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New Zotmail System

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ZotmailAdministrative Policies and Records, working with OIT, has developed and released a new edition of Zotmail, the campus system for sending email announcements to faculty and staff.

Features

Among the many features of the new Zotmail system are an easy-to-use interface (senders can more easily create and customize messages; everyone else can more easily control which Zotmail messages they receive) and a searchable archive for looking up past Zotmail releases.

Zotmail Lists

All employees are added to the Zotmail system as soon as their payroll records are created and the employee has selected an email service (“delivery point”).  Employees are automatically enrolled in a core set of official communications channels related to their affiliation (e.g., faculty, staff, main campus, School of Medicine), lists for Schools and other campus units, and certain other informative lists including:

  • Staff Assembly
  • UCI Brief
  • UCI in the News
  • UC Irvine Magazine

Employees can then use the Zotmail system to modify the lists they receive messages from.  There are certain lists (emergency communications and mandatory information relating to employment at the university) from which you cannot unsubscribe.

Mailman Lists

Many of the lists that were part of the old Zotmail system are now supported by the Mailman service, which is better suited to special-interest forums such as:

For more information on Zotmail and campus mailing lists, contact oit@uci.edu or call x42222.

Mailing List Service

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A mailing list distributes electronic mail to a list of “subscribers.” This service provides a convenient means to exchange ideas and information among people with a common interest.

Mailing lists can be configured according to several distribution models, defining who may send messages and under what circumstances. Mailing lists can also store all messages associated with their lists in archives, and allow readers to search these archives.

Each list has a “list manager” who, depending on the needs of the list, controls the subscriber list, approves messages for distribution, and adjusts the characteristics of the list. Mailing lists at UCI are meant for instruction, research, and administration and must be sponsored by a faculty or staff member.

NACS supports mailing list software called “Mailman.” Mailman gives each mailing list a unique web page and allows people to subscribe, un-subscribe, and change their account options over the Web. Mailman also enables list managers to control a list entirely over the Web.

Most mailing lists are open to the entire campus community. The main Mailman page shows the lists available at UCI. By clicking on the name of a list, you can find out more about it, as well as subscribe to or unsubscribe from the list. You should join a mailing list if you would like to communicate with others on campus or receive announcements about services that interest you. To learn about current mailing lists, visit:http://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/listinfo

A detailed handout for mailing list administrators is available for download in PDF format.http://www.nacs.uci.edu/computing/maillists/mailman.pdf

New Mailing List Software

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Many UCI communities make use of electronic discussion lists to send announcements and to foster communication among group members. Such communications are facilitated by “list management software,” such as the Listserv service NACS has provided to the campus for many years. This software tracks and controls who subscribes to which lists, who can post to which lists, and other administrative tasks.

NACS is pleased to introduce a new list management package called Mailman that offers significant improvements and simplifications compared with Listserv. Mailman provides a web interface to each mailing list, including facilities for list managers to administer lists and for individuals to subscribe, unsubscribe, or adjust their subscriptions (e.g., choose delivery options). Mailman also allows access to list archives to be limited to subscribers and provides many other useful features not present in Listserv.

Your subscription to NACS News, which has long been a Listserv list, has been automatically transferred to the new Mailman list. You can manage your subscription to this and other lists NACS sponsors at http://www.nacs.uci.edu/org/nacslists.html

Please see http://www.nacs.uci.edu/computing/maillists/ if you manage a Listserv mailing list that you would like to convert to Mailman, if you would like to start a new mailing list, or if you would simply like to know more about Mailman.

Making Lists for UCI Computer Users

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NACS operates UCI’s “LISTSERV” electronic mailing list server that hosts about 400 electronic mailing lists. NACS and other campus parties maintain a number of lists on that server for the benefit computer users and supporters. Those lists are summarized below:

 

Lists for Discussions and Announcements:  
Personal computing:  
Apple Macintosh: uci-mac
IBM’s OS/2 uci-os2
Microsoft Windows 95: uci-win95
Microsoft Windows NT: uci-winnt
Novell networks: uci-novell
cc:mail issues: uci-ccmail
Linux: uci-linux
The World Wide Web: uci-www
UCI Computing Support: ucicscg
   
Lists Just for Announcements:  
Commercial Unix systems:  
Digital Equipment Corp: uci-dec
Silicon Graphics, Inc: uci-sgi
Sun: uci-sun
Scheduled UCI network outages: uci-ops-net
UCI electricity/cooling outages: outages

 

 

For a complete list of UCI mailing lists, send a message to LISTSERV@UCI.EDU with just the word “lists” (no quotes) as its content. To join a mailing list, send a message to LISTSERV@UCI.EDU with “subscribe LISTNAME YOUR-NAME” as its content. For example,

“subscribe uci-mac John Smith”.

Many lists are archived in UCI’s gopher and/or in local USENET Newsgroups.