E-mail lists

Oregon Sea Grant maintains a large number of e-mail lists on OSU's mailman server; most are intended for the use of specific internal groups, but a few are open to the public.

To avoid spam and malicious mail, all Sea Grant lists are set up to receive messages only from bona fide subscribers, and all subscription requests must be approved by a list administrator. Closed lists are open only to Sea Grant employees and selected others; open lists are available to the broader public.

New lists may be established for long- or short-term purposes, and can be useful tools for organizing conferences, conducting surveys and setting up research or outreach collaboration. By putting your list on the campus server, rather than trying to run it from your own e-mail box, you can make it easier for subscribers to engage in fruitful discussions - or you can eliminate discussion entirely (for instance, if you wish to distribute an electronic newsletter or accept contest registrations but do not want responses to go to everyone on your list)..

Faculty or staff who would like to set up a new list for Sea Grant-related purposes may contact Pat Kight at Sea Grant Communications to find out more.

A note about list etiquette: If you're in the habit of using an "out of office" announcement when you leave town, that announcement could wind up going to everyone on any e-mail list you're subscribed to, which makes for cranky list members. Check your e-mail software; MS Outlook and many other programs will let you exclude specific addresses from receiving your automated messages.

Major Sea Grant e-mail lists and administrators

sg-oesg - administrator Pat Kight

Once limited to Sea Grant Extension, this list has grown to become the "everybody in Sea Grant" list. If you have information you wish to distribute to everyone in the program, send it to this list. To add new employees to the list (or remove those who leave the program), simply provide Pat with the person's name and e-mail address. Closed; contact administrator to subcribe. Closed; contact administrator to subcribe.

Extension Faculty lists - administrator: Julie Howard

Each Sea Grant Extension faculty member has his or her own e-mail list for distribution of their periodic program activity reports. List names are in the form:
sg-lastname@lists.oregonstate.edu

Each of these small individual lists is set up to funnel messages through a larger list that includes all SGE faculty, the Sea Grant management team and others within the program who have expressed interest in seeing your reports. In addition, faculty may ask Julie to add others - academic deans and department heads, for instance - to their individual lists. Closed; contact administrator to subcribe.

sg-watershed - administrator karen.buell@oregonstate.edu

A list for Extension watershed faculty and other interested parties. Closed; contact administrator to subcribe.

sg-fellowshipannouncement - administrators Melissa Feldberg and Eric Dickey

An open-subscription list for those who wish to receive announcements about Sea Grant and NOAA fellowship opportunities. Subscribe here.

sg-rfp - administrator Eric Dickey

An open-subscription list for researchers wishing to receive news about our biennial call for competitive research proposals. Subscribe here.

sg-publications - administrator Cindy Newberry

An open-subscription list for announcements of new Sea Grant publications, videos, reprints and theses. Subscribe here.

sg-aquahealth - administrator: Julie Howard

Tim Miller-Morgan had us set up this list to distribute his Ornamental Fish Health newsletter, he now has more than 460 subscribers. If you want to develop a newsletter, an e-mail list can be an effective means of distributing it at virtually no cost. Subscribe here.