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Hikanbyke's Google
Listserv Policy |
Welcome to our listserv. Following
are some guidelines and tips:
The Google Groups Website
You can visit the
Hikanbyke Googlegroups listserv website
any time you like. You must be a member (subscriber) of the list before
you can post a message. You should "register" yourself and give
yourself a nickname so that everyone will
recognize a post from you. You can browse all the Hikanbyke
messages, in case you missed any of them.
Once registered, you can have some control over
your preferences, e.g., you can elect to receive
a daily "digest" of all posts from the previous
day instead of individual emails. As with
most websites, there are some advertisements and
this is the price we pay for having a free
service.
Hikanbyke does not
appear in Google's directory listing of groups. This prevents
Phishing to obtain our list name (and subsequent
garbage messages).
Receivers of your postings may not recognize who you are from your
email address. Therefore, you must
sign each of your postings
and provide some form
of contact information as well (your name and
email is fine, a phone # and/or address are
optional).
Although there
is a considerable amount of latitude given for
the content of posts, the primary purpose is to
notify members about impromptu or last
minute events and cancellations.
Other
valid uses might be:
- Posts about the well-being of members.
- News about non-Hikanbyke events that
would be of interest to Hikanbyke members.
- Wanted or for sale items that relate to the
club's charter (activities related to hiking &
biking).
- And any other items along the above
guidelines.
- Political, personal,
off-color jokes, advertisements, and/or chain
emails are NOT appropriate.
Posts of this type only aggravate members and defeat the list's purpose, so please
be considerate.
- If you have any doubts, get a
2nd opinion from another member or one of the
club coordinators before posting.
About receiving posts
In order to continue receiving Hikanbyke
email
notices,
it is strongly recommend that you "train" your
email to accept messages from Google
groups.
We know this is difficult because the email will
appear to arrive from the various Hikanbyke
members who sent them, when in fact, the email
really comes from Googlegroups. You should
"tell" your email that
hikanbyke@googlegroups.com is NOT
spam, and you can place the sender (
hikanbyke@googlegroups.com)
in your approved sender's list. Unfortunately, not
all email providers and email programs work
exactly in the same manner, but all of them have
some provision for accomplishing this. If you
are in doubt, contact your email provider tech
support and they can help you.
About subscribing and/or un-subscibing
This is a self-managed list. That means
you control your own subscription.
If you want to receive emails, you must
subscribe yourself. If you don't want to
receive emails, you must un-subscribe
yourself. If you want to change your email
address, you
must perform BOTH operations (e.g.,
un-subscribe your old email address and
subscribe with your new email address). And you must do
all of these
from the email address
that's in question. Also remember that the
Google list has nothing in common with the
Hikanbyke membership database. If you
change your email address, please remember to notify
the
membership coordinator so we can keep
our records updated too. We will send you a reminder
when your membership is near expiring.
New members to the Hikanbyke Goggle Group
When a new member subscribes to the list,
they will be "moderated." This means that
any post from that email address will be
suspended until Diane Savard or Charlie Uhlman approves
it. This will be the case until your identity
is determined (simple if you sign
your email). As long as the message is
legitimate, we will approve it. Once
we see that the new member is a 'bona fide'
Hikanbyke member who posts legitimate
messages, the moderation restriction will be
removed. This is in an effort to
protect the list from spam and unscrupulous
people.
Email format and instructions
When Google forwards a post to members, the
subject line will always contain this:
[Hikanbyke:123]. The number is a cumulative
count of the posts, so you can reference a
particular post and find it quickly on the
website. If the subject line does not contain
this identifier, then it is not a genuine post,
so beware. Additionally, the following
instructions will be repeated at the bottom of
each post for your convenience:
Getting help
Most problems will fall into these two
categories: You can't get subscribed or you no
longer receive posts. Both of these happen for
the same reason: Google sends a post to you
and an error is returned by your email which
results in Google "bouncing" you off the list.
Reactivating your email will not fix the problem
and eventually you will get bounced off the list
again. It is best to attempt to fix the
source of the problem and then re-activate your
email. You can also try
Help at the
Google website where
they have some good suggestions. And don't
forget, you can always contact your
email provider for help. Once
you think you have the problem addressed and
need to be re-activated, send
Diane Savard or
Charlie Uhlman an email and we will get you
changed to "active" again.
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