Mailing lists for students

The Association of Computer Science Students maintains a number of mailing lists. This page contains information about these mailing lists and how to use them.

What are the mailing lists for?

The mailing lists you are automatically subscribed to serve as information channels for students. The ones you can subscribe to on your own are a service of certain commissions or of VIS itself.

What mailing lists are there?

The VIS maintains the following mailing lists. These are all moderated by the VIS actuary.

Important: Only use your student.ethz.ch email address to register for a mailing list. Other addresses will be rejected.

From external people (e.g. companies, private persons)

Name of the listAddress of the listDescription
External-eventsexternal-events ät lists.vis.ethz.chAnnouncements for events that are not organised by VIS
Jobs jobs ät lists.vis.ethz.chJobs announcement platform of VIS

From committees of VIS

You need to subscribe to the following lists yourself.

Name of the listAddress of the listDescription
Acm-interessenten acm-interessenten ät lists.vis.ethz.chAll people interrested in ACM ICPC
CTF ctf ät lists.vis.ethz.chAll interrested in Capture The Flag at ETH
CTF-announce ctf-announce ät lists.vis.ethz.chLow traffic email list for announcement of CTFs organised by the CTF team
VIScon-announceviscon-announce ät lists.vis.ethz.chVIScon newsletter
Protocolsprotokolle ät lists.vis.ethz.chProtocols of the VIS (board and commissions)

From VIS itself

You are automatically subscribed to the following lists if you are a VIS member.

Name of the listAddress of the listDescription
Activeactive ät lists.vis.ethz.chAll VIS members that are in a committee
All-membersall-members ät lists.vis.ethz.chAll VIS members
Events-announceevents-announce ät lists.vis.ethz.chAnnouncements of various VIS events
B1b1 ät lists.vis.ethz.chAll VIS members that participate in a course in the first bachelor year
B2b2 ät lists.vis.ethz.chAll VIS members that participate in a course in the second bachelor year

From semester speakers or university politics reps

You are automatically subscribed to the following lists.

Name of the listAddress of the listDescription
Mastermaster ät lists.vis.ethz.chAll computer science master students

Please note: Do not send emails to the above addresses if you want to contact the person responsible for information. These are already the actual mailing lists, meaning the recipients receive the mails directly. For administrative requests, always use information ät vis.ethz.ch.

FAQ

How do I subscribe to a mailing list and how do I unsubscribe?

As a student, you do not have to do anything for the automatically generated mailing lists. A few weeks after the start of the semester, after the enrolment deadline, you will be added automatically by the VIS Minister of Information to the correct list. Please do not try to add yourself to those lists.

For the other lists, you need to subscribe yourself if you want to receive mails about the topic. There are two ways to do this:

To prevent misuse and spam-related requests, every new subscription must be approved by the person responsible for information at VIS. This may take a short while. If you have not received a confirmation for more than a week, it makes sense to get in touch.

To leave a list, follow the same steps and simply replace subscribe with unsubscribe.

How do I send a mail via the mailing lists?

Please note that only VIS actives should send to these lists. To send a mail to one of the VIS mailing lists, choose the desired list from the table above and send a normal email to the corresponding address.

After approval by the VIS information officer, the mail is forwarded directly to the subscribed students.

Important guidelines:

  • No HTML mails
  • No attachments
  • No images
  • An English version must be included

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