Environmental Health Services Listserv

CDC’s Env-Health Listserv was created to enable environmental health professionals to share information on environmental health situations, issues, and topics.

Because the Env-Health Listserv is unmonitored, please follow these guidelines to help keep the Listserv productive and effective:

• Once a subject appears on the Listserv, conduct all subsequent ongoing communication through personal e-mail, not through the Listserv.
• Confine topics to environmental health situations and issues.
• Maintain professional decorum and language in all Listserv communications.
• Do not use the Listserv for commercial purposes.

After you send this e-mail, you will receive further instructions for completing your subscription. If you have any questions about the Listserv, please e-mail tsims@cdc.gov.

EHS Listserv Directives and Protocol

This quick reference to the Environmental Health Listserv has the instructions and commands (grouped in the following headings) to help you set up your subscription to send and receive messages to your specifications.

Message Acknowledgments
To have your entire message sent back to you whenever you send a message, send the following e-mail one time:

To have an acknowledgment of your message sent back to you, send the following e-mail one time:

To have no acknowledgments and no messages sent back to you, send the following e-mail one time [this is the default setting]:

Listserv Addresses
Once you have subscribed to the Listserv and want to e-mail messages, questions, or requests to Listserv members, send your e-mails to ENV-HEALTH-GENERAL@LISTSERV.CDC.GOV (Master List address).

Never send a command to the Master List address because your command will be distributed to all Listserv subscribers. All commands should be sent to listserv@listserv.cdc.gov (List Command address).

It is very important for Listserv subscribers to understand the difference between these two Listserv addresses. If you have questions, send us an e-mail: ehsb@cdc.gov.

Archived Messages and Past Discussions
Messages, questions, etc., sent to the Listserv are automatically archived.
To request a list of archived messages, send the following e-mail:

To request specific archived message, send the following e-mail:

To use Listerv’s database search capabilities, send the following e-mail:

Digest Version Command
If you wish to receive a digest version of postings [several postings in one message], send the following e-mail:

Individual E-mails
If you wish to reply to an individual privately, use his or her personal e-mail address. Any messages sent to the Listserv will be available to everyone subscribed.

Options
To find out what query your subscription options are, send the following e-mail:

Other Commands
To learn more details on Listserv commands, send the following e-mail:

Review Command
To learn the e-mail name and address of everyone who is subscribed to the Listserv, send the following e-mail:

To keep your e-mail name and address private (not available via the review command), send the following e-mail:

Search Command
To search a keyword or past subject discussion in the archives, send the following e-mail:

Sending Messages
To send a message to all subscribers of the Listserv, send an e-mail to env-health-general@listserv.cdc.gov (Master List address)

Never send a command to the Master List address because your command will be distributed to all Listserv subscribers.

To send a command to the Listserv, send an e-mail to listserv@listserv.cdc.gov (List Command address).