many Members.
5. In the Email addresses box, type (or cut & paste) email addresses, with one address per line. With this method of adding members you cannot include the members’ names.
6. If you want the new members to receive your list’s welcome message,
   1. Click the Settings tab.
   2. For Membership status, select needs-hello - send a hello doc then set to 'normal'
7. Click Save.

Add Members via Email Commands

To add multiple members to a list, send an email message to listname-request@cornell.edu  

where listname is the name of the list including the hyphen and the letter L at the end of the list name.

Your message will have several (or many) lines of text, based on the following syntax:

login password
add quiet subform <<
name emailaddress
name emailaddress
name emailaddress
>>
end

where

• password is your password as administrator of the e-list
• emailaddress is the full address of the new member
• name is the name of the person being added

The names are optional. You can include names on some lines and not on others if that suits your needs.

There should be no quotation marks anywhere in your message.

Variations

The syntax described above will add each address as a normal member of your list, without asking the people for confirmation and without sending them the “Hello, welcome to the list” message.

• If you want people to receive the “Hello” message, remove the word “quiet.”
• If an address is already a member of the list, this syntax will change their status to “normal.” If you want current members to remain with their current status, remove the word “subform.”