University Message - Rearranged!

Noel Laam

Used to feel the jam and disarray of the University messages when you switched on the computer in the morning? Never again, as the situation is relieved with the new arrangement in place.
To give the University messages a better structure ,a new display sequence has been adopted as follows:

Sequence

1. Today's Event	-	Showing the events held on that day
2. News and Announcement	-	Displaying announcements of interest to the CityU Staff
3. Conference, Seminar and Course	-	Displaying conferences, seminars and courses to be held soon
4. Today's Press Clippings	-	Showing daily press clippings summary concerning CityU and the academic sector
5. Faculty/College Message (if any)	-	Displaying messages concerning faculty/college
6. Departmental Message (if any)	-	Displaying messages concerning department
7. Departmental Staff Leave Status (if any)	-	Leave information of staff
8. Disk Quota Exceeded (if any) (Personal Email / OpenVMS Account)	-	Displaying (within the department only) the names of the accounts that exceed the disk quota

Staff are encouraged to read the University messages at least once daily in order not to miss any important announcements. There are also other means to read the messages, and they are described below:

Reading University messages (items 1, 2 & 3 above) via the Web
There are corresponding Web pages for messages appearing in items 2 and 3. To read these University messages via the Web, just click the "News" hyperlink in the University home page and select the option "University Message (CityU Staff Only)".
Reading University messages (items 2 & 3 above) via PolyLink
Board 18 "University Message Archive" in the Staff Channel of PolyLink stores all the University messages displayed on the staff network for a period of six months.

Reading University messages (items 2 & 3 above) via electronic mail
To receive electronic mail (e-mail) containing the University message posted on the staff network, you need to be on the "University Message Mailing List". To subscribe to this list, simply send an e-mail to MAILSERV@cityu.edu.hk with the following message body:

Subscribe NET-MESGS

To remove your name from the list, just change the message body to:

Unsubscribe NET-MESGS

On top of that, a revised scheme has been devised to help alleviate the congestion and simplify the administration involved. The major points are:

1.   Normal posting period is shortened to 3 days.
2.   Message content should be within 1 screen-page.
3.   If by e-mail, eligible users should send a message to "cnetmsg" (instead of cc@plink.cityu.edu.hk).
4.   University message should serve as a reminder only and the content must be as concise as possible. Details of the message should be put at proper places (eg. Bulletin Board in PolyLink, Web etc.)
For other details, please visit http://www.cityu.edu.hk/csc/netmsg/.

[Issue No. 15]

Computing Services Centre
City University of Hong Kong
ccnetcom@cityu.edu.hk

1.	Normal posting period is shortened to 3 days.
2.	Message content should be within 1 screen-page.
3.	If by e-mail, eligible users should send a message to "cnetmsg" (instead of cc@plink.cityu.edu.hk).
4.	University message should serve as a reminder only and the content must be as concise as possible. Details of the message should be put at proper places (eg. Bulletin Board in PolyLink, Web etc.)
For other details, please visit http://www.cityu.edu.hk/csc/netmsg/.