Communicating with email between employees and departments is an important institutional activity and email "distribution lists" (DL’s) make group communications easy.  Here is a reminder about the proper lists, the types of messages, and who is able to send messages to what list.

!Official Faculty/Staff Announcements

This list – includes the sub-lists !Official Faculty Announcements and !Official Staff Announcements.

• Use for all official departmental and campus announcements (not !Faculty Forum and !Staff Forum -- see below).

• Only approved senders can send to these lists.
• Membership is updated nightly based on Banner employment data.
• The lists will appear in the Global Address List (GAL).
• Use a sub-list if more appropriate for your audience and message.
• Intended for SPU official business or academic announcements, communications, events, and activities.
• Carefully review and proof-read all messages (typo's, dates/times, locations).
• Refrain from multiple messages about the same event or activity (once or twice is sufficient).

!Faculty Forum

• Membership is updated nightly based on Banner employment data.
• A free-flow dialog and discussion among list members about topics of interest to the list membership. Only list members can post or receive.
• Also allows posting of more personal messages (non-SPU events of interest, ticket exchanges or resale, etc.).

!Staff Forum

• Membership is updated nightly based on Banner employment data.
• A free-flow dialog and discussion among list members about topics of interest to the list membership. Only list members can post or receive.
• Also allows posting of more personal messages (non-SPU events of interest, ticket exchanges or resale, etc.)

As with any shared resource some guidelines apply.   If you are not sure, please ask.