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Email
and Electronic Communications Practices, Policies and Etiquette
from the Office of Information Technology
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Communicating via email gives you great power to reach many
people, to inform them, to obtain information, and to irritate
and anger friends and strangers alike. Some simple, common
sense practices will help you use email as a productive tool
in your personal and professional life and help you maintain
positive relationships with friends and coworkers. Here are
some generally accepted “do’s and don’ts”
for email.
Before You Begin: A Reminder About Benedictine’s Acceptable
Use Policy
- Benedictine University voluntarily provides computing
equipment and services for the academic, research, administrative,
and communications needs of its students, faculty and staff.
- Access to all Benedictine University owned and/or
operated computing facilities is a privilege and not a right.
Individuals who refuse to follow the Acceptable Use Policy
(AUP) will not be granted user accounts. Violations of the
AUP by individuals may result in penalties included but
not limited to closure of all accounts and revocation of
all computing privileges.
- . . . the information stored on the University equipment
is the property of the University; the University will
not access the personal files of any authorized user without
that individual’s consent, with certain exceptions.
Read the complete text of
Acceptable Use Policy.
This document pertains to all students,
faculty and staff.
Match Your Communications Mechanism. (Email Isn’t
Right For Everything.)
• If you have information to disseminate, think about
effective tools that work but do not waste resources or intrude
on individuals not likely to be interested in your news.
• If you decide that you do not want to pay attention
to email from any particular person you may use email filtering
to divert such mail to a separate folder (for review at
your leisure) or directly to your deleted items folder.
You may filter email based on both the sender and on to
whom the message was sent (in other words, you can accept
messages addressed directly to you while filtering out messages
from the same person sent to you via a distribution list).
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