Email addresses

[MaryA]

Trying to ensure that all members received notification about the new times and venues for our meetings I decided to be super efficient and do a mailshot to all members. I am amazed at how many have not updated their email address after they must have changed it over time. Make it a New Year resolution that when you come to renew your membership you ensure that your email address is both valid and spelled correctly.

[dickiesam]

Trying to ensure that all members received notification about the new times and venues for our meetings I decided to be super efficient and do a mailshot to all members. I am amazed at how many have not updated their email address after they must have changed it over time. Make it a New Year resolution that when you come to renew your membership you ensure that your email address is both valid and spelled correctly.

I got my super efficient mailshot OK but a previous experience made me wonder how many would bounce!

[MaryA]

146 would you believe!! and I was surprised at who some of them were.

[dickiesam]

146 would you believe!! and I was surprised at who some of them were.

The thought has just occurred to me....
Is an redundant email address the reason why some posters don't respond to replies to their posted topic? They don't get the email notification that someone has answered their query/question etc because the notification has bounced off into the ether!

Might be a point to be made in the next issue of the journal?

[MaryA]

The Treasurer is going to put a notice into the next Journal.

It has come to my attention that some of our members don't use the same email address for the forum as they do to register - they don't realise that because you all have Usernames, the email address may be the only link between a forum member and a Society member and if they don't match we can't verify that they have already joined the Society - sometimes they get a bit miffed if they are reminded too, but it can't be helped.

[dickiesam]

A suggestion...
The Treasurer might include with the notice about updating email addresses a note to make sure their email client does not automatically divert into the Junk or Spam folder incoming messages with a URL in the message body .

Unless specified otherwise by the user many email clients will put any incoming message with an embedded image into a Junk folder and some will do it with embedded URLs as well.

[MaryA]

Well would you have thought my mailshot could have indicated spam? Apparently the one-name.org thought so and rejected it to one of our members.

[daggers]

All this is evidence of the great amount of work done behind the scenes for us members of the Forum and Society by MaryA and others.
As a long-standing member, though scarcely active in its affairs, I propose a vote of thanks to Mary and the unseen helpers for all they do for us.
Happy Christmas to them all (if I am not shot down by the 'too early!' or Scrooge brigade).
D

[Bertieone]

All this is evidence of the great amount of work done behind the scenes for us members of the Forum and Society by MaryA and others.
As a long-standing member, though scarcely active in its affairs, I propose a vote of thanks to Mary and the unseen helpers for all they do for us.
Happy Christmas to them all (if I am not shot down by the 'too early!' or Scrooge brigade).
D

Second that.

[big g]

I'll THIRD that .

[MaryA]

Well I wasn't expecting that! but thank you everybody and a Happy Christmas back to you all. I'm glad you are all here to share our successes throughout the year and wish you all a fantastically researchful 2015 too.