CSC Email Domain Usage Protocol

The Central Societies Committee (CSC) maintains an email domain @csc.tcd.ie to provide both the CSC and each society under its aegis with a means of communication with one another and to facilitate each society’s communication with its members. The provision of a society account on @csc.tcd.ie domain is with the understanding that it is used solely for the purpose of transacting that society’s business.

The CSC is concerned at the growth of email saturation whereby the quantity of emails received by societies undermines the fundamental purpose of having a society email address.

Furthermore, many individuals or groups (internal or external) wish, for their own purposes, to communicate with specific groups of societies through email, and of particular concern is mass or bulk email to society accounts. Mass or bulk email, by definition, is unsolicited email sent quickly in large quantities including emails of very similar content sent individually in quick succession.

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The purpose of this protocol is to provide guidance for those wishing to communicate with, or disseminate information to, a society or number of societies by email through email addresses within the @csc.tcd.ie domain. The protocol applies to all students who are not members of the particular society/societies, all individual members of college staff, societies, departments, both academic and administrative, and other third parties wishing to utilise the @csc.tcd.ie domain. Hereafter the use of the term “external party” shall be understood to refer to all students who are not members of the particular society/societies, all individual members of college staff, societies, departments, both academic and administrative, and other third parties.

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