What are Campus E-mail Guidelines?
To further reduce the chance of exceeding the storage quota, here are a few rules-of-the-cyber-highway for e-mail. • Business e-mail is done in plain text. HTML e-mail may have the potential to look “fancier” but it also unnecessarily eats up bandwidth and storage space. • When mass e-mailing the campus, attachments should rarely be used. If you must attach a file, it should be no more than 50 kilobytes and accessible by an application common to the IUN community (such as Microsoft Word). Large graphic images, Power Point presentations, campus event fliers, etc., should never be attached to a mass e-mailing. These types of materials should be posted on on appropriate bulletin boards or (better still) on departmental websites. Send your e-mail with the link to the website rather than the attachment. • Phone first If you are sending a large attachment to an individual, call them before you send it and let them know it is coming. They may not have the storage space available in their acco
