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Readers Digest version (for those not
familiar/comfortable with tech stuff): 1 When you reply to messages, the reply will be broadcast to everyone in the list. 2 Keep messages brief 3 Create a rule, or filter, in your email client (e.g. outlook, outlook express, eudora, thunderbird, etc) to keep these messages from "clogging up" your inbox [The way to set this varies based on your email client - look in the help files for instructions] Scott Voichoskie wrote: Hey everybody, Some of you do not know me but I have been tasked with being the POC for a mission that John Heida is trying to implement regarding C-182 familiarization. More on that later. In that effort there was a "clunky" way of communication whereby people would just send out broadcast e-mails hoping they would catch everyone involved. I hopefully have fixed that problem. I have set up a LISTSERV for the Omaha Composite of the Nebraska Wing of Civil Air Patrol. A LISTSERV is an automated system that allows people to send e-mail to one address, whereupon their message is copied and sent to all of the other subscribers to the mailing list. In this way, people who have many different kinds of e-mail access can participate in discussions together. The message you are reading now came across in your subject line as [Civil Air Patrol] Welcome. Here is the process I did to get this message to all of you. I used my e-mail client, in my instance that is Microsoft Outlook. I just clicked on "New" message and typed 'cap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' (please remove the apostrophe's when typing it in the box) in the "To" box. For the subject line I simply typed in 'Welcome'. The LISTSERV added on the [Civil Air Patrol] tag in the subject line. Using that one e-mail address I could broadcast to all of you. In that same manner you can simply press reply to reply to all the members in the LISTSERV. When you need to start a discussion with a different subject please just open a new message and type the subject you want and just send it to 'cap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'. I would encourage you to set up a folder titled CAP or something like that in your e-mail and group those messages by subject that way you can keep them organized and it will seem less confusing. Attachments will be allowed for now unless I see it being a problem. Please keep this CAP task oriented and please do not forward jokes and that type of thing. Also messages should not be over 2 MB or so in size. I manually have to enter the e-mail addresses of those that are subscribed so please let me know if there is someone not getting these messages that should be. Also please let me know if you want removed from this list. I will get some messages out in a bit concerning Mr. Heida's training session but I don't want to send out convoluted messages. Let's try to keep things in a single subject and please put something in the subject line that is significant to the message. Please reply back to say hello!! PS-- for those of you that have questions regarding the LISTSERV and do not want to ask the whole group (remember any message you send goes to the whole list) you can e-mail me. My e-mail address is: ctyadm@xxxxxxxxxxxx Scott M. Voichoskie City Administrator City of Ashland 2304 Silver Street Ashland, NE 68003-1500 Voice: (402) 944-3387 FAX: (402) 944-3386 http://www.ashland-ne.com/ |
