OSG Mailing Lists
To send email to an OSG mailing list, use the list name below, followed by @opensciencegrid.org.
For initial or general contact, use OSG-CONTACT.
| Subscribe to a list | Request a new mailing list | View archives |
Security
| SECURITY | Report a security incident or suspected security incident; please see Security page for more information. |
Help/Support
| ENGAGE-TEAM | For those who have an application they wish to run on the OSG. |
| GOC | Contact the Grid Operations Center; send trouble tickets here. |
| OSG-GENERAL | Community support for OSG members, administrators and users; good place to look for kindred spirits. |
| OSG-TWIKI | Send Twiki-related issues, problems and requests here. |
| OSG-WEBMASTER | Contact the webmasters. |
General communications
| OSG | General OSG discussion list |
| OSG-CONTACT | Make initial contact with OSG and/or contact leaders of the OSG |
| OSGNEWS | OSG newsletter distribution list |
| OSG-RA | OSG Registration Authority |
Grid school communications
| EOT | Grid school communications to the Education Outreach and Training (EOT) team. |
| GRID-EDU-ANNOUNCE | Distribution list for announcements of new courses, schools, workshops and training |
Working lists open to OSG participants
| OSG-INT | Discussion and coordination of integration activity |
| OSG-SITES | Site administrator discussions and exchange |
| OSG-VO-FORUM | User discussion and exchange list |
| TG-SECURITY | Security technical group; open to all OSG members, partners and collaborators for general discussions of OSG security |
| VO- ADMINS | VO and GUMS administrators discussion and exchange |
Management and activity coordination lists, in alphabetical order
| ABUSE | Used to support a security incident |
| GRID-COMM | Community list open to former, current, future grid school participants to foster continuing participation in grid activities |
| GRIDSCHOOL-CONTENT | Discussion list for content of labs, lectures, etc. Open to EOT team, students and all grid developers |
| INCIDENT-REPORT-L | Closed list for incident announcements to the incident response team |
| INCIDENT-DISCUSS-L | Closed list for incident discussions between incident response team members |
| OSG-ACCOUNTING | Accounting activity discussions |
| OSG-COUNCIL | Council discussions |
| OSG-DOCS | Documentation activity discussions |
| OSG-EB | Executive board |
| OSG-EBP | Executive board plus partners |
| OSG-EGEE-INTEROP | OSG-EGEE interoperabilty discussions |
| OSG-ET | Executive team |
| OSG-FACILITY | Facility coordinators, internal |
| OSG-INT | Discussion and coordination of integration activity |
| OSG-OPERATIONS | Operations activities |
| OSG-OPS- STATUS | Grid Status Reports |
| OSG-PI | OSG project organizational principal investigators |
| OSG-STORAGE | Storage activity discussions |
| OSG- TROUBLESHOOTING | Troubleshooting activity discussions |
| OSG-VO-FORUM | User support coordination list |
| OSG-VTB | Discussion and coordination of software release validation activity |
| OSG-WLCG-REPORTS | For communication from and with the LCG office on OSG-related reports |
| OSG-WMS | Workload management system activity discussions |
| OIM-DISCUSS | OSG information management discussions |
| RSV-DEV | Resource service validation (RSV) development |
| SECURITY-DISCUSS-L | (L for "limited distribution") OSG security team's day-day activities and internal planning. |
| TG-MIG | Monitoring and information systems technical group |
| TG- STORAGE | Storage facilities technical group (use osg-storage) |
How to Subscribe to a Mailing List
To subscribe to an OSG mailing list, send an email to listserv at fnal.gov
Leave the subject blank. In the body of the email, type the following statement:
"subscribe listname firstname lastname"
Example: subscribe OSG_DOCS John Smith
How to Request a New Mailing List
Request Mailing List Form: http://listserv.opensciencegrid.org/request-list.asp (Note: The same form is used to request mailing lists for opensciencegrid.org and fnal.gov. Choose opensciencegrid.org)
The following are steps to follow when creating a mailing list.
a. You will need to:
1. Identify the email address of the primary owner.
2. Provide a name for the mailing list.
3. Choose opensciencegrid.org as the domain.
4. Provide a brief description of the mailing list.
5. Include a welcome message for new subscribers.
6. Identify other owners of the list, if applicable.
b. Select the appropriate settings for your mailing list:
1. List type
2. Subscription options
3. Member information
4. List privacy
5. Archive list
6. Archive privacy
7. Archive rotation
c. Include any additional comments in the text area provided.
d. Submit the form.
To view a ListServ archive, go to http://listserv.fnal.gov/archives
and navigate to the archive of the list.

