Announce Account Policy

The Announce Account is a way Law School community members can request a specific email “announcement” to be sent to one of three different listserv groups. These listserv groups are Students, Staff, and Faculty. The announcement can be submitted by any member of the Lewis & Clark community (faculty, staff, students or student organizations). The account is checked once a day, at 10:00 a.m. and all approved messages are forwarded on to the listserv groups shortly thereafter. The account may be checked at other times later in the day but only messages received by 10:00 a.m. are guaranteed to be sent out the same day. Requestors should send their email to announce@lclark.edu.

Requestors should factor in the time of day and not wait until the last minute to send email requests to the Announce Account. Please allow at least an extra day to ensure that your email will be sent out when needed.

The subject matter of the announcement should, in some way, connect to the mission of the Law School. Submitted emails are checked for this criteria before being forwarded. Emails that contain strictly personal opinions, are non-Law School related, or contain inappropriate or offensive language are subject to review and approval by the Computing Services Team Leader, Bruce Williamson and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Martha Spence. If there is a question about the content, the sender of the e-mail will be contacted to discuss the matter. This will delay forwarding the email.

There are two additional criteria that must be met by any submission. First, any submission must include a “reply to” email address, and name. No message can be sent unless it is clear who the message is from and who the contact person is for questions or inquiries about the message.

The second criteria that must be met is that the e-mail specifically state which listserv group or groups to which the announcement should go. If there is no specific request made, the best efforts will be made to send it to the appropriate group. Keep in mind that the Computing Services department will only forward those messages that specifically mention the faculty to the faculty listserv group. In other words, it is not to be assumed that any announcement will go to all three groups, i.e., students, faculty and staff, without a specific request to do so.

Attachments: If there is a request to forward a Word document, PDF, or other document, a webdisk “ticket” will be created so recipients can retrieve the data file. Currently no photos or videos will be considered for ticket creation.