Emergency-l is a mailing list that includes every member of the HMC students, staff and faculty. It is unmoderated, so messages sent to it are sent directly to everybody. DO NOT SEND MESSAGES TO EMERGENCY-L. The list is solely for emergency use by people who are supposed to inform the campus in the event of an emergency. THIS IS NOT YOU. An example of use in the past is notification of an impending power outage during the spring 2000 semester, which was sent by the Facilities & Maintenance (F&M) staff. IF YOU SEND A MESSAGE TO EMERGENCY-L, YOU WILL BE SUBJECT TO DISCIPLINARY ACTION. Abuse of this mailing list is strictly prohibited.

It is also recommended that you do not keep emergency-l in your address book if you are using Outlook. First of all, you should never send mail to it. Secondly, if you contract an Outlook virus, the virus may immediately send itself to every student, staff and faculty on campus.

The requirements for a message to appear on emergency-l are that the message must be of vital importance to the students, staff and faculty of HMC, the message must be time sensitive, and the message must be relevant to a large enough subset of the students, staff and faculty that a different list wouldn’t be appropriate (like staff-l, hmc2007-l or summer-l).