Subscribing to 142 or 143 Mailing Lists

You should subscribe to three different mailing lists: cse142-announce (or cse143-announce, as apropriate), the list for your quiz section (cse14n-section-xx where xx is replaced with your lower-case quiz section ID), and the mailing list for your compiler and/or kind of computer. You can do this in a single email if you carefully follow the instructions below.

To subscribe to a mailing list, send e-mail to majordomo@cs.washington.edu; with the line

in the message's body. Leave the subject line blank. You can put more than one subscribe in an email, so you can subscribe to all three lists with a single message.

For example, to subscribe to the course's announcement mailing list, the section AA mailing list, and the list for MSVC users, send mail to majordomo@cs.washington.edu with the following three lines (and nothing else) in it:

Students using Hotmail, Yahoo, or many other free email accounts often experience considerable difficulty with these tasks. It is often necessary to add the word end on a seperate line after your last subscribe command: subscribe cse142-announce
subscribe cse142-section-aa
subscribe cse142-msvc
end

You should seriously consider using your UW account for all course work.

Remember:

• Substitute your own quiz section for "aa" in "cse142-section-aa".
• Don't forget the dash between "cse142" and "announce".

Within minutes (occassionally hours), you should receive a response confirming your addition to the list. If you do not get this confirmation or if you get an error, see the section on common problems below.