Mail Lists at CSAIL

CSAIL uses Mailman, the GNU mailing list manager for mailing lists. Mailman is self service. You can may create a mailing list and modify it if you are its administrator. Depending on list setup, anyone can join a list, or invitations may be needed.

When a posting is sent to a mailing list, every member of the mailing list receives the message through an email. This way, only one email address is necessary to contact an entire group of people. The settings on a mailing list allow the choice of who can email the list; it can be the entire world, just the group members, or a specific group of people.

for List Members

• Popular Lab Mailing Lists
• CSAIL public lists/archives
• To subscribe to or unsubscribe from a list, click on its name to visit its info page
  • If you don’t see a link to it, try https://lists.csail.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/<i>LISTNAME</i>
  • For further details, see Section 5.1 of the official List Member Manual

for List Administrators and Moderators

• Best practices for setting up mailing lists
• Create a mailing list This form lets you do some crude customization; you can do finer-grained configuration once your list is created.
• We have a page with some tips and tricks for mailing-list administrators, including
  • using the listadmin command-line interface to list moderation
  • limiting who can subscribe to a list (e.g., only MIT addresses)
• You can change an existing list’s settings at https://lists.csail.mit.edu/mailman/admin/$LISTNAME, replacing $LISTNAME with the list’s short name (in lower case, without the @csail.mit.edu or @lists.csail.mit.edu part).
• Deleting a Mailing List
• Mailing List Spam Filtering
• official List Administrator Manual