UR(1)									UR(1)



NAME
  ur - update reflector

SYNOPSIS
  ur


DESCRIPTION
  ur is a locally written Unix command that allows easy management of email
  reflector address lists. It allows users to find which reflectors they
  still have, create new  ones, get rid of old ones or edit/add/delete
  addresses on existing ones. Reflectors can contain address for both local
  and remote users.

  Class reflectors

  In the special case of automatically populated class reflectors ur probably
  isn't needed much beyond their creation because these default to being
  updated daily	 from the class list database.	However, if the owner wants
  to include more non-registered students on the reflector such as teaching
  assistants, they'll need to use ur to edit an exception list for the
  reflector  which gets merged in when the update is done from the classlist.

  In the case of students in classes who are on commercial internet provid-
  ers, the exception list editing feature can be used. However, it is advis-
  able that you tell your students to control their own email delivery to
  their preferable site either by using the command: forwardmail at the main
  ezshell menu or going on the web to the url www.uwm.edu/IMT and clicking on
  the Alpha services link for forwarding mail, to send their mail off to
  their own commercial account. Otherwise one has to add them to the
  reflector's exception list, another professor has to add them to theirs,
  and so forth.

  The full name field in the reflector as created is not required in the
  reflector or exception list but is there to help the instructors associate
  login names with real names.

  Ur has the following options:

   1) Display your current reflectors.

   2) Create a new reflector.

	     Clients now have the ability to name and install their own reflectors
	     (new as of Fall 2000) instead of waiting for I&MT to authorize
	     and manually install them.

	     Class reflectors no longer default to
	     being named by their dept/course and section number.
	     These are created immediately from the online classlists,
	     automatically populated with students and the only
	     thing you may have to do is add your teaching assistants
	     to the exception list (option 6).

	     Non-class reflectors can be populated by the owner of the
	     reflector using the "ur" command, or !ur from the ez menu,
	     see option 5 below.


   3) Submit a request to delete an old reflector.

   4) View a reflector on the screen.

   5) Edit a mail reflector. (note: class reflectors updated daily.)

   6) Edit the exception list of a class based reflector.
      (this is not for non-class-based reflectors)

   8) Exit.



AUTHOR
  Dave Rasmussen, IMT January 1997


SEE ALSO
  forwardmail(1)