Frequently Asked Questions: SRCF Membership Lists

Why have I been subscribed to mailing lists called Soc-SRCF, Soc-SRCF-users, Soc-SRCF-maintenance and/or Soc-SRCF-social?

The SRCF needs to be able to keep in contact with our users at all times (a requirement imposed upon us). We therefore automatically subscribe you to Soc-SRCF, Soc-SRCF-users and Soc-SRCF-maintenance shortly after creating your account. We will also subscribe you to Soc-SRCF-social if you requested this during the signup process.

These are very low-traffic mailing lists—just a few messages per year—and we do our best to ensure that the messages sent are relevant to as many people as possible. We hope that you will not consider this to be an inconvenience.

What sort of message will be sent to these mailing lists?

• Soc-SRCF contains members of the SRCF (membership is for life), and receives messages from the committee about such things as:
  • major society event announcements (e.g. AGMs, garden parties, etc.)—usually about three events per year
  • rare but important society administrative information (e.g. constitutional amendments) which affect all members
• Soc-SRCF-users contains users of the SRCF (which only applies whilst you have CUDN access, as per the Terms of Service), and receives messages from the sysadmins which are important to account holders, for example:
  • urgent messages which require the attention of every SRCF user (e.g. security compromises)—very infrequent, we hope!
  • rare but important system administrative information (e.g. terms of service changes) which affect all users
• Soc-SRCF-maintenance is used for announcements about planned and ongoing system unavailability (downtime), and announcements about important changes to service provision (e.g. increased quotas, software changes which may require your action, etc.). If you are not interested in receiving such messages, you are welcome to unsubscribe, but many users find these announcements useful.
• Soc-SRCF-social is a more open mailing list for announcement and discussion of social events (pub meets, LAN parties, garden parties, the annual UCS machine room tour, etc.). Any SRCF member is welcome to join or leave this list at any time.

I would like to unsubscribe from Soc-SRCF and/or Soc-SRCF-users.

Because we must be able to contact everyone with an SRCF account, you may only unsubscribe from Soc-SRCF or Soc-SRCF-users if you are willing to close your SRCF account. You therefore cannot unsubscribe directly from these lists. Please contact the sysadmins if you would like to close your SRCF account. You will lose access to SRCF services.

Usually, when you lose your SRCF account, you will be automatically unsubscribed from Soc-SRCF-users—but not Soc-SRCF as you remain a SRCF member for life and are still welcome to attend SRCF events. If you would like to unsubscribe from Soc-SRCF as well, please explicitly mention this when contacting us.

I would like to unsubscribe from Soc-SRCF-maintenance and/or Soc-SRCF-social.

No problem—you can do this directly:

• Unsubscribe from Soc-SRCF-maintenance
• Unsubscribe from Soc-SRCF-social

I would like to (re)join Soc-SRCF-maintenance and/or Soc-SRCF-social.

No problem—you can do this directly:

• Subscribe to Soc-SRCF-maintenance
• Subscribe to Soc-SRCF-social

Can I seen an archive of messages posted to these lists previously?

Certainly:

• Soc-SRCF archive
• Soc-SRCF-users archive
• Soc-SRCF-maintenance archive
• Soc-SRCF-social archive