Re: Email to MUG Members
Re: Email to MUG Members
- Subject: Re: Email to MUG Members
- From: Jim Foster <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:05:04 -0400
On 18-Oct-05, at 5:40 PM, Jerry King wrote:
You have a “tough” decision to make. Do you chase after those who
don’t track current technology or move on?
Well, I agree with your sentiment and I think that we DO pretty much
make it clear to folks that they need to have and give us their email
address if they really expect to stay on the same page with us re
club activities. We DO allow paid up members to request that we mail
them out a paper copy of the newsletter, but this is a handful of
paper and they know that they are getting a black and white copy of a
document that is in colour on the web, and that they are getting it
sometimes weeks after it was first available on the web. One of our
club members downloads each issue and has a quantity printed out to
use as handouts at each meeting. The meeting occurs usually about 10
to 14 days after the newsletter is first uploaded to the web. At the
meeting, our Treasurer/Member guy scoops up a handful of these latest
paper newsletters and mails them out to the snail mail group no
sooner than the day after the meeting, so the folks who opt for this
route know they are at a disadvantage.
Anyway, I guess my point was just that email does NOT capture 100% of
the members but, whatever the percentage is, it is even a bit lower
than that if we rely on a Discussion List.
Getting back to the idea of trying to use a dot-Mac Account, one of
the things I think I have discovered since I first started this
thread is that when you have finished Sync'ing your Address Book to
the dot-Mac Servers, you can indeed access that Address Book from a
browser, assuming that you have the id and password for the dot-Mac
account, but it seems as if the Groups you had defined on your Mac's
Address Book do not get sent over to the dot-Mac Address Book. That's
a major disappointment, especially because I have also not been able
to find a way to easily Select All of the Address Book entries and
put them into the BCC field of a message that you compose while on
the web-based Mail application. It actually appears to me that the
To, Cc, and Bcc fields on the web version of the Mail application do
not allow more than about 25 addresses to be put in for any one
message. Perhaps it's Apple's way to discourage spamming.
I will continue to investigate. Our club has only 50 to 60 paid up
members at the moment, so if we have to send out two or even three
copies of our messages, each addressed to a different group of
members, in order to get to everyone, it may not be too big a deal.
Jim Foster
President
Macintosh Users East [MaUsE]
http://www.mause.ca
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