Department mailing list

Not exactly an alias. There is a department mailing list, which you can join by going to http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/psych-general. It is intended for announcements (and possibly comments) of general interest to faculty, staff, students (including undergraduates) and postdocs. Annoucements of talks, jobs, and experiments needing subjects are examples of what should be sent to the list. Only members can send mail to the list.

Faculty aliases

Faculty email addresses are listed in the psychology web page. But you can also simply use the last name as an alias of any psychology department faculty member, even when that is not the email address. The trick is to make sure that the mail is sent to @psych or @psych.upenn.edu. Then the last name will work.

You can set many mail clients so that they add @psych.upenn.edu to any address without a host name. If the recipient does not have an @psych address, the mail will go to @mail.sas.upenn.edu, so this will work even when you send mail to others with accounts on mail.sas.

With Mozilla or Netscape, just set your own email address in "Mail and news account settings." Then the mailer will automatically add your own host name to any message without one.

Instructions are also available for Eudora for Windows and Eudora for Mac

With Mutt, add the following two lines to your .muttrc: 

set hostname="psych"
set use_domain=yes

Group aliases

To correct an alias described in this section, write Jon Baron.

Users of mail.sas can send mail to large groups by using system aliases or mailing lists. To post to the department mailing list, upenn.psych.general, see the instructions here. The newsgroup can also be read by anyone at Penn, e.g., undergraduates with accounts on other computers. Most psychology majors probably read it too.

System mail aliases are intended for messages that are NOT public but are, rather, intended for a particular group. To use an alias, simply send mail to it as if it were an email address on mail.sas, with the @psych at the end (or @psych.upenn.edu if you are not using a Unix mailer on the server). Again, please do not use these aliases for things that you could just as easily post to upenn.psych.general, such as messages about lost books, lost dogs, looking for subjects, participants, observers, or research assistants, houses for rent, etc.

Here are the most useful aliases we have now. (A complete list is in the directory /pkg/lib/aliases/psych/ on mail.sas). Here, the alias names are in this font. Make sure to end each alias with @psych.upenn.edu or, if you are using a mailer on a Penn server, @psych.

faculty
A combination of fullprof, aprof (assistant professors), assoc (associate professors), and emeriti (listed individually).
gg
Graduate group, which consists of faculty and edm (extra-departmental members).
grad (Also grad1, .. grad4, grad5 [post 4], for years.)
Graduate students.
ograd
Graduate students working in psychology but in other graduate groups.
business
Everyone in the business office.
lab, eisenlohr
Residents of these buildings.
staff
Includes secretarial, business, jala, sherrym and hurtubis, and others.
postdoc
Postdocs.
resfac
All research professors, research investigators, research associates, and lecturers.
research
Research assistants and research coordinators.
clinical
Clinical faculty (clinfac and students (clinstu).
psych3401
Everyone in Psychology at 3401 Walnut St., including psych3401fac (all faculty), shop3401 (shop), third3401 (3d floor), and languagelab (4th floor).

Making your own alias

You can also make your own alises for groups that you send email to a lot.

Here is one way to do this in elm:
enter elm and type "a" for alias
type "n" for "new alias"
type the name you want to use, e.g., "academic" after the "name" prompt
fill in the other fields as you wish, or leave them blank in the "address" field, type (for example)
faculty, edm, emeriti, grad, postdoc, resfac, tom, dick, harry

For larger aliases, you can set up a personal alias as follows: Put the email addresses, one per line, in a file of your choice in your home directory or one of its subdirectories. The file needs to be readable by "other", and the directory where it is located needs to have the r and x permissions for "other". Then write "manager" with the name of the file.

For mutt, see mutt.htm.

Comments to baron@psych.upenn.edu