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What to
do when your fricking email address changes for the
umpteenth time
1. When Your
Email Address Changes
Send
an email to James
R. Ingram
, notifying him of your new address.
2. Advanced
Users
Send
a CC to the President Jeff Johnstonbaugh, and
the Treasurer Charles Campbell
3. Power
Users
Send
a blank email to looseties-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
, which will initiate a request to subscribe
your new address to the Listserver.
Assuming I
have received your email from Step 1, I will
know your address is that of a member, and
can approve it.
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more
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Listservers
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4. Reason For
Above Requests:
- The more
of the above steps you can do yourself, the
less time some dweeb (presently me) has to
spend "wiping up after you" when your email
address changes.
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Additional
Comments
5. Work
Created By A Change Of Email
Address:
In the case of
the Loose Ties, an email change on the part of a
member, requires me to
- (1) update
it in the membership list,
(2) update
it in the Listserver data base,
and
(3) update
it in my personal address book; to get
everything "up to date".
Then the
President has to update it in HIS records, if
he wants to be able to correspond with the
member individually.
6. If People
Don't Inform Us Of Their Change Of Email
Address:
- If people
don't tell us their new email addresses, then
Jeff's newsletters fail to reach them -- i.e.
lost communication. Then I have to
(4) spend
additional time, trying to contact that
member by telephone, to find out what is
their new email address.
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7.
Recommending A More Permanent Address:
- We
recommend that people either
(a) get
their own permanent domain name (example
track2.com), or
- (b) get a
Yahoo or similar permanent address that
doesn't change every time you change your
ISP.
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