College mass mailing lists
Listserves have been set up for faculty, staff, each undergraduate class, and each graduate school. These lists are intended to allow communication of important information that is of interest to a particular portion of the Bryn Mawr community. Examples of this type of information are registration or graduation information, Traditions announcements, campus-wide faculty or staff meetings, and safety bulletins.

• Messages about optional campus activities for undergraduates should be sent to the "activities" list (see "Other Posting Options" below for more information).

• Most campus lists, including those listed below allow only very small attachments, for a maximum message size of 100K. 

To send a message to a particular group, email to the appropriate address from the list below.

**The list bulletins@brynmawr.edu, which was previously used for all-campus email, is administered by Public Affairs and is reserved for urgent messages such as power outages and weather emergencies; announcements of importance for the entire campus community such as experimentation policies and payroll information; and for messages from the President’s Office. All-campus can be used for any message that needs to go to all lists, but the messages must be approved by the individual list administrators (as below).

In order to prevent abuse of this service any message sent to a list must be approved by the list moderator. This does not affect the procedure for mailing a message; it will simply result in a small time delay while the moderator reviews the message. If you have questions about the status of a message, you may contact the list administrator at the address

listname-owner@brynmawr.edu (e.g. faculty-owner@brynmawr.edu).

Most of the above lists are automatically generated in order to be kept up to date.  If you are not receiving email from one of these lists and should be (or vice versa), please contact the Help Desk. 

Please note: inclusion on these lists is mandatory. If you feel that unimportant, inappropriate, or repetitive information is being posted to the list, please send your concerns to abuse@brynmawr.edu and/or the appropriate list administrtor. Individuals who abuse the lists will be given a warning after their first offense. Repeated abuse will result in loss of posting privileges.

Other posting options
We have established alternative mechanisms for communicating information to various sectors of the community:

Announcements regarding campus activities, such as lectures, performances, colloquia, parties, and other community events should be sent to activities@brynmawr.edu. This is an optional listserve that any community member may subscribe to or unsubscribe from at any time. To subscribe: go to mailman.brynmawr.edu; choose “Subscription Page”; click on 'Activities'; fill out the subscription form.

Mailing lists for campus groups, classes, etc. may be requested by contacting the Help Desk.  It is also possible to get a Blackboard organization board set up, contact the Help Desk for details.

Personal mailing lists
If you create and store your own mailing lists, please take note of the following guidelines:

Whenever you send a message to a large list (more than 10 recipients), put the addresses in the Bcc: field. This will hide the addresses from the recipients, reducing the size of the message and preventing others from getting free lists to which they might send spam email.

If you frequently send messages to a large list (more than 10 recipients), you may request your own listserve using the online request form.

If you want to send a message to an entire segment of the community, please use one of the above lists rather than building your own list. The college-run lists are updated as people move in and out of the community.

What to do about "spam" email
If you are receiving email through the college mass mailing lists that you feel is redundant, irrelevant or otherwise an abuse of the mass mailing policy, you may complain to abuse@brynmawr.edu.

If you are receiving repeated undesired mass emails from an individual who is not using the college mass mailing lists, contact that individual and ask to be removed from their contact list.  Note:  This is often not a good tactic for off-campus illegitimate spammers.  Either delete these messages, or submit them to spam@brynmawr.edu.

If you are receiving repeated mass emails from a legitimate commercial entity, it is not actually considered "spam" if you are given an option to remove yourself from further mailings. If you are given the option to remove yourself from the list, do so. However, if you are not given an option to remove yourself from the list, or if you request removal and continue to receive mailings, you should contact the commercial entity directly and request removal. If this is not effective, you may then complain to abuse@brynmawr.edu. If you are unsure of which type of message a particular piece of mail constitutes, submit your question and the message to spam@brynmawr.edu.

If you have any questions about this policy, please contact the Help Desk at x7440 or help@brynmawr.edu.