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There is a new FFLA news email distribution
system! This note describes how it works.
If you want to send a message to the entire
FFLA membership, address your message to ff-la@YahooGroups.com.
The message moderator (currently Carolee Lawrence) will get a
notification that you sent a message. The message moderator then decides
if the email is appropriate for the entire FFLA membership, and if it
is, she approves it, and it is distributed.
For example, if you receive an email about an upcoming FFLA potluck, do not
respond to ff-la@YahooGroups.com
but instead respond directly to the FFLA member who is requesting more
information. That way everybody on the FFLA member list is not
overwhelmed by many emails and the person requesting information
immediately receives it.
John Boland is to be thanked very much for laboriously entering FFLA
members email addresses into the FFLA Yahoo Group database. If you
change your email address, let John know as he is the address list
moderator and only he (or as a back-up the message moderator Carolee or
the webmaster Peter) can add email addresses to the list.
As a list member, you can read an archive of past messages (and
other Group information) by going to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ff-
la/, but only if you try to do so from the email address that
John entered for you. Also, if you want to send a message to the Group,
you must do so from the email address that John entered for you.
That way only authorized people will be able to post or have access to
Group messages.
If you want to send a message or respond
only to an FFLA member, do not click on Reply or use ff-la@YahooGroups.com in
any address field (which potentially goes to everybody) and instead just
click Forward and address your note to that member. If you
click on Reply, the message goes only to the list moderator (who will not
approve distribution to the entire FFLA General Membership) and not
to the intended recipient.
The purpose of the FFLA news distribution system is to control
and limit the number of emails received by FFLA members to only those
which the list moderator believes are relevant to most people. In
addition, your email addresses has been shielded from potential Spammers.
And any previously posted messages are visible only to current FFLA
members, so Club privacy is protected. Finally, we have an archive of
all previously posted messages for future reference.
Peter Landecker, FFLA Webmaster, 9 April 2008 |