icon shown in the ‘Share’ column
of the community workspace entry. Communities may also be used as shared e-mail distribution lists: By default, every community member has the right to send e-mail messages to the whole community. Of course, also the members of the associated community workspace may send e-mail messages to the community. Note, that your BSCW server has to be configured for e-mail distribution by your administrator.
You send an e-mail message to a community as follows:
•Go to the members’ page of the community workspace by clicking on the
icon shown in the ‘Share’ column
of the community workspace entry.
•Select 
in the action menu of the community (
). This will
present the ‘Send E-Mail’ form with the community e-mail address
already inserted into the ‘To:’ field. Alternatively, you may also select the
community and use 
(Send E-Mail) in the
multi-selection toolbar.
When you plan to use a community as shared mailing list, the admission policy should be hidden or closed and the community role should not include the right to invite or remove members, so that you can control community membership. As community role you should choose, e.g., Associate member, but not Member (includes right to destroy the whole community) or Manager (includes right to manage community membership).