NSTA Email List Server

Sign up for NSTA's networking list server—automated e-mail discussion groups for interactive discussions with your peers. The NSTA e-mail lists are designed to improve communication among likeminded members, offer a forum for exchanging ideas and thoughts, and provide answers to questions and challenges faced by fellow members.

NSTA members with e-mail and web access can participate in the e-mail lists. You can join a list, change your e-mail address, and unsubscribe from a list on the web. Here's how.

Subscribing to / unsubscribing from email lists

1. Browse to the list management page.
2. Log in (if you are not already logged in).
3. Click on the box(es) corresponding to the list(s) you would like to subscribe to; uncheck any you wish to unsubscribe from.
4. Click on “Save Changes.”

Changing your email address

When sending a message to the list, you must use the e-mail address in your NSTA profile. If you need to check it, or change it:

1. Browse to the member profile page.
2. If you are not logged in, log in using your email and password.
3. Modify your email address, if necessary.
4. Click on “Save.”

Sending a message

• Sending a message to the list server is very easy. It involves nothing more than creating and sending a normal email message using the e-mail account in your profile to the address of the list you'd like to start a conversation on (see list server e-mail addresses above).
• To reply to messages you receive from the list server, be sure that the send-to address appears as <listname>@list.nsta.org, where <listname> is the name of the list (e.g., physics@list.nsta.org).
• Avoid resending the entire message to which you are replying by cutting and pasting the relevant parts into your response.
• Using the reply button in your email application will automatically send your response to the entire list. To reply directly to a member of the list, forward the e-mail and copy and paste his or her email address into the “To” line.
• Identify yourself with a signature tag in all messages. Include your name, title, location, and e-mail address.

Please take a moment to acquaint yourself with these important guidelines. If you have questions, contact the list administrator. NSTA reserves the right to suspend or terminate membership on all lists for members who violate these rules.

• By joining and using NSTA's e-mail lists, you agree that you have read and will follow the rules and guidelines set for these peer discussion groups. You also agree to reserve list discussions for topics best suited to the medium.
• As with any community, there are guidelines governing behavior on the list servers. For instance, violating antitrust regulations, libeling others, selling, and marketing are not permissible.
• Do not challenge or attack others. The discussions on the lists are meant to stimulate conversation not to create contention. Let others have their say, just as you may.
• Do not forward, copy, or paste all or portions of e-mails sent off-list to you or from you to any NSTA list e-mail address.
• Do not post commercial messages. The cyberspace term for this is spamming.
• When recommending a commercial product or service in response to a request for suggestions from another listserv poster, please share your personal experience with that product or service. Recommendations of a product or service from individuals with a vested interest in the product or service will be viewed as commercial messages.
• Please do not contact people directly with products and services that you believe would help them.
• Please try not to include attachments. Attachments of any malware will result in immediate suspension of your list subscription privileges until such time as credible proof of the complete repair and "disinfection" of your system can be provided to NSTA. If you wish to share large or multiple files, please click to NSTA's Community Forums, where you can upload and download resources of any file type in groups similar in taxonomy to the listservs.
• Use caution when discussing products. Information posted on the lists is available for all to see, and comments are subject to libel, slander, and antitrust laws.
• All defamatory, abusive, profane, threatening, offensive, or illegal materials are strictly prohibited. Do not post anything in a list server message that you would not want the world to see or that you would not want anyone to know came from you.
• Please note carefully all items listed in the disclaimer and legal rules below, particularly regarding the copyright ownership of information posted to the list.
• Remember that NSTA and other e-mail list participants have the right to reproduce postings to this list server. Any message sent via the lists should not be considered private. For your own security, please do not include any confidential information.
• The NSTA E-Mail Lists are limited to use by NSTA members. Please do not post messages on behalf of a friend, student, or colleague who is not an NSTA member.
• Do not send the same message to multiple NSTA lists. You may send your message to only the most appropriate list. Cross-posting of messages is not allowed.
• Harvesting contact information of participants in list server discussions is not allowed.
• Self-promotion for commercial gain is not permitted.
• If you share a survey request, you must state the purpose of the study and who is sponsoring it, show your methods, and offer to share the results. All of this information must appear in your listserv post.
• The NSTA website (including, but not limited to, text, content, graphics, video, and audio) is protected by copyright as a collective work or compilation under U.S. copyright and other laws. Any unauthorized republication or redistribution on our listservs is strictly prohibited. Refer to https://www.nsta.org/nsta-website-terms-use for further information about copyright.