Listservs

Important Listservs at Queen's Faculty of Law

Listservs provide a means of paperless communication here at Queen's Faculty of Law between faculty, staff and students.

1. QLAW-ALL-L

Open to faculty, sessional instructors, staff AND STUDENTS, this listserv is to be used for announcements PERTAINING TO THE FACULTY OF LAW'S ACADEMIC COURSES AND PROGRAMS -- announcements about guest lectures, visitors, appointments candidates, FYRP sessions, Career Services announcements, LSS general meetings, LSS elections, and other messages of a similar nature. In other words, QLAW-ALL-L will become the official announcement listserv. Most messages to QLAW-LAW-L, though not all, will come from faculty and administrators . No attachments are permitted.

For class announcements, please use the class listservs (described below). Class announcements should not appear on QLAW5, except perhaps in the first few days of term while the class listservs are being set up.

2. QLAW-STUDENTS-L

Open to faculty, staff and students, this listserv is to be used for announcements that do not qualify for QLAW-ALL-L, including those of a NON-ACADEMIC NATURE.These messages may include announcements about intramural sports events, social events, "classifieds" for books and apartments, rides to Toronto, respectful discussions about current issues or events, "looking for Bob" messages, and so on. All communication on this listserv is to be consistent with the goal of fostering an inclusive and supportive working/learning environment for the Queen's Law community. No attachments are permitted.

3. CLASS LISTSERVS

Class listservs are set up for EACH course taught . Only subscribers to the class listserv (the instructor, the faculty support staff member assigned to the instructor, and the students enrolled in the course) can send and receive email generated on a class listserv. This is an excellent communication tool for encouraging questions on course materials, discussing a current point of law, notifying students of class scheduling changes, providing a course reading, etc. Attachments are permitted.

Every effort is made to get the class listservs up and operational as soon as possible. However, the upper year course add/drop period at the beginning of each term can create a delay of a couple of weeks at the beginning of each term. Instructions on how to use the listserv(s) are also provided.

INCOMING FIRST YEAR Students are automatically subscribed to their class listservs during the first week of classes.

UPPER YEAR Students are automatically subscribed to their class listservs at the end of the course add/drop period.

4. CLASS YEAR LISTSERVS (i.e., Law11-L, Law12-L, Law13-L)

Open to faculty administrators and students enrolled in a particular year of study to facilitate communication of information of particular interest to that group of students (i.e., Law13-L for the First Year Resource Program, Law11-L for information on graduation in May 2011, etc.).

IMPORTANT REMINDER FOR ALL LISTSERVS On ALL messages on ALL listservs, but especially on QLAW-STUDENTS-L, please USE THE SUBJECT LINE to tell everybody what the message is about, so that those who are not interested may delete the message without reading it. Listserv users should be able to avoid reading what they do not wish to read. The subject line should serve as notice of what the message is about so as to enable readers to make that decision.

OTHER LISTSERVS

QLAW-FACSTAFF-L All Faculty and Staff

QLAW-FACULTY-L Full-time Faculty only

QLAW-STAFF-L Faculty of Law Administration and Staff

Computer User Code of Ethics of Queen's University

All other rules regarding listserv use, including QLAW2-L, remain the same. All messages must include the full name of the sender somewhere in the "from" line or in the text of the message. ALL LISTSERVS ARE SUBJECT TO THE COMPUTER USER CODE OF ETHICS of Queen's University, found at http://www.queensu.ca/secretariat/policies/senateandtrustees/computerethics.html.

The Code is a Senate policy. Section 3 states in part:

1.  Users must use computing facilities and services only for the purposes for which they were authorized. Specifically, University computing accounts must not be:

              1.  Used for ... any form of direct personal financial gain (except for appropriate contract and external accounts)
              2.  Provided as free resources to other persons for unauthorized purposes

Section 8 states, "Users must not use computing facilities to send obscene, vulgar or harassing messages."

If you discover that you are not on a particular listserv or have any other questions, please contact:

Nancy Somers
Manager, Academic Program
somersn@queensu.ca
tel. 613-533-6000, ext. 75318
fax 613-533-6509