[vicsireland] Re: irelandvipnews
- From: Melanie Pelka <melanie.pelka4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 09:45:53 +0200
I would like to give a bit more background: A couple of months ago, I sent an
email to Irish Rail complaining about the lack of announcements on the DART. I
received two emails back--one only in Irish which I cannot read and the other
one a rather technical report informing me about some stupid reason why the
announcements don't work. I then brought it up on the other mailinglist as a
new subject to discuss as I thought this would be of interest to everyone. When
I sent a letter to the Irish Times a couple of weeks ago, I again posted this
to the list. Unfortunately, I had to learn that this is something that has been
going on for months and years and that many people with a vision impairment
have already complained to Irish Rail with no success. I then encouraged
everyone to send in a letter like myself to make it a really big thing in the
Irish Times. That's how it all started. We tried to get together to do
something.
I would strongly encourage everyone to join the other list. The things that are
discussed there are of interest to everyone with a vision impairment, I think.
Of course that's only my personal opinion, and when people feel for whatever
reason that they don't want to join, that's of course fine and their choice.
Melanie
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----- Original Message -----
From: RobbieS
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 3:52 AM
Subject: [vicsireland] irelandvipnews
Hi all,
Apologies for continuing a subject which does not strictly belong on the vics
list, but perhaps this could reduce such non-relevant matters arising in the
future.
The Ireland Vip News list has 122 members. It is completely open to
interested participants or readers and it is costless.
There are two ways to join:
1. Email irelandvipnews-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx subscribe in the subject line.
Reply to the confirmation message. All subscription requests are welcome. I am
currently acting as moderator and would be delighted to expedite such requests
- as would John Carrol who is currently on six week leave.
2. This is a way I'm not familiar with because I haven't done it, but
apparently, if you go to http://lists.ie/mailman/listinfo/irelandvipnews
there should be a means of requesting a subscription.
The list is open to reporting news and exploring ideas related to vision
inmapirment. Like any mailing list, not every subject will be relevant or
interesting to every reader, but we all take the rough with the smooth, and
overall, 122 people seem to think it is worthwhile. I suspect there would be
thousands of subscribers if the subscription information were more publicised.
The railway announcements campaign was germinated and co-ordinated on
IrelandVipNews. it was an organic campaign with no leaders (although Martin
O'Sullivan did the lion's share of the work). The campaign was the sum of its
members, ans more members and imput are always welcome.
This is my outreach for the week. If someone can't be bothered to sign up
because of some preconceived notion or some chip on shoulder, I am genuinely
sorry to see that.
Regards to all,
Robbie
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