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Revision as of 13:45, 20 January 2008

These CSEE mailing list are for departmental-use only. You must be a registered user to be able to post to these lists. If the list heirarchy is thought of as a tree, subscribers are members of the leaf nodes.

  • CSEE : All CSEE faculty, staff, grauated students and undergraduate students
    • CSEE-FACULTY : All CSEE faculty
      • CSEE-FACULTY-TT : Tenured or tenure-track faculty
      • CSEE-FACULTY-LECTURER : Full time lecturers and instructors
      • CSEE-FACULTY-PT : Part-time teaching faculty and instructors
      • CSEE-FACULTY-RESEARCH : Research faculty
      • CSEE-FACULTY-ADJUNCT : Adjunct faculty
    • CSEE-STAFF : All CSEE staff
    • CSEE-STUDENT : All CSEE students
      • CSEE-UNDERGRAD : All CSEE undergraduates
        • CSEE-UNDERGRAD-CS : Undergraduates majoring in Computer Science
        • CSEE-UNDERGRAD-CE : Undergraduates majoring in Computer Engineering
      • CSEE-GRAD : All CSEE graduate students
        • CSEE-GRAD-CS : CSEE graduate students in the CS program
        • CSEE-GRAD-CE : CSEE graduate students in the CE program
        • CSEE-GRAD-EE : CSEE graduate students in the EE program

Notes

  • You can add and remove yourself from these lists by the mechanism described below. Notify CSEE-LISTMASTER AT CSEE DOT UMBC DOT EDU of any problems you can't resolve.
  • Indentation shows inclusion, such as CSEE-GRAD, is defined as the union of CSEE-GRAD-CS, CSEE-GRAD-CE, and CSEE-GRAD-EE. So, if you are a graduate student in the CS program, you have been explicitly subscribed to CSEE-GRAD-CS and will by implicitly included in the lists CSEE-STUDENT and CSEE. One can not subscribe to upper level lists.
  • Lists (i.e. csee-undergrad-cs) have restictions on who is allowed to send mail through them (primarily because of their large size). Mail from unauthorized senders will be forwarded to the list administrator for approval.
  • If you want to send mail to all CSEE graduate students, address it to CSEE-GRAD AT CS DOT UMBC DOT EDU .

Subscribing to a Mailing List

  • Go to the URL www.cs.umbc.edu/mailman/listinfo/<listname> where <listname> is the name of the list.
  • Scroll down to the Subscribe to <listname> section
  • Enter your email address and name
  • Create a password, make sure it is not an important password because it will be emailed in clear text. If you are signing up with your umbc email address, you will be able to login to the mailing list using this password or your umbc password.
  • Choose whether you want to receive mail in a digest or not and then click the Subscribe button.
  • A confirmation email will sent to you. If you do not get this email please check your spam filter settings to allow emails from cs.umbc.edu.
  • Open the confirmation email and click on the link inside.
  • On this page you can verify your name, digest settings, and preferred language.
  • Click on the Subscribe to list button to complete your subscription!

Unsubscribe from a Mailing List

  • Go to the URL www.cs.umbc.edu/mailman/listinfo/<listname> where <listname> is the name of the list.
  • Scroll down to the <listname> Subscribers section
  • Enter your email address in the last box and then click on the Unsubscribe or edit options button.
  • On the next page, Go to the Unsubscribe section and click on the Unsubscribe button.
  • You will be sent a confirmation email. Click on the link inside the email to complete your ubsubscription.

Retreive list password - Note: Those who are subscribed with any umbc.edu email address can use their myUMBC password.

  • Go to the URL www.cs.umbc.edu/mailman/listinfo/<listname> where <listname> is the name of the list.
  • Scroll down to the <listname> Subscribers section
  • Enter your email address in the last box and then click on the Unsubscribe or edit options button.
  • On the next page, Go to the Password reminder section and click on Remind.
  • You will be sent an email with your password.

View a list of Members of a Mailing List

  • Go to the URL www.cs.umbc.edu/mailman/listinfo/<listname> where <listname> is the name of the list.
  • Scroll down to the <listname> Subscribers section
  • Enter your email address and password in the first 2 boxes and then click on the Visit Subscriber List box.

Change Mailing List options and global options

  • Go to the URL www.cs.umbc.edu/mailman/listinfo/<listname> where <listname> is the name of the list.
  • Scroll down to the <listname> Subscribers section
  • Enter your email address in the last box and then click on the Unsubscribe or edit options button.
  • On the next page you will be prompted for your password, enter it and click on Log in
  • On this page you can change your email address and/or your password. You can also have your password emailed to you in case you have forgotten it.
  • You can also change the subscription options for the mailing list at the bottom of the page. Select the options you want and click the submit button at the very bottom of the page.

Attention Graduate Students:

The CSEE Department maintains a number of electronic mailing lists. These are used to disseminate official announcements as well as to support various research groups. As a graduate student, it is your responsibility to subscribe to the mailing list that is revelant to your major: CSEE-GRAD-CS, CSEE-GRAD-CE or CSEE-GRAD-EE. There is also a list CSEE-GRAD, but it is defined as the union of the other lists, but individuals can not subscribe to it.