Information for current staff & students

Announcements and advertisements

This page provides access to selected local (University of Cambridge) announcement, advertisement and other newsgroups. Please read the disclaimer and notes below. See leaflet H2: Mail and Information Services and FAQ J4: How can I post an article to a local newsgroup? for an introduction to newsgroups and to submitting ("posting") items, also background information about USENET news and the University's news server.

General access

Most of the links within this section allow anyone to read items in the selected newsgroups, using any web browser, but some (clearly identified) limit access to web browsers running on computers within the University of Cambridge.

Announcements

The following newsgroups are accessible only from computers within the University of Cambridge or with Raven authenticated access:

Discussion

The following newsgroups are accessible only from computers within the University of Cambridge network or with Raven authenticated access:

  • ucam.ucu.misc - discussion relating to to Cambridge UCU
  • ucam.aut.misc - discussion relating to to Cambridge AUT (superseded June 2007 by ucam.ucu.misc; old discussion remains available for reference)

Note that to participate in the discussions you must use appropriately-configured newsreading software - you can only read contributions via this web page, not add to them. However, some web browsers can also act as newsreaders, and the corresponding "direct news server access" link below may work and allow posting. See also information about using the University's news server.

Job advertisements

Other advertisements

The following two newsgroups are accessible only from computers within the University of Cambridge or with Raven authenticated access:

Direct news server access (University of Cambridge only)

  • If you are using a web browser on a computer within the University of Cambridge, and it has the ability to access the University of Cambridge news server directly and it is correctly configured to do that, then
  • the links in this section will provide direct access (using news: URLs) to the newsgroups with whatever style (could be anywhere from very basic to quite sophisticated!) your web browser provides, and probably faster.

If the direct news links do not work, it probably means those requirements aren't met and the easiest solution is to use the general access links, at least until you can sort out the problem.

Announcements

Discussion

  • ucam.ucu.misc - discussion relating to to Cambridge UCU
  • ucam.aut.misc - discussion relating to to Cambridge AUT (superseded June 2007 by ucam.ucu.misc; old discussion remains available for reference)

Job advertisements

Other advertisements

Disclaimer and notes

The content (including accuracy) of the news articles is the responsibility of their authors, not the Computing Service (except for official Computing Service announcements!).

Many announcements and advertisements are not cancelled immediately when they are no longer relevant (e.g. advertised item has been sold), though announcements may be left intentionally as a record of what has happened in the past.

There are many other ways in which announcements may be circulated within the University. For example, scheduled computer downtime is more likely to be mentioned when you log in to the particular computer, and information about jobs and events is more likely to be distributed on paper with only a small amount made available electronically.

The title of this document is: Announcements and advertisements
URL: http://www.cam.ac.uk/staffstudents/annevng.html

Last updated: 13/07/2009