How do I create mailing lists?
John Reekie, 12 Jul 1999

There are basically two kinds of mailing list you can get on the gigascale.org server:

1. Standard lists. (See the rest of this question.)
2. Custom lists. (See this question.)

Standard lists are created by the group admin(s) on the admin page for that group. There are four types of standard list:

1. group@gigascale.eecs.berkeley.edu. A private mailing list for the people on the group. Being a member of a group automatically puts you on the list, and there is no separate way of subscribing to this list. Guests of a group do not get this email.
2. group-notify@gigascale.eecs.berkeley.edu. A private mailing list for notification of events on the group's subsite (additions to the forum, and so on). In general, if a group of people is actively working in a group this list should be turned on.
3. group-devel@gigascale.eecs.berkeley.edu. A private for members of a group that have the "Developer" flag set. This flag is supported for software groups only.
4. group-cvs@gigascale.eecs.berkeley.edu. A private mailing list for CVS notification. This is a private list that should only be turned on if you are doing software development with CVS on the GSRC servers.
5. group-interest@gigascale.eecs.berkeley.edu. The public interest list for the workgroup. By default, the list is configured to be visible to the public and to allow anyone to subscribe, although this can be changed by the admin. Typically this list is used by people who are not directly involved in your research or software project but who have expressed interest in it. Eventually, we would like to subscribe guests of a group to this list automatically.
6. group-announce@gigascale.eecs.berkeley.edu. The public announcement list for the workgroup. This list is intended to be a low-bandwidth announcement list for research results or software releases. By default it is configured as a moderated list.

Note: in all cases, the person requesting the list becomes administrator of the list. This entails a certain degree of, well, administrative overhead that you need to be prepared to deal with. If you are not, please find someone else you are working with who is. Thanks :)