Mass Email
Mass emailing has been a service to faculty and staff since 1995. The service provides a mechanism to distribute "University-related" or "education-related" email to an identified UW-Madison student audience, faculty/staff audience, or both. This initiative was undertaken at the request of both administrative and academic departments.
The mass emailing is initiated by DoIT at a cost to the customer and scheduled for delivery when it will least impact the network. A mass emailing can be done without DoIT's involvement, but we feel the service provides guidelines, is inexpensive, and minimizes network usage. Each emailing receives prior approval for "use of email addresses" from the campus data custodian (Registrar's Office for students and Budget Planning & Analysis for faculty/staff).
Some email delivered via the Mass Email Service may be informational to one recipient and irrelevant to another recipient. However, using very specific email criteria will determine if the email is appropriate for distribution. The email must fall within the mission of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and we encourage our customers to target their audience. If the information is not appropriate for delivery via the campus paper mail service, it would not be delivered via the network.
If you receive what you consider to be junk mail in your postal box, you toss it out. If you feel you have received unwanted email, you will need to delete it. If you do not appreciate the receipt of a particular email, you do have the option to reply to the sender, but provide specific reasons why you feel you should not have received their email.
Departments are disseminating information electronically today that has in the past been delivered via the campus paper mail service. The same policies used on this campus to distribute via paper labels are being used to distribute via email--only the delivery mechanism is different!
Contact Info
If you have questions or comments regarding this service, please contact:
John Nagler
Phone: 262-9196
Email: massemail@lists.wisc.edu