CLASS MAILING LIST

• Introduction

  I normally set up an electronic mailing list for each of my courses. The purpose of this list is to allow students to ask questions or discuss course material with their fellow students (and professor). Occasionally, I may send a message to correct something that I said in class, or to clarify an ambiguous homework problem.

  For the course G22.1170.001 taught in the Spring of 1996, the name of list is g22_1170_001_sp96. I will use this name in examples below. For a course V22.0201.002 taught in the Fall of 1997, the name would be v22_0201_002_fl97. You should be able to extrapolate what your particular class list is called.

  Please note that (starting Fall 2000), each mailing list actually has its own webpage so that users can register using a browser. For instance, the course V22.0310.001 in the fall of 2000 has the link http://www.cs.nyu.edu/mailman/listinfo/v22_0310_001_fl00

• Proper Use

  Please do not abuse this mailing list (e.g., it is not the place to advertise to sell something). Just before an exam, students sometimes flood the mailing list with a bunch of questions. Some of this may be appropriate but try to conserve bandwidth. If you ask me a question and I feel it is of general interest, I may broadcast the question and answer. (If you want to avoid this, be sure to tell me in advance).

• Subscribing

  To join our mailing list, send an e-mail message to majordomo@cs.nyu.edu (an automated list processor---not a real person). The body (not header) of your message should consist of the following two lines:

         subscribe g22_1170_001_fl96
         help
  

  The first line will register you under your user name and the name of the machine you sent the email from. This means that if you send the email to majordomo@cs.nyu.edu (see below) from another machine, you will not be recognized and hence your message will not be sent.
  The second line (help) gives you some further information. In particular, you will receive in the email a list of all the commands that majordomo@cs.nyu.edu understands.

• Sending Mail

  If you want to send e-mail to the entire mailing list, just send an e-mail message to g22_1170_001_fl96@cs.nyu.edu. If you are not on the mailing list, you may want to add your address to the cc line. Note: To send e-mail to me only, send it to yap@cs.nyu.edu, not to the entire mailing list. Likewise, if you want to reply to the individual who sent a message via the mailing list, make sure you do not broadcast it to everyone.

• Unsubscribing

  If you want to remove your address from the mailing list, send an e-mail message to majordomo@cs.nyu.edu, with the body of your message consisting of one line:

                      unsubscribe g22_1170_001_fl96
  

• Other Requests to Majordomo

  You can send other requests (or commands) to majordomo@cs by sending an email containing the requests in the body, not in the subject line, of the email. Majordomo ignores the subject line. You can combine several requests in one email, one request per line of the email body. E.g., a valid request is the body containing just the word help.

  Some Useful Requests:

  help

  General help, including available commands.

  lists

  Gives a list of all the mailing lists in the system.

  info <list-name>

  Gives information about a particular mailing list named <list-name>.

  intro <list-name>

  Introductory message for the list. You get this message automatically when first subscribed to the list.

  subscribe <list-name> [your-email-address]

  subscribe to <list-name> using [your-email-address]. You can omit [your-email-address], which then defaults to where you are sending your email from.

  which [your-email-address]

  gives the mailing lists which [your-email-address] is subscribed to. Again [your-email-address] is optional.

  who <list-name>

  lists all subscribers to <list-name>. You must generally be a member of the list <list-name> for this command to work.

  HINT: If your mailer automatically generate a "signature" for your messages, you might want to end your requests with a line containing just the word end, to prevent majordomo from generating error messages from your "signature".

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  Last updated: Chee, 9/9/97