Information Technology Services:

Posting to Campus Mailing Lists

Mills College provides news mailing lists so that members of the Mills community can share information with each other. These messages do not go into your inbox, but each day you get a digest with the messages sent out over the previous 24 hours.

These lists – student-news, faculty-news, staff-news – are meant for news of events, opinions and comments, items for sale, requests for information, etc. Ads for businesses are not permitted. Below are instructions on how to use these lists:

• You post messages by sending email to student-news@mills.edu, staff-news@mills.edu, or faculty-news@mills.edu.

• You can only post from your mills.edu email address or another email address that you have added to the Mills College database through myMILLS.

• Messages should be of reasonable size. In an age of spam, please keep your messages succinct and to the point; that way, they are more likely to be read. Long messages are automatically rejected. If you wish to post a long item, please consider these alternatives:
  
  •If the message  (and related attachments, if any) properly belongs on the official Mills website under an academic or student service area, please contact a departmental web liaison and a relevant page can be created on the website. If you wish to advertise that page on the newslists, you can simply add the URL of the page in your post.
  
  • You can place a long message, and attachments, into your personal web space and reference them by URL in a much smaller message. All members of the Mills community – student, staff, and faculty – are eligible to create personal web pages on people.mills.edu. Go to to the Personal Web Space page for details on how to set up a personal web site.

• Do not reply to a daily digest where your reply includes the entire digest. If you wish to reply to one message, visit Mills Webmail and open your student-news folder. Then find the message in question and reply. This folder is only accessible when using an email program that connects to your Mills account. If you choose to not forward all your Mills email to an off-campus address, we allow the use of Outlook, Thunderbird, and other email programs (in addition to Webmail) to read messages kept in your Mills account. See this page on how to set up your Email Client Settings

If you need additional information on posting to the newslists, contact postmaster@mills.edu