Each department in the School of Information Sciences has an electronic mailing list to which all students are recommended to subscribe. Class updates, departmental announcements, and job postings are some of the types of information that are transmitted to the student body via these mailing lists. Listed below are the graduate-level mailing lists and instructions for subscribing to whichever of the lists are most appropriate to your academic situation.

To subscribe to the appropriate departmental mailing list:

1. Request membership to the mailing list. To do this, send an email to mailinglist-request@mail.sis.pitt.edu. For example, if you are a Library and Information Sciences graduate student, you will send a request email to mlis-l-request@mail.sis.pitt.edu.
2. In the body of the message, type "subscribe" (no quotes). Do not type anything else.
3. Do not type anything in the subject of the email message.
4. You will receive a response to the first message asking you to authenticate that you do, in fact, want to subscribe to the mailing list. This second message begins "Someone (possibly you) has requested that your email address be added to or deleted from the mailing list "mailinglist-l@mail.sis.pitt.edu". It is a security measure that ensures that no one but you can subscribe you to the mailing list.
5. You will need to reply to this mail. Carefully follow the directions within the email to ensure that you response properly. Basically, you will need to copy exactly the indented line that begins "auth" from that email into the message section of a new, blank email message.
6. This new message should be addressed to Majordomo@mail.sis.pitt.edu.
7. Finally, you will receive a confirmation response that explains how to use the mailing list. When you have received this message, you are officially subscribe to the list.

To unsubscribe to the appropriate departmental mailing list:

Send an email to mailinglist-request@mail.sis.pitt.edu (the same email address which you subscribed to) and type "unsubscribe" in the body of the message. Note: you have to unsubscribe from the same email address which you subscribed from.

Additionally, mailing list may be maintained for specific courses (e.g., lis2001-l@mail.sis.pitt.edu). The subscription directions outlined above can be used for these class-related mailing lists as well.