Popular Lab Mailing Lists
You are automatically subscribed to several mailing lists:
- csail-all -- Important CSAIL announcements. examples
- csail-announce -- Announcements about CSAIL Events. examples
- csail-related -- General CSAIL discussion. examples
- seminars -- Announcements of seminars sponsored by CSAIL or of interest to its members.
- floor mailing lists (second-floor, third-floor, d4, g4, d5, g5, g6, g7, g8, g9)
- grads -- All CSAIL graduate students. (If you're a grad student.)
- undergrads -- All CSAIL undergraduate students, e.g. UROPs. (If you're an undergrad.)
There are several mailing lists at the lab that you may find it helpful to subscribe to. Feel free to add to this list.
- syshack -- Technical discussion.
- workstations-announce -- Announcements regarding TIG-supported workstation platforms.
- workstation-discuss -- Discussion and help with CSAIL Debian Linux workstations.
- java-hackers -- Java programming discussion and help.
- cyclists -- Bicycing, parking, and other human-powered transport issues; low-volume. examples
- matlab-users -- Discussion and announcements related to the Matlab package from Mathworks.
- mac-users -- Discussion and announcements related to the use of the Mac platform at CSAIL.
- mswindows-users -- Discussion and announcements related to the use of the Microsoft Windows platform at CSAIL.
- vultures -- Announcements about free food at CSAIL.
- machine-shop -- CSAIL machine shop announcements.
- csail-lasercutter -- CSAIL laser cutter problems, tips, and questions.
- stata-reuse, stata-reuse-ask, stata-reuse-sell, stata-reuse-discuss -- Reuse lists for the Stata community only. For free things, asking for things, selling things, and discussing the lists respectively.
Examples of messages appropriate to each list
csail-all
- fire alarm testing
- announce building damage
- vassar street traffic flow changes
- network outages
- csail research abstracts
- energy crisis
csail-announce
Attachments in proprietary formats will not be permitted, and plain text without attachments is strongly encouraged.
- next Monday and Tuesday are institvte holidays.
- invitation to a commencement reception
- csail awarded 10k cpu hours on sun grid
- Nominations for the Dertouzos Lecture Series
- CSAIL organizational changes
- Announcement for Dertouzos Lecture Series
- 4th floor terrace furniture has arrived
- GSL (one announcement per term)
- GSB (one announcement per term)
- CSW (one announcement per term)
- Olympics (one announcement per term)
- Holiday party invitation (one announcement per term)
- come to the 4th floor for ice cream social in two weeks.
- new csail lab calendar
- machine shop mess
- new course announcement
- sign up for _ IM sport (one announcement per sport per term)
csail-related
- Stata survey
- pet policy: request for comments
- come to the 4th floor for ice cream social now.
- I need a thingamabob for my whatsit. Do you happen to have one?
- This is probably a naive question, but...
- I have an apartment that you want to move into
- I am going to six flags. Wanna come?
- weekly GSB announcement
- volunteers needed for tours
- I'm in the walk for hunger. support me.
- Clean up your #$@%@ from the Xth floor!
- Micro$oft sucks
- Don't send attachments in stupid proprietary formats!
cyclists@csail
- someone locked my bike to theirs. come get it or lose it.
- how do I fix X?
- do you have a patch kit/spoke wrench/etc.
- we're having a cycle repair workshop, wanna come?
- I'm going for a ride, wanna come?
