Top 5 Duke E-Mail Management Tidbits
5. Messages from The Graduate School
Please check your official Duke e-mail account regularly for important deadlines and announcements from graduate school administrators and a periodic digest of announcements from campus and community groups.
4. Messages from Your Department(s)
If you haven’t already, you should learn, memorize, and in all other ways indelibly burn into your synapses the names and e-mail addresses of two very important people before you even arrive on campus. They are the Director of Graduate Studies (DGS) for your department and his or her Assistant (DGSA). Even if not marked as such, consider messages from your DGS and DGSA to be of highest priority. These individuals are crucial lifelines for navigating the course of your doctoral study at Duke.
3. GPSC News (& other lists to which you are automatically subscribed)
GPSCNews
Every graduate and professional student is automatically subscribed to GPSCNews. This is a listserve that sends out a weekly e-mail summarizing events and announcements of interest to graduate and professional students. If you pay attention to only one non-academic e-mail message on a given week, make it this one!
grad-gsa@duke.edu
All graduate students also receive e-mail from grad-gsa@duke.edu. E-mails from this address come from the Office of Graduate Student Affairs, which serves as the central contact for campus offices and agencies in the Durham community that would like to inform graduate students of interesting events and opportunities.
sdf@duke.edu
If you are receiving a Graduate School fellowship such as the Duke Endowment, University Scholars, or James B. Duke, you will receive messages from sdf@duke.edu. This is the listserv of the Society of Duke Fellows, an organization to which you automatically belong as a recipient of these fellowships.
2. A Word about Filters
If you feel like you spend half your day going through e-mail messages, consider using filters to group less important messages for later browsing. At the very least, ask your department’s network administrator to set up a spam filter if this has not already been done for you. If you aren’t sure who your network administrator is, see #4 for help.
1. Viruses & E-Mail Scams (A lighthearted look at a very serious issue)
If you forward this link to 10 people and send your social security and bank account numbers to the recently exiled princess of Jupiter, you will receive a college degree in the mail within two weeks. As an added bonus, we’ll even include a list of five hot stock picks and a one-year prescription for Viagra. Then you’ll hear your alarm clock going off and wake to find your bank account empty and all your friends mad at you because the attachment you sent yesterday crashed their hard drives. Oh, and by the way, please contact us to update your information for that mortgage that you don’t even have.
Last Updated (by wat@duke.edu): 09/09/2005