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Last updated 10.08.07

Mailing Lists @ CSE

What is a Mailing List?

Mailing lists provide a single email address for a group of people. CSE provides a number of lists for the purpose of keeping people informed of topics relevant to the school and/or their research interests. Some of these lists are tabulated below. They are all based upon mlalias which has a CLI.

There is also a mailman installation for people who require a web-based front-end for their mailing list. These lists live at http://lists.cse.unsw.edu.au/. Since mailman is more flexible for users than mlalias CSG prefers new mailing lists to be created under mailman.

Regardless of whether you use mlalias or mailman to maintain your mailing list it requires authorisation from SS to set one up.

NOTE: Not all people are eligible to be on all lists. Lists can be open or closed (among other things). Anyone can add themselves to an open list (using the mlalias command), but only an owner of a closed list can add people to that list.

You can find out about joining, using and creating local mailing lists by having a look at the mlalias manual page.

There is a searchable index of the School's mail aliases and a collection of archived mailing lists.

There are recommended guidelines for reading and writing email.

Emailing all students in a Degree or Course

The mlalias program can read the User DataBase (UDB) and construct mailing lists based upon UDB classes. This makes it easy for people to reach everybody in the same UDB class, by simply appending -list to the UDB class and use that as the email address.

to email all students enrolled in COMP1011 mail comp1011_student-list
to email all students enrolled in a first year computing course mail comp1_student-list
to email all students enrolled in a first year course mail comp1_student-list, seng1_student-list, biom1_student-list, binf1_student-list
to email all students enrolled in BSc (Comp Sc) mail 3978-list
to email all students enrolled in COMP1011 in session 1 2004 mail comp1011_Student-list-04s1 OR comp1011.2004.s1@enrol.program

It is not currently possible to email all students at a particular stage in their degree.

This pattern holds true for all UDB classes and so many other mailing lists can be constructed, not just those involving students. See also the FAQ. However, just because you can construct the pattern doesn't mean you can actually send email to the people on the resultant list. Most of these lists are restricted.

Some Potentially Useful/Interesting Mailing Lists

School of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)
Student Office
postgrad All enquiries regarding postgraduate coursework.
undergrad All enquiries regarding undergraduate matters.
research All enquiries regarding postgraduate research.
so-staff All announcements to full-time CSE Student Office Staff. Student enquiries directed to this group will not receive a response.
office All general announcements (eg. assignment submission notification) for all CSE Student Office staff including Casuals. Student enquiries directed to this group will not receive a response.
roombookings All requests for room bookings and enquiries. STAFF ONLY.
all-staff All CSE staff.
academic-staff CSE academic staff.
teaching-staff Academics and administrators.
general-staff General Staff of CSE.
cse-announce Official announcements to all staff and postgrad research students.
cse-school-issues Discussion of school and computing issues for all staff, visitors, tutors research and 4th year students - voluntary membership.
cse-discussion Discussion of general issues for all staff and postgrad research students - voluntary membership.
facilities i) reporting all non-urgent problems regarding and
ii) requesting changes to: buildings, infrastructure and all non-computer facilities and equipment in the School.
iii) reporting new staff arrivals and staff relocations
finance Budgets, Travel, Casual appointments and pay claims, Paperwork advice, Non-order payments, Account enquires, Financial policy advice, Petty cash advice
stores * Motor Vehicle bookings
* Data Projector bookings
* Mobile Phone bookings
* Asset relocations
* Requests for removal of unwanted/unused/obsolete assets
* Stores stock requests (pens, pencils, trays etc.)
* Advance notification of bulk photocopying requirements
* Notification of personal deliveries
printers Reporting problems and requesting maintenance for printers
photocopiers Reporting problems and requesting maintenance for photocopiers
Students
all-students Official announcements for students.
stu-general General announcements for students - voluntary membership.
soc-announce General announcements for students from student societies - voluntary membership.
stu-forum General discussion for students - voluntary, opt-in membership.
stu-reps The student representatives for CSE.
pgrad-coursework-students CSE Postgraduate Coursework Students.
research-students CSE Postgraduate Research Students.
masters-thesis-students CSE Postgrad Non-Research Thesis Students.
ugrad-students CSE Undergrad Students.
ugrad-thesis-students CSE Undergrad Thesis Students.
Committeees
cse-cc Computing Committee.
cse-tc Teaching Committee.
cse-sc Security Committee.
Miscellaneous
ask The self help mail list - users can send and receive help on this list.
csg-info Computer Support Group (CSG) system advisories.
seminar-unsw Local People Interested In Seminars.
 

For those involved in Artificial Intelligence
ai-unsw General announcements for everybody involved with AI at UNSW. This list includes the groupies, students, staff and courtesy lists below.
ai-staff-unsw All UNSW staff who work in AI.
ai-studs-unsw All students doing an AI thesis (Synonymous with ai_thesis-list).
AI_Courtesy-list All those with courtesy accounts who work in AI.
ai-groupies-unsw People interested in the workings of the AI department who aren't in the other lists.
ml-group Machine Learning Group.
neuro-unsw Local Neural Networks People.
 

Computer Systems Engineering Group
cseg.all Computer Systems Engineering Group. Includes the DOCS groups below.
cseg.as Computer Systems Engineering Group Academic Staff.
cseg.pg Computer Systems Engineering Group Postgraduates.
 

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