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Version 1/9/2008

Automatic Join & Reminder Message

[ScrantonDance] Yahoo Group

Dear [ScrantonDance] Member,

Thanks for being a part of the [ScrantonDance] email network.

This message is sent to all subscribers upon joining, and periodically thereafter to the entire list. If this message hasn't been updated since the last time you read it, feel free to move on to the next post.

 

If you're new to the group or want a quick refresher on how this email group works, please read on! This message contains essential knowledge for all members and will answer MANY common new-user questions, so please take the time to read it through.

 

If you have any questions about any of the below information

please telephone me using the contact info at the end of this message.

 

Sections Below:

1. Introduction

2. Unsubscribing

3. Re-Subscribing (when your address changes)

4. Additional Listserver Information

5. How You Can Help 'Grow' This Listserver

6. Contacting the Volunteer Workers

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== 1. INTRODUCTION

 WELCOME to the "ScrantonDance" Yahoo! Groups,

( aka 'Scranton DanceNet' aka 'JoyceNet' ).

 

This file is being automatically sent to you by the Yahoo eGroup Listserver

because you have joined -- or else a moderator has added your name to the group.

 

IDENTIFICATION -- All announcements you receive will be identified by the 'subject tag'

[ScrantonDance] at the beginning of the subject line.

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WHAT'S A LISTSERVER??

A Listserver (aka Yahoo eGroup) works similar to a newspaper.

When an announcment is sent,

the Listserver automatically distributes it to all 'subscribers'.

 

This group sends email announcements for ballroom, swing, and

sometime singles dance events for the Scranton Pennsylvania area.

 

It's an ideal system, because:

• it's FREE to both announcers and readers
• People can SUBSCRIBE and UNSUBSCRIBE themselves as they wish
  • Thus NOBODY should be receiving announcements that does not want them.
• It automatically creates a 'web archive page' of each announcement, that can be viewed by ANYBODY from any browser from any computer anywhere.

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== 2. UNSUBSCRIBING

You can UNSUBSCRIBE from this group any time

you no longer want to receive these announcements.

 

You simply send a blank email (no subject, no body)

to the 'unsubscribe address',

scrantondance-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com .

Then just hit the 'Reply' button in response to the confirmation request that Yahoo will send you.

 

This 'unsubscribe address' will also be in the 'Moderators Notes

at the bottom of every email you receive from the Listserver. 

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== 3. RE-SUBSCRIBING (WHEN YOUR ADDRESS CHANGES)

You can also SUBSCRIBE a new address to this group any time.

 

You simply send a blank email (no subject, no body)

to the "subscribe address"

scrantondance-subscribe@yahoogroups.com .

Then just hit the "Reply" button in response to the confirmation request that Yahoo will send you.

 

This 'subscribe address' will also be in the 'Moderators Notes

at the bottom of every email you receive from the Listserver. 

 

Please try to do this 'resubscribing' process yourself. It's not that difficult.

If you ask a volunteer to do it for your, then they have to stop what they are doing, and essentially spend time "digitally wiping your rear end" for you.

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Options (If you belong to more than 1 Yahoo group)

Alternate Method 1: Yahoo ID -- Note that if you belong to multiple Yahoo groups

and your email address changes, you can update the address ONCE in Yahoo,

rather than having to unsubscribe and resubscribe to several groups.

 

(To do this, you first need to get a Yahoo ID, then "link" it to your actual email address using your Yahoo "Profile".

 

Alternate Method 2: Gmail Address -- Another method is to get a free Gmail address from Google (Gmail.com), and subscribe it to any Yahoo groups you belong to. Then you can forward the Gmail address to your actual address.

 Then if your actual address changes, you just change the forwarding address ONCE in Gmail, and all your Listserver messages are now forwarded to your new address.

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== 4. ADDITIONAL LISTSERVER INFORMATION

ANNOUNCE ONLY --

This group is set up to be 'announce only',

so only 'approved announcers' can post announcements.

I.e., it is not a discussion group.

 

MESSAGE ARCHIVES --

The Yahoo Listserver automatically stores an 'archive copy' of every announcement sent in the "Message Archives", which you can browse by going to the 'Listserver Home Page'

( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrantondance ) ;

then use the 'Messages' link in the left menu bar to view messages.

 

ADDITIONAL SCRANTON INFO:

A list of Scranton-area dance studios and telephone numbers

is on the Scranton Dance web pages at ScrantonDance.com

LISTSERVER HELP & OTHER INFO

 

HELP -- Additional information on how the Listserver operates

is on the 'Listserver Help' web page .

 

OTHER LISTSERVERS -- Additional information for all Listservers for this

Central Pa region that you can either join or just browse the announcements

(Allentown, Harrisburg, Lancaster, North Central Pa, and Scranton)

is on the 'Listservers' web page.

 

CONTACT INFO -- Contact Information for many dance groups in the Central Pa region

is available on the 'Track2.com DanceNet' web pages at BallroomDances.net

and SinglesDances.net.

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== 5. HOW YOU CAN HELP 'GROW' THIS LISTSERVER

Any time you attend a new event you saw on this Listserver,

where you have not been before and are a "new face",

please tell the organizers

"I saw your announcement on the Listserver",

so that they know their announcements are being seen.

 

Encourage your friends to subscribe themselves.

The larger the membership, the better the chances that

publicity people will be motivated to use the Listserver.

 

This should be a "win-win". The more you motivate the announcers,

the more events you'll have to choose from.

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== 6. CONTACTING THE VOLUNTEER WORKERS

OWNER: All supervising of this Listserver,

and payment of the domain name ScrantonDance.com,

is done by Joyce Knott ((570) 940-4014 days) of Scranton, Pa.

All supervisory & management type questions should be addressed to Joyce.

 

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ASSISTANT: I (James Ingram in Williamsport) am a "Listserver Moderator" and

help maintain this Listserver as an assistant to Joyce.

Any questions not answered by this message,
please email me a telephone number
where I can call you preferably after 9 pm on my cell phone,

or leave a message on my below voicemail number.

(I do not like trying to conduct discussions by typing lots of email.)

 

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THANKS, Listserver Moderator, James R. Ingram, Williamsport PA

Voicemail/landline: (570) 322-7597.

Email address at bottom of Track2 Home Page

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