Mailing list application
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General
On this page you will find everything you need to know about applying for and setting up mailing lists.
Please note: This service (setting up and maintaining mailing lists) is only available to members (staff and students) of the University of Kassel!
Prerequisites
The topic of the list should be clearly related to the university, its facilities, research or teaching. This naturally also includes lists on which student issues are discussed.
At least one person in charge should document their affiliation to the university by means of a university account (with an e-mail address of the University of Kassel).
The name of a mailing list should correspond to our naming convention:
- A short but unique name, usually consisting of two parts connected by a hyphen.
- The first part should give an indication of the overarching institution in the form of an abbreviation.
- The second part should contain the more specific name.
Example: its-news, DGfE-gsf, Umweltpsychologie-Doktoranden
Type of mailing list
Depending on the intended use, we will set up the desired mailing list with a standard configuration that is sufficient in most cases. You can also change all configurations again once they have been set up. Further information can be found in the article Mail list administration.
Each list can only ever have one purpose! If you require several lists, please submit several requests. Each request must contain an individual list name!
Would you like to regularly send information and news to a group of interested parties? The easiest way to do this is with a newsletter. A newsletter is characterized by the fact that e-mails are sent from one or a few e-mail addresses to a large group of recipients. A discussion about the topics of these mails does not take place on the mailing list. In general, the group of recipients of these mails is not restricted. Only a small group of defined persons may send messages to the registered participants.
Do you need a "real" mailing list in which all subscribers (possibly under the supervision of a moderator) can discuss a specific topic? Then the discussion list is just right for you! Two types of discussion lists are available for this purpose:
The two types of discussion lists differ in terms of the target group: external lists are open to everyone, internal lists are restricted to a specific group of recipients.
The same applies to any existing archive of the list in question. The archive of an internal discussion list is only accessible to subscribers to the list in question; in the case of an external discussion list, it may also make sense to make it accessible to non-subscribers (e.g. so that contributions to the list can be found via search engines).
Applying for a mailing list
To set up a mailing list, we need some information from you. Please fill out our form to apply for a mailing list .