The following are the instructions to get the new software, Lyris, to do what you would like it to do.

The RISKANAL posting address, i.e., the one you use when you want to send a message to all of the subscribers, is riskanal@lyris.pnl.gov.  Administrative requests, such as "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or requests to change the configuration of your subscription, should be sent to lyris@lyris.pnl.gov.

For example: 

If your name is John Doe, send the message "subscribe riskanal John Doe" to lyris@lyris.pnl.gov in order to subscribe to RISKANAL.

Send the message "unsubscribe riskanal" to lyris@lyris.pnl.gov to unsubscribe.

To reconfigure your subscription, send the message "set riskanal option1 option2" to lyris@lyris.pnl.gov, where you can specify several options from among the following choices:

mail = receive mail as it is contributed
digest = receive a daily digest with all of the messages of the day
index = receive a daily index of the subject lines of all of the messages of the day
nomail = suspend delivery of messages (to restart later, send the same command with option "mail" or "digest" or "index"
ack = when you post a message to the list, you will receive a confirmation that the message was distributed
noack = the opposite of ack
repro = when you post a message the list will also send you a copy of the message
norepro = the opposite of repro

The instructions above substantially understate the flexibility of Lyris in dealing with subscriber requests and with list manager requests.  Additional information about Lyris can be found at the Lyris web site http://www.lyris.com 

If you send the message "help" or "info" to the list administrative address lyris@lyris.pnl.gov, you will receive a message directing you to the Lyris web site.  The message "query riskanal" sent to the same address will produce a reply from Lyris describing your current RISKANAL subscription configuration. 

In addition, there is a web site interface for doing all of the above.  Point your web browser at the site www.lyris.pnl.gov/cgi-bin/lyris.pl 

The arrival menu will have a choice "Mailing list for risk professionals".  Click on that and you get a page with a "RISKANAL" link.  Click on that and you have a page that solicits your email address and password. You won't have a password, unless you set one up, so just enter the email address that you used when you subscribed to RISKANAL (which now appears in the footer to every message that RISKANAL sends you).  That will bring you to a menu that will let you unsubscribe or re-configure or read past messages.  The archive of past messages will start with the switchover to Lyris. 

The opening RISKANAL menu on the web site also has a button that will let someone subscribe to RISKANAL. 

As it happens, the web interface for interacting with Lyris and RISKANAL may go away sometime down the road.  Because of computer network security issues at the laboratory, the listserver may ending moving behind the firewall, at which point the web page will not be available and interaction with Lyris will have to be carried out using email commands.

Several of the old LISTSERV commands and addresses will be aliased so that they continue to work under Lyris, at least temporarily, but it would be better to learn to use the new commands and addresses. 

If you have any questions or if you see Lyris or the list behaving anomalously, please send an email (please don't send it to the whole list).  Best regards. Jim Dukelow, RISKANAL list manager (jim.dukelow@pnl.gov)