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Mailing Lists

Mailing lists derived from class membership of a course

Documented in detail on the CSE FAQ Taggi Virtual Aliases

COMP9999_student-list@cse.unsw.edu.au generated from COMP9999_student UDB class
- Student class memberships starts two weeks before term and extend two weeks into the next term.
- During the period of change, avoid using COMP9999_student-list.
- Instead add t0, t1, t2, t3 to the course code to email students of a particular term.
  To see who is on the mailing list,
- acc COMP9999t1_student/
- members COMP9999t1_student
COMP9999_tutor-list@cse.unsw.edu.au
- Tutor class memberships expires end of Week 2 of the next term.
COMP9999-list@cse.unsw.edu.au includes tutors, lecturers, supervisors

members -?
Usage: members [options] <group>
    -z, --zid                        Sort by zid
    -u, --show-username              Show primary username
    -e, --show-email                 Show UNSW email
    -l, --list                       List matching groups
    -?, --help                       Show this help message

Mailing lists derived from enrolment files

Documented in detail on the CSE FAQ Taggi Enrol Pageboy

Self maintained Mailing lists

Documented in detail on the CSE FAQ Taggi Mlalias or type on the commandline

% man mlalias

Examples

To create a tutor mailing list,

% ssh cs1911@localhost
% mlalias -C cs1911.12s2.tutors -c "12s2 COMP1911 tutors" (DEPRECATED - options must come after the mlalias name)
% mlalias cs1911.12s2.tutors -C -c "12s2 COMP1911 tutors"
% mlalias cs1911.12s2.tutors -a meicheng meichengwhale@gmail.com

To create a student mailing list,

mlalias cs1911.12s2.students -C \
 -s `grep COMP1911 ~sms/sturec/data/12s2_COMP | cut -f2 -d'|' | sed -e 's/^/z/' | tr '\n' ','`

Remember to remove the mailing lists so as not to clog up the database.

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  Comment:    (!) Due to 3+ terms, student memberships extend to end of week 2 of next term and
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- * `COMP9999_student-list` generated from `COMP9999_student` UDB class
 * `COMP9999_tutor-list` generated from `COMP9999_tutor` UDB class
 * `COMP9999-list` generated from `COMP9999` UDB class, includes tutors, lecturers, supervisors
+ * --(COMP9999_student-list@cse.unsw.edu.au generated from COMP9999_student UDB class)--
   (!) Student class memberships starts two weeks before term and extend two weeks into the next term.
   * During the period of change, avoid using COMP9999_student-list.
   * Instead add t0, t1, t2, t3 to the course code to email students of a particular term.
     .~+COMP9999t1_student-list@cse.unsw.edu.au+~
     .~+COMP9999t2_student-list@cse.unsw.edu.au+~
     .~+COMP9999t3_student-list@cse.unsw.edu.au+~
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-To see who is on the mailing list,
 . `% mlalias COMP9999_student-list`
 . `% acc COMP9999_student/`
+   To see who is on the mailing list,
   . acc COMP9999t1_student/
   . members COMP9999t1_student
 * `COMP9999_tutor-list@cse.unsw.edu.au`
   (!) Tutor class memberships expires end of Week 2 of the next term.
 * `COMP9999-list@cse.unsw.edu.au` includes tutors, lecturers, supervisors
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-(!) Too early before the current session, the mailing list could include last session's students. Too late after the current session, the students could be dropped from the list.
+{{{
members -?
Usage: members [options] <group>
    -z, --zid                        Sort by zid
    -u, --show-username              Show primary username
    -e, --show-email                 Show UNSW email
    -l, --list                       List matching groups
    -?, --help                       Show this help message
}}}
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-Documented in detail on the CSE FAQ Taggi [[http://taggi.cse.unsw.edu.au/FAQ/Mlalias/ | Mlalias ]]
+Documented in detail on the CSE FAQ Taggi [[http://taggi.cse.unsw.edu.au/FAQ/Mlalias/ | Mlalias ]] or type on the commandline

 . `% man mlalias`
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-% mlalias -C cs1911.12s2.tutors -c "12s2 COMP1911 tutors"
+% mlalias -C cs1911.12s2.tutors -c "12s2 COMP1911 tutors" (DEPRECATED - options must come after the mlalias name)
% mlalias cs1911.12s2.tutors -C -c "12s2 COMP1911 tutors"
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-mlalias cs1911.12s2.students -s `grep COMP1911 ~sms/sturec/data/12s2_COMP | cut -f2 -d'|' | priv upi -u | cut -f2 -d' '
+mlalias cs1911.12s2.students -C \
 -s `grep COMP1911 ~sms/sturec/data/12s2_COMP | cut -f2 -d'|' | sed -e 's/^/z/' | tr '\n' ','`
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+(!) Remember to remove the mailing lists so as not to clog up the database.