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Mailing Lists

About Mailing List

Mailing lists are email addresses that are associated with a department, group, or event rather than with an individual. Mailing lists at the University of Chicago serve two distinct functions:

• An internal means for disseminating information within an organization (for example, a campus bird-watching club might use a mailing list to post sightings for all the members to enjoy)
• An external address that is associated with a department or project (for example, the Department of Classics might use a mailing list address for people within and without the University to inquire about and register for a conference on Ovid).

Because of the disparate functions that mailing lists serve, subscriptions to mailing lists can be as small as one person (the Department of Classics might have a single staff member assigned to information and registration for their Ovid conference), or as large as several hundred people.

One advantage to using mailing lists for departmental or group functions is that the mailing list subscription can be modified to accommodate changes to the way the mailing list is being used. Additionally, mailing lists solve the problem of relying on one staff member's personal email address for departmental communications.

Using Mailing Lists

Lists.uchicago.edu is the University of Chicago's electronic mailing list service. To view, moderate, or administer your email lists, go to https://lists.uchicago.edu and log in using your CNetID and password.

For Mailing List documentation and FAQs, see our Mailing List Documentation site.

For information about the migration of mailing list to the new Lists service, see our Mailing List Migration page. If you are still using our old Mailing List service, Listhost, you can view our old FAQs, Subscriber Information, and Change Ownership or Close instructions until all the mailing lists are migrated.

To learn about the policies governing mailing lists, see our Electronic Mailing Lists Policy.

Request a Shortened Address

By default, mailing list addresses are listname@lists.uchicago.edu. If an email address will be used in an organizational role or will be widely published, you may request an email address that is shortened to listname@uchicago.edu. To apply for a short name, complete the Shortened Address Request form.

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