Technical Note - Mailing Lists

Summary

ECS maintains many different mailing lists to allow staff, students and others to easily communicate with each other. This page lists all the mailing lists we administer.

Details

Emailing staff and students

Sending a message To: any of these addresses will send copies of your message to the appropriate group of people. All addresses are MailingListName@ecs.vuw.ac.nz

• staff - all school staff
  • academic - all academic staff
  • tech-staff - The ECS programmers and technicians
  • admin-staff - The ECS administrative staff
• graduates - all graduate students
• others - Other people with accounts on the ECS system
• announce - A convenience list that sends mail to staff, graduates and others

The others list does not necessarily include all those in the UNIX group others. It is a subset of people for whom group announcements may be appropriate (such as school visitors).

Class lists

Class lists are setup on request, with the format [ClassCode]-class and will contain all students, tutors and staff associated with the course. Staff members can see who is on a mailing list by browsing the Mailing List Attributes page.

Public lists

ECS also hosts public lists, which can be found at our mailman page.

Other useful addresses

• bugs - For reporting problems with ECS systems.
• jobs - For requesting a task to be performed on the ECS systems, that isn't a bug.
• printers - For reporting problems with printers (such as paper jams, poor print quality and such)