E-Mail Mailing Lists

An e-mail mailing list (or alias) will allow you to send a message to a number of recipients using only a single e-mail address. For example, if you address a message to alias_name@stolaf.edu, it will be received by every member of the mailing list. Some mailing lists are automatically generated from administrative data; others are created and maintained by individual users.

General
Academic Programs and Courses
Faculties and Departments
Administrative
User-created

General Mailing Lists

Please refer to the policies governing the use of these mailing lists.

stolaf-extra

This list can be used for announcing issues not directly related to St. Olaf such as items for sale, houses for rent, wanted-to-buy announcements, non-profit Northfield events, etc. This list should not be used for commercial ventures.

Subscribing: To subscribe to the stolaf-extra mailing list, follow these steps:

Login to Account Services
In the "Mailing Lists" section, look for the note about your stolaf-extra status
Click on the "Add me" link

Unsubscribing: To unsubscribe from the stolaf-extra mailing list, follow these steps:

Login to Account Services
In the "Mailing Lists" section, look for the note about your stolaf-extra status
Click on the "Remove me" link

stolaf-faculty

This list will reach all St. Olaf faculty and should be used for college business only. Messages not dealing with college business should be directed to stolaf-extra.

stolaf-staff

This list will reach all St. Olaf staff and should be used for college business only. Messages not dealing with college business should be directed to stolaf-extra.

stolaf-emeriti

This list will reach all St. Olaf faculty emeriti and retired staff and should be used for college business only. Messages not dealing with college business should be directed to stolaf-extra.

stolaf-all

This list will reach all St. Olaf faculty, staff, emeriti, and visiting scholars and should be used for college business only. Messages not dealing with college business should be directed to stolaf-extra.

stolaf-students

This reaches all St. Olaf students but is restricted to the following uses:

Registrar's Office (for sending academic notices to the entire student body)
The Dean of Students
Security Office (for notifying students of crime reports)

Messages sent to stolaf-students that do not fit these guidelines will eventually and silently be deleted.

Academic Program Mailing Lists

Majors Mailing Lists
Concentration Mailing Lists
Emphasis Mailing Lists
Program Mailing Lists

NOTE: Major, Concentration, Emphasis, and Program aliases can be used only with authorization from the department, concentration, or program director.

Course Mailing Lists

Course mailing lists include every registered member of a class. Faculty teaching the course and auditors are also included. Teaching assistants (TA's) are not included. TA's should be requested to be included by the instructor.

NOTE: Course mailing lists should be used only with the authorization of the faculty member teaching the course.

Current Term Courses

Mailing lists exist for current courses and are in effect according to the following schedule:

Term	Valid Dates
Semester 1	September 1 through December 31
Interim	January 1 through January 31
Semester 2	February 1 through May 31
Summer Session 1	June 1 through July 15
Summer Session 2	July 16 through August 31

View the list of current course mailing lists.

Past and Future Term Courses

Course mailing lists exist for future terms -- once registration has occurred for that term -- and for the past five terms. (one year) For example, semester 1 mailing lists can be used through semester 1 of the following year.

In order to use past or future term mailing lists, you must use the "fully qualified" course mailing list name. In general, this "fully qualified" list name is of the form:

year-term-course@stolaf.edu

where year is like "2004-05" and term is one of the following: semester1, interim, semester2, summersession1, summersession2. The course is the familiar name like "classics-129" or "math-112."

Lists of students enrolled in courses from past or future terms is available through the Student Information System.