ANU Philosophy announcements: Welcome and how to join

[Colin Klein]

Hi everyone, 

If you’re receiving this via email, you’ve successfully subscribed to ANU Philosophy Announcements. Hooray! This will be pinned as a placeholder for the web interface. 

If you are reading this on the web, you can also join the group. To do so, you must have an email address associated with a google account. Gmail addresses will work. Many email addresses have already been associated with a google account. 

If you have a google-associated email address, you can either 

(a) sign in, and then click the “join group” button on this page, or 

(b) send an email to:

     anu-philosop...@googlegroups.com 

With the subject “Subscribe”. You will get an email back. Simply hit reply, and send the reply email. This should sign you up. 

If you do not have a google-associated email address, you can make a gmail account or associate an existing email with google by going here: 

https://accounts.google.com/signup

Enter your info on the first two pages. On the third page, when it says "Choose your Gmail address”, click “Use your existing email”. This will send some confirmations, and then create a google account for you. You can then sign on with using your email address. Don’t worry, it won’t have any effect on your ordinary email provider (think of it as like using your email address to sign up for a website). 

Contrary to instructions in previous emails, please do not email me to be added. If you have a google-associated email you can add yourself. If you don’t, it is not possible for me to add you. 

If you don’t have a google-associated email address, and don’t want to get one, there is no way to join the mailing list. However, you can access all of the messages sent to the list simply by going to the web interface at: 

https://groups.google.com/g/anu-philosophy

All past messages should be preserved there. 

best, 

Colin Klein 

PS “Why all the hassle?” you might reasonably ask. Simple mailing lists are an old and dying institution on the modern internet. ANU plans to decommission our mailing list servers sometime in 2025. Their replacement would require external folks to register with Microsoft, does not provide a public web interface, and doesn’t allow people to sign up automatically.  As far as I can tell, google groups is the last free, public mailing list service that can run more or less automatically. Fingers crossed this will last a while.