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  • gracs UNIX group: 2004(gracs) – add GRACS Committee Members
  • gracs Web pages folder: /u/www/users/gracs – chown to main person maintaining Web content
  • GRACS Wiki (this!)
  • Mailing lists:
  • gracs@cs is an alias for the current GRACS reps. It's membership is in /u/www/users/gracs/gracs.txt
  • gracs-braintrust@cs is an alias for the former GRACS reps. It's membership is in /u/www/users/gracs/gracs-braintrust.txt
  • csgrad@utlists.utexas.edu is the unofficial grad list. Anyone can subscribe or unsubscribe, and anyone can send to it, but it's moderated by gracs@cs. QUESTION: Who adds new students?
  • grad@cs is the department's official list, which is maintained by UDB, that only members of the prof, dept, or gracs UNIX groups can send to
  • Sending mail:
  • I propose we use the grad@cs list very few times per semester to announce formal GRACS business, like:
    • A reminder of GRACS existence/purpose at the start of the year
    • Nominations opening
    • Election instructions
    • Election results
  • Other announcements, about events and so forth, would go to csgrad@utlists.
  • Also, remember:
    • Use plain text message encoding.
    • For most messages, add a “Reply-To: gracs@cs.utexas.edu” header.
    • Remind people to subscribe to csgrad@utlists on the “start of the year” message.
    • Reming people how to edit their utlists settings in the csgrad@utlists messages.
  • To send to csgrad@utlists with a From of gracs@cs:
    • Login as gracs@cs.utexas.edu .
    • Paste your message subject and text into the form and press Send.
    • Reply to CONFIRM e-mail in your inbox from an account subscribed to csgrad@utlists.
    • Reply to DISTRIBUTE e-mail (yes, a second e-mail) in your inbox.
  • Forward any “after you graduate”-type job announcements to Nancy Hatchett in OEA: nph@cs.utexas.edu . She'll tell them to join FoCS (Friends of Computer Science) or post via career services.
  • Jobs that are compatible with being an enrolled grad student, like project help, summer jobs, etc., are OK for us to distribute if we want to. (per Patti 23 Mar 2010)
  • GRACS Google Calendar (utgracs@gmail)

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