To provide information to YALO consortium members and users in a relatively low-maintenance way, we have setup a number of topical mailing lists using a Majordomo server at the Ohio State University Department of Astronomy. YALO consortium members and guest investigators from the astronomical community assigned time through the NOAO TAC are invited to subscribe to these lists as their interests dictate. You can also unsubscribe yourself at any time.

Mailing Lists:

Follow these links to learn more about the various YALO email lists:

• yalo-users: General info for users
• yalo-logs: Nightly data logs
• yalo-report: Nightly observer's reports
• yalo-trouble: Trouble reports [restricted]
• yalo-queue: Nightly queue observing schedules [restricted]
• yalo-submit: Electronic Phase II observing program submissions [restricted]

Help from Majordomo

Majordomo is a public-domain automated email list server that is probably the most widely used on the internet, and it has extensive internal documentation. To find out more about the automated server and the commands it understands, send an email to majordomo@astronomy.ohio-state.edu with the one-line message:

     help

Help from Humans

If you feel your problem is such that you need to reach a human, send email to:

     list-approval@astronomy.ohio-state.edu

Noise Abatement

The lists are pretty quiet as mailings lists go, and there has not been any trouble with extraneous garbage. So far so good. However, just in case, we have implemented the following policies:

1. Subscribers whose email bounces frequently will be removed from the list.

2. Subscribers who habitually send unsolicited email to any of these lists, or do not use the Reply-To feature correctly after repeated requests, will be summarily removed from the list.

Purpose:

Distribution of general information about YALO, including telescope news, announcements of new procedures, and other information.

Intended Audience:

All YALO consortium members and guest investigators assigned time on YALO through the NOAO TAC.

Frequency:

Mailings are infrequent, roughly monthly or bi-monthly during most observing seasons.

Subscription Policy: Open

Subscribe to yalo-users by sending an email message to majordomo@astronomy.ohio-state.edu with the one-line message

    subscribe yalo-users

and no subject line. Your email address will be picked up off the mail header. Receipt of your subscription will be acknowledged by the majordomo system (or you will get an error message).

Similarly, you can unsubscribe from yalo-users at any time by sending the one-line message

    unsubscribe yalo-users

and no subject line. You should receive email acknowledgement of your removal from the yalo-users mailing list. If this fails, try using your email address explicitly (especially if it has changed since you subscribed):

    unsubscribe yalo-users bullwinkle@whatsamattau.edu

Not sure what address you are subscribed under? Then send

    who yalo-users

to see the entire list, including you, then unsubscribe with that email address.

Purpose:

Distribution of ASCII copies of the nightly data logs.

Intended Audience:

Members of the YALO consortium responsible for queue operations.

Frequency:

Daily. Data logs are generated automatically using the AutoLog program and mailed each morning at 0900 Chilean Time. Logs run from noon the previous day until noon the following day (but since there is no activity between about 0800 and 1159, we mail them at 0900 as a convenience). Logs arrive every day following a night of observing, or if no observing occurred and there are no logs, a note to that effect is mailed.

Subscription Policy: Open

Subscribe to yalo-logs by sending an email message to majordomo@astronomy.ohio-state.edu with the one-line message

    subscribe yalo-logs

and no subject line. Your email address will be picked up off the mail header. Receipt of your subscription will be acknowledged by the majordomo system (or you will get an error message).

Similarly, you can unsubscribe from yalo-logs at any time by sending the one-line message

    unsubscribe yalo-logs

and no subject line. You should receive email acknowledgement of your removal from the yalo-logs mailing list. If this fails, try using your email address explicitly (especially if it has changed since you subscribed):

    unsubscribe yalo-logs rocky@whatsamattau.edu

Not sure what address you are subscribed under? Then send

    who yalo-logs

to see the entire list, including you, then unsubscribe with that email address.

Purpose:

Distribute nightly observing reports submitted by the on-site queue observers.

Intended Audience:

YALO members reponsible for observing operations, the ANDICAM instrument scientists, and CTIO liasons.

Frequency:

Daily, except during long shutdown periods. Receipt is usually in the morning, depending on when the observers have filed the report.

Subscription Policy: Open

Subscribe to yalo-report by sending an email message to majordomo@astronomy.ohio-state.edu with the one-line message

    subscribe yalo-report

and no subject line. Your email address will be picked up off the mail header. Receipt of your subscription will be acknowledged by the majordomo system (or you will get an error message).

Similarly, you can unsubscribe from yalo-report at any time by sending the one-line message

    unsubscribe yalo-report

and no subject line. You should receive email acknowledgement of your removal from the yalo-report mailing list. If this fails, try using your email address explicitly (especially if it has changed since you subscribed):

    unsubscribe yalo-report boris@whatsamattau.edu

Not sure what address you are subscribed under? Then send

    who yalo-report

to see the entire list, including you, then unsubscribe with that email address.

Purpose:

Distribute instrument and telescope trouble reports submitted by the on-site queue observers.

Intended Audience:

YALO members reponsible for observing operations, the ANDICAM instrument scientists, and CTIO support personnel.

Frequency:

Infrequent (thankfully), only when problems arise.

Subscription Policy: Open with restrictions.

Subscriptions are subject to approval. In general, subscription will be restricted to YALO operations personnel from the partner institutions. Other requests must be forwarded in writing (email) to the list manager (yalo-trouble-approval@astronomy.ohio-state.edu).

Subscribe to yalo-trouble by sending an email message to majordomo@astronomy.ohio-state.edu with the one-line message

    subscribe yalo-trouble

and no subject line. Your email address will be picked up off the mail header. Receipt of your subscription will be acknowledged by the majordomo system (or you will get an error message).

Similarly, you can unsubscribe from yalo-trouble at any time by sending the one-line message

    unsubscribe yalo-trouble

and no subject line. You should receive email acknowledgement of your removal from the yalo-trouble mailing list. If this fails, try using your email address explicitly (especially if it has changed since you subscribed):

    unsubscribe yalo-trouble natasha@whatsamattau.edu

Not sure what address you are subscribed under? Then send

    who yalo-trouble

to see the entire list, including you, then unsubscribe with that email address.

Purpose:

Distribute nightly queue observing schedules to the on-site observers and the YALO queue-management team.

Intended Audience:

Subscriptions are restricted to YALO members reponsible for queue observing operations, the on-site observers, and the CTIO observing account.

Frequency:

Nightly.

Subscription Policy: Restricted.

Subscriptions are subject to approval.

Purpose:

Distribute electronic Phase II Observing Programs submitted by project PIs using the Phase II Web Forms.

Intended Audience:

Subscriptions are restricted to the YALO queue management team.

Frequency:

Episodic, whenever a Phase II observing program form is submitted using the webforms. Also submissions directly by "expert" YALO observers.

Subscription Policy: Restricted.

Subscriptions are subject to approval.

Updated: 2001 January 9 [rwp/osu]