May 2004

Changes to Aliases!

The Computer Policy Council has been studying problems with the mass E-mail aliases for some time. They have passed down the following policy changes to help make our E-mail system a more effective means of disseminating information and less stressful to use.

Staff and Faculty Aliases
The "-announcement" aliases are to be replaced by "staff-official" and "faculty-official." As the name implies, you will receive the official voice of the campus over these channels - messages from the President, Campus Safety, Emergency Preparedness and the like.

"Staff" and "Faculty" are replaced by "staff-talk" and "faculty-talk." These lists are only for discussion among your peers. You may choose to opt-out or get a digest. List members can post directly to the alias without any sort of delay, but those outside the list can not.

Messages not to send to students, faculty-* and staff-*

• Reminders. An event gets one announcement.
  
• Anything which has another list available. However, you can send reminders to the mainlists about these other lists.

Those Other Lists
The following existing or new lists will carry information which may be of interest to you. If so, you will want to make sure you sign up at http://home.eckerd.edu/majordomo

• cps-events: moderated by the Office of Communications (OoC); CPS events only. New users are added to list by default. No opting-out allowed for students.
  
• campus-events: moderated by the OoC - any event being advertised to campus, such as the monthly calendar, events such as red cross, etc. Users added by default, can opt out or receive as digest.
  
• clubs: announcements for clubs and events. Students are added by default, can opt-out or receive as digest.
  
• sportsnews: Scores and updates from athletics
  
• careerresourcesupdate: Jobs, Job Fairs, Internships, and other information from Career Resources