How to send e-mails to the list and netiquette

As with every mailing list in the Internet there exists a certain minimal set of rules to ensure a pleasant run of the mailing list for everyone.

Please read the following netiquette carefully!

What you can send

In general you can send anything that complies with the purpose of our mailing lists:

• foreign-students - announcements for foreign students
  You can send following mails here:
  • events where everyone is welcome (please make clear WHO is organizing the event!)
  • if you have an apartment to let, you can also do it here (looking for an apartment-mails should be sent to the fs-chat-list)
  • general information (mostly sent by someone in the committee)
• fs-chat - for foreign students to chat
  Following mails:
  • looking for an apartment
  • looking for someone whose contact information you have lost
  • buying/selling things (no cigarettes or alcohol)
  • general discussion
• degree-students - messages containing in particular information for foreign degree students who complete their studies in Helsinki
• esn-helsinki - for ESN board members and active members of the committee.

Please use English when writing a mail to foreign-students, fs-chat and degree-students.

Please note that all of our mailing lists are moderated. Every message that comes through has to be accepted first by the moderator. This means that it might take a while before e-mails come through to the mailing list. If an e-mail has been sent to the wrong list, we reserve the right to send it to the corresponding list instead or reject it.

What you shouldn’t send:

• Personal conversations. Our mailing lists are not meant for personal conversations. If you want to contact someone you know from the mailing list users, you may ask for his/her address on the fs-chat-list.
• Insulting messages. All comments that can be read as racist or agitating against an ethnic, religious, political or other group of people and messages that insult somebody’s privacy are not accepted.
• Politically motivated messages.
• Chain letters. Don't send any chain letters (petitions, virus warnings, etc.)
• Large pictures or attachments. If you want to send a photograph, a map, etc. to the list, please put it on a web page instead, and only write the URL in your mail.
• Offers for selling cigarettes or alcohol are strongly forbidden on any of our list.
• Don't "cross-post" your message to several mailing lists simultaneously.
• Advertisements of things considered forbidden. (i.e. invitations to private parties in apartments owned by HOAS)
• The same message several times. Remember to be patient when waiting for your message to be accepted to the list.