If you forgot the password to a mailing list that you manage and need to reset the password please send an email to csstaff@cs.princeton.edu with the list name.
If you are the mailing list manager and have a problem or question please refer to the documentation located here. For users of a mailing list that have a problem or a question please refer to the documentation located here.
The mailing list package we use is Mailman.
This CS Guide page does not attempt to duplicate the Mailman documentation. Rather, it is a local guide designed to address frequently (or infrequently) asked questions regarding mailing list administration and configuration.
To request a new list, please fill out the mailing list request form located in the "Request Forms" box to the left.
To remove all users and messages from an existing mailing list (e.g., for a course mailing list at the beginning of a semester), please send an email message to csstaff@cs.princeton.edu with your request.
As a service to people in the department with equipment on battery backup, we have created a read-only mailing list called "power" for notifications of actual (as opposed to planned) power events in the CS Building. These include power failure and power restoration as well as On-/Off-Battery events for the main UPS in room 218, the UPS in 002 that powers some 002 equipment, and the Friend Center UPS that powers FC-010 as well as CS 002.
A number of CS electronic mailing lists exist for official University communications. Mass electronic mailings to any one of these lists is permitted only by authority of appropriate owner of each individual list. You can find a complete listing of all the public mailing lists at: https://lists.cs.princeton.edu/mailman/listinfo.
For questions that are outside of the scope of the department computing infrastructure, you might see if there is an appropriate department mailing list where you can post your question (e.g., the linux-users mailing list for a Linux-related question). The Joining a Mailing List page has more information. Of course, questions posted to such mailing lists will not generally be answered by members of CS Staff but by members of the particular mailing list.
