Use of E-Mail Addresses

E-mail is an increasingly important media for direct contact with students, and is appreciated by most recipients. But people don't like to receive junk mail, even e-mail. And there are some potential technical problems inherent in sending very large mass mailings.

Departments are encouraged to use a website to provide up-to-date information on programs and services. You might selectively target groups of students who may benefit from your programs, services, or activities, and send them an e-mail message that refers them to your homepage for up-to-date information.

Please follow these recommendations when using the Student Data Warehouse e-mail addresses to do mass mailings to groups of students. The guidelines will help limit unwanted electronic mail and avoid possible system overload in handling extremely large mass mailings.

Note: In the event of a computer problem or other error causing multiple message delivery, contact Jim Bohle at University Computing (x6-1706; email jbohle@oregon.uoregon.edu) and send a message to the recipients of the messages explaining that there were technical problems and apologizing for the inconvenience.