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FACSS
Who
Is The Facss List For
FACSS is the abbreviation of Friendship
Association of Chinese Students and Scholars at UNC-Chapel Hill. A mailing
list was created for FACSS announcements, party information, topics crucial
to the UNC FACSS community, culture related activities, as well as personal
stuff like items for sale and looking for roommates. Almost all the Chinese
people in UNC-Chapel Hill have subscribed to the mailing list.
- How
to Subscribe and Unsubscribe
You can use the web interface of http://listserv.unc.edu/
to subscribe.
An alternative approach would be to send
email to listserv@unc.edu
, leave the Subject blank, and put the following command in the mail body
for subscription:
subscribe facss your_first_name
your_last_name
Put the following command in the mail body
for unsubscription:
unsubscribe facss your_first_name
your_last_name
If everything goes fine, you will soon
receive a confirmation message, which will instruct you on how to proceed.
One thing you should remember is that you can only subscribe with the email
address that you send email from.
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Post
a Message to the Lists
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Once you have subscribed, you can use UNC
listserv web interface to post your message, or you can reply any email
sent from the facss list with "reply all" or just send an email directly
to the address: facss@listserv.unc.edu
Before you proceed, you also need to read
the following netiquette tips for the facss mailing list.
Netiquette
Tips
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Only post from your own functional address.
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Do not post the same message more than once.
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Do not post irrelevant messages (politics,
site self-promotion, unsolicited commercial advertisements, personal attack,
obscene materials and the like).
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Keep in mind that nobody gets paid for monitoring
the lists or answering questions.
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What
Kinds of Messages Are Posted
The mailing list mainly posts four categories
of messages:
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Facss announcements;
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Advertisements on Housing;
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Advertisements on Sales, Cars, Child Care,
Health Care, and other information;
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Announcements of Party, Seminar, Conference,
Forum, Activity, and other social events.
These are some typical subjects from the recent
messages of facss mailing list: Moving Sale, Looking for someone who is
interested in trip to Orlando on spring break, Interested in Sharing
Your Apartment or House? List of FACSS's movie collection, Welcome to Chinese
Spring Festival celebration! Good news: Golden Garden Restaurant's Offer
to FACSS Members.
According to my personal experience, facss
mailing list is very useful and very convenient for use. By posting messages
on this list, I found a partner for traveling to Mexico, I learnt various
Health Insurance programs when I just arrived in US, I also found out many
activities held both by Chinese people and international students. Therefore
I think it is a successful mailing list and beneficial for all the members.
In my point of view, the quality of a mailing
list not only depends on the Internet technique, but also depends on all
the members of this list: on their consciousness to abbey the Netiquette,
on their warm attitude to share information with other list mates and to
help each other. Mailing list is a virtual community. All the members
of this community should take the responsibility for its development.
