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Subscribe to the Information Technology Newsletter; it is published monthly by the Office of Information Technology.

We maintain two lists. You can subscribe to one or both: an e-mail list and a paper mailing list.

Missing the current issue? Periodically we cull our mailing list. This summer we required all those who subscribed to the paper mailing list to resubscribe by July 15, 2003, in time for the August issue. If you're missing a copy, you probably missed that deadline. To resubscribe, read on.

The e-mail list: oitnews-l

You can subscribe to a restricted mailing list whose sole functions are to alert you that a new issue is on-line and to send you an annotated table of contents of that issue. You can access the issue on the web and read one article at a time, or you can download a PDF (Acrobat) version so you can easily read it off-line or print a copy.

To get on the mailing list, send a subscribe request to the University's central LISTSERV address as shown below.

   1. Send e-mail to: listserv@umn.edu
   2. Skip the "subject" line
   3. Type this in the message portion: subscribe oitnews-l Your_Name

                       for example: subscribe oitnews-l Allison Wonderland
                       [Please note: -l is lowercase L]

The paper mailing list

Paper copies are free but are mailed only within the USA. The subscriber information we need is listed below.

   1. E-mail your delivery info to: oitnsltr@umn.edu
   2. Send your delivery info by campus or non-campus mail

Campus mail:     Information Technology Newsletter     OIT     190 ShepLab     Delivery code: 0771

Non-campus mail:    Information Technology Newsletter    Office of Information Technology    University of Minnesota    190 Shepherd Labs    100 Union Street SE    Minneapolis, MN 55455-0421

A. Campus mail option
If you use a campus mail address, you will receive your copy sooner and will save us money. Send us:
   1. the recipient's name
   2. the recipient's department
   3. the departmental mailing address

Department mailing address note: If you don't know your official campus mail address, we can look it up. The departmental mailing address is usually different from your personal office address. The Campus Mail section of your on-line directory entry lists your campus mail address and the 4-digit campus delivery code we also need for the newsletter because it's a bulk mail item.

B. U.S. Postal Service option
Send us:
   1. the recipient's name
   2. company name, if appropriate
   3. street address
   4. city, state, zip (use zip+4 if you know it)

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   1. Send e-mail to: listserv@umn.edu
   2. Skip the "subject" line (or type unsubscribe as subject)
   3. Type this in the message portion: unsubscribe oitnews-l
      [Note: -l is lowercase L.]

Having trouble unsubscribing?
If you have trouble unsubscribing, it is probably because you are not sending e-mail from the address you used to subscribe to the list. If you have trouble unsubscribing, you can send your request to: oitnsltr@umn.edu

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Please send us the Rec# (record number); find the Rec# on the back page of the newsletter. It is on the line above your name.

   1. E-mail your delivery info to: oitnsltr@umn.edu
   2. Or send your delivery info by campus or non-campus mail. (Save Campus Mail some work. Just rip off the back page and mail that one page to us.)

FYI: Campus mail requirements

Campus Mail only delivers mail to designated sites. Since many departments have offices in several buildings, those department could have mail drops (mailing addresses) in more than one building.

Bulk mail must use special codes:
Bulk mail items, like the Information Technology Newsletter, must use the zip code like delivery codes that Campus Mail has set up.

Campus mail delivery codes:
Campus Mail has set up Delivery (Building) Codes for most campus locations, such as 0265 for departments housed on the ground floor of Morrill Hall. These codes are like ZIP codes, and we must include them on our newsletter mailing labels.

Don't know the code?
Don't worry. Generally we can look up the code by accessing your on-line directory entry. 

Look up your own address:
To look up your own campus mail address, look at the Campus Mail section of your on-line directory entry: http://umn.edu/lookup

All the Delivery Codes:
You can find all the codes in one place. Campus Mail has a searchable PDF (Acrobat) document of all their delivery codes. The nearly 100 page list starts with numerical addresses, such as 1100 Washington, then continues with an alaphabetical list (Akerman Hall through Wulling Hall). Access it via the campus mail website.

Useful links

Zip + 4     U.S. Postal code lookups     Standard abbreviations     U.S. Postal

UM Addressing & Mailing    User Guide and more