Overview
Below are common questions about Simplelists: a service that provides a way to enable group discussions over email that include non-SFU members.
DETAILS
HOW DO I FIND OUT MORE INFORMATION ABOUT SIMPLELISTS?
SIMPLELISTS APPEARS TO BE A FEE-FOR-SERVICE TOOL. IS THERE A COST TO USE THE SERVICE?
SFU has an account with Simplelists. Any email address can participate in a list as a member, but if you wish to host a list with a @lists.sfu.ca email address you must be an SFU Account holder and request access from the
Email Distribution Lists service page. DOES SFU HAVE AN ENTERPRISE LICENSE FOR SIMPLELISTS?
SHOULD I USE CAMPAIGNER OR SIMPLELISTS FOR SENDING EMAILS TO EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDERS?
There are three ways to manage email lists at SFU, Campaigner or Simplelists are for any email list that contains at least one external member (an address that is not in "sfu.ca"). If your email is for non-marketing, internal communications to sfu.ca email addresses, use SFU Maillist instead.
If your message is at all marketing related such as advertising events, services, programs, broad outreach to large groups of people with no discussion between those members, Campaigner is the best tool as it meets all the requirements for allowing people to manage their subscriptions in marketing messages. It is one-way messaging only: from you to the members.
Simplelists' primary use case is groups of people who need to communicate as a group. For example, a researcher who is an expert in a topic at SFU that wants to host a discussion on that topic with people at other institutions in Canada or worldwide. Think of a discussion forum where all the members can interact. Functionally Simplelists will perform a similar role to something like Google Groups email forums, but provides an email address that shows the discussion is being hosted at SFU with an email address in the form: listname@lists.sfu.ca
HOW DO I CREATE or manage LISTS IN SIMPLELISTS?
HOW DO I ADD/REMOVE EMAILS IN SIMPLELISTS?