There are several email lists for graduate students and members of the Graduate Student Assembly. Depending on their desired level of participation, students would normally select one list. Elected members of the Graduate Student assembly would select one or two lists depending on their interest in campus wide. Available lists are listed below.

Discussion Etiquette

The gsa-talk list below is intended to be used for discussion of issues of concern to graduate students at the University of Texas at Austin. It may be as active or as inactive as students wish to make it. Any topic may discussed if it is of common interest. Your comments emailed to the list should be professional and polite and deal with the topic bring discussed rather than attacking individual contributors or other persons. To show respect for your colleagues, your emails should never contain profanity or abusive language. Although this list is limited to graduate students at UT, you should keep in mind that any message passed through the Internet may turn up years later in places most unexpected. Accordingly, you should never send items which would embarrass you later if posted on the front page of a newspaper when you are running for senator. To maintain the professional character of the discussion, GSA officers reserve the right to limit or remove comments which would reflect negatively on GSA or would criticize the race, religion, national origin, character, legitimacy, or ancestry of other graduate student participants.

Like many email lists, when you reply to an email, the reply does not merely go to the individual who has sent the original message but to the entire list. Often list subscribers mistakenly send reply messages of a more personal nature to the entire list. If you wish to reply to an individual has posted to the list, please be sure to send your reply to that person and not to the entire list. Similarly, if you find that your discussion is becoming narrowly focused with interest of only two or three students, you might consider, as a courtesy to others on the list to continue your discussion outside the list.

Graduate Student Discussion List
(GSA-talk)

This is a general discussion list for graduate students sponsored by GSA. Subscribers will receive copies of GSA general announcements and emails from other graduate students interested in discussing topics of interest to the graduate community. Subscribers may post to this list as well. You may also read previously posted emails and see who else has subscribed to the list and what schools they are from.

If you decide that you are not interested in the topics being discussed you can unsubscribe and subscribe later when the discussion on that topic has been exhausted. You may then look at the messages which have previously been posted. As a graduate student you may subscribe and unsubscribe to the list as your school workload permits as many times as you like.

If you notice that you have not been receiving emails messages from the list, you may try review the list of subscribers. If your name is still on the list, then don't worry, there probably has not been any emails sent to the list. But if the list server tells you that only subscribers can review this list, then you most likely no longer a subscriber. This may have happened because messages addressed to you were rejected because your email box became full or some other reason. If your emails are rejected, your name and address will be deleted from the list. You will then have to resubscribe.

To subscribe to this list, send an email to listproc@lists.cc.utexas.edu. In the body of the list type subscribe gsa-talk your first name, your last name, your graduate program, and the year in which you expect to graduate. For example:
subscribe gsa-talk Eric Opiela, Law 03

To unsubscribe to this list, send an email to listproc@lists.cc.utexas.edu. In the body of the list type unsubscribe gsa-talk

To post to this list send your email to gsa-talk@lists.cc.utexas.edu. You must be a subscriber to post to this list.

To look at emails which have previously been posted, send an email to listproc@lists.cc.utexas.edu. In the body of the list type index gsa-talk and you will receive an email with an index of previous posted emails.

Each line of the email will show you the log file's name, its size, and a brief comment. You can then get any logs with the "get" request. For example, if you wish to get the email at log9611, type:
get gsa-talk log9611

Here we assume log9611 is the name of the log. Log names may not necessarily be uniform.

To review the names of other subscribers, send an email to listproc@lists.cc.utexas.edu. In the body of the list type recipients gsa-talk and you will receive a message from the list processor in a few minutes listing the current subscribers on the list.

Graduate Student Announcement List
(gsa-announce)

This is a list for those graduate students who wish to receive announcement emails on important topics of interest to graduate students. Such topics might be changes or proposed changes in UT policy affecting graduate students, announcements of GSA regular and special meetings, formation of GSA task groups to propose changes to university policy or environment and calls for graduate student representatives to university policy committees. Subscribers will receive copies of GSA general announcements but not the related discussion.

As a graduate student you may subscribe and unsubscribe to the list as your school workload permits as an alternative to GSA-talk But you do not need to subscribe to GSA-announce in addition to GSA-talk Since all GSA-announce emails go to GSA-talk, if you subscribe to both lists, you will receive each announcement twice.

Since GSA announcements are archived in GSA-talk, no separate archive for GSA-announce is maintained. If you wish to read past announcements, please follow the instructions for reading past emails in GSA-talk above.

To keep the traffic volume on this list low, GSA officers must approve any post to this list. If you think some item is important enough to send to the subscribing graduate community as an announcement, you may send an email to the list. However, GSA officers may decide to post your message to the discussion list instead of the announcement list. Alternately, you may send your email directly to GSA-talk

For the privacy of those graduate students who want to receive GSA announcements anonymously, you may not view the list of subscribers.

To subscribe to this list, send an email to listproc@lists.cc.utexas.edu. In the body of the list type subscribe gsa-announce your first name, your last name, your graduate program, and the year in which you expect to graduate. For example:
subscribe ga-announce Eric Opiela, Law 03

To unsubscribe to this list, send an email to listproc@lists.cc.utexas.edu. In the body of the list type unsubscribe gsa-announce

GSA Member Discussion List
(gsa-reps)

This is a for members of the Graduate Student Assembly. GSA member subscribers will receive copies of GSA member announcements and emails from other GSA members interested in discussing topics of interest to the GSA. Subscribers may review to this list see who else has subscribed to the list and what schools they are from.

No archives of this list are maintained.

To subscribe to this list, send an email to listproc@lists.cc.utexas.edu. In the body of the list type subscribe gsa-reps your first name, your last name, your graduate program, and the year in which you expect to graduate. For example:
subscribe gsa-reps Eric Opiela Law 03

To post to this list send your email to gsa-reps@lists.cc.utexas.edu.

To review the names of other subscribers, send an email to listproc@lists.cc.utexas.edu. In the body of the list type recipients GSA-reps and you will receive a message from the list processor in a few minutes listing the current subscribers on the list.

To unsubscribe to this list, send an email to listproc@lists.cc.utexas.edu. In the body of the list type unsubscribe gsa-reps

GSA Executive Committee Discussion List
(gsa-excom)

This is a list for members of the Graduate Student Assembly Executive Committee. Specific instructions on this list are provided directly to committee members.

More Information

Additional and more detailed information about email lists on listserv is available from: http://lists.cc.utexas.edu/