ENSC E-MAIL LISTS PRIMER

Mailing lists may be either of two types depending on which mail server is used.

Academic Computing Services (ACS) Maillist

Uses the ACS Mail Server and all addresses end in @sfu.ca

Example:ensc-ucc@sfu.ca

Faculty of Applied Sciences (FASnet) Mail Alias

Uses the FASnet Mail Server and all addresses end in @ensc.sfu.ca

Example: ensc-faculty@ensc.sfu.ca

ENSC makes use of both ACS and FASnet Mail Servers.

DEPARTMENTAL MAILING LISTS

Allow members of the department to send a message to a group within the department and the address will depend upon whether the list resides on the ACS or the FASnet Mail Server. Maintenance of departmental lists is the responsibility of General Office Staff. Whether the lists resides on the ACS or CSS system depends on the whim of the General Office staff member maintaining the list.

Example: ensc-faculty@cs.sfu.ca is a FASnet Mail Alias on the FASnet Mail Server

Note: General Office staff update the FASnet lists by sending an email message to gripe@cs.sfu.ca only FAS NSG staff can update these lists at the request of the General Office Staff member who maintains the list.

Example: ensc-ucc@sfu.ca is an ACS Maillist on the ACS Mail Server

Here is the June, 2001 Departmental list:

Maintained by	Email Group	Members
General Office	ensc@ensc.sfu.ca	All ENSC Faculty & ENSC Staff All Grads & Undergrads Researchers/visitors/sessionals, etc
General Office	ensc-dept@ensc.sfu.ca	All ENSC Faculty & Staff
General Office	ensc-researchers@sfu.ca	ENSC Researchers,visitors,sessionals
General Office	ensc-faculty@ensc.sfu.ca	All ENSC Faculty
General Office	ensc-grads@ensc.sfu.ca	All ENSC grads
General Office	ensc-lab@sfu.ca	All Lab Staff & Teaching Instructors
General Office	ensc-labctte@sfu.ca	Lab Comm (Chair/members/student reps)
General Office	ensc-staff@ensc.sfu.ca	All ENSC Staff
Computer Systems Administrator	ensc-help@sfu.ca	Computer Support Staff
General Office	ensc-webmaster@ensc.sfu.ca	ENSC Webmaster
General Office	ensc-ucc@sfu.ca	UCC Committee
Open List -self maintained see IF YOU WISH TO JOIN AN ACS MAILLIST BELOW	ensc-student@sfu.ca	Most ENSC undergrads
General Office	ensc-dtc@sfu.ca	DTC Committee

COURSE MAILING LISTS

Allow faculty to send a message to students registered in a course. These are always on the ACS Mail Server and are special kind of ACS Maillists called Courselists. Maintenance of Courselists is the responsibility of the faculty member teaching the course; although, in some cases, where an individual faculty member has requested it be so, some courselists are temporarily owned by the Undergrad Secretary.

Courselists automatically contain the addresses of registered students.

The owner or manager of the Courselist can manually add other recipients e.g. TAs.

Example of a courselist: ensc-204@sfu.ca

The owner of the courselist is responsible for maintenance of the list.

The ownership should be passed over to the person currently teaching the course. This can be done by request to maillist@sfu.ca, or by the current owner, using this web interface or the maillist transfer command.

If the owner manually added extra members, the owner should remember to remove them.

IF YOU WISH TO JOIN AN ACS MAILLIST

If you wish to be added to an ACS Maillist/Courselist use the following procedure:

Go to https://cgi.sfu.ca/~account/management.cgi at ACS
Log in using your ACS ID and password (if you don't know your ID and password you must visit ACS with picture ID to obtain this information).
Select Manage Mailists from the menu on the left of the page.
Search for a maillist to work with. If you know the list name simply enter it in the space next to "list whose name contains" . Otherwise enter ensc in this box and press the Search button and all existing ensc mailing lists will appear.
Select the list you want to work with and click the Subscribe To List button. You will either be immediately added or you may be given the option of sending a request message to the list owner. The response from the system depends on whether the list is Closed or Open.

IF YOU WISH TO CREATE AN ACS MAILLIST

If you wish to be create an ACS Maillist/Courselist use the following procedure:

Go to https://cgi.sfu.ca/~account/management.cgi at ACS
Log in using your ACS ID and password (if you don't know your ID and password you must visit ACS with picture ID to obtain this information).
Select Manage Mailists from the menu on the left of the page.
Click on the Create Maillist button. Choose the desired list type.

FOR FULL DETAILS READ ACS Maillist How-To