AGO Atlanta: ListServ Instructions

What is a LISTSERV and what is AGOAtlanta-L?
A LISTSERV is an electronic mail facility which allows you to participate in an electronic discussion group on topics of interest related to our membership.

Now chapter members can:
Directly submit notices of upcoming concerts, special services, etc.
Send questions to the membership on any topic
Keep the membership notified of special member needs or other announcements
As a member of the UGA faculty I am pleased to make this service available to the chapter.

List Owners” will be William F. Coscarelli, wfcmusic@uga.edu , and David Barber, d_barber@bellsouth.net

If you have any questions or problems about/with the list you can contact either one of us. We both would like to be notified if your email address changes in any way as the list will only allow you to post from your registered email address. Please note you can also have more than one email registered with the list.

Email address for posting messages to the AGOAtlanta-L list:
AGOAtlanta-L@listserv.uga.edu
(Note that there is no “E” at the end of LISTSERV and the email address is not case sensitive.)
The list is set up to automatically reply to the original sender of a message, otherwise everyone on the list would receive answers to a personal query and clutter up their mailboxes. With the variety of available email clients in cyberspace, please consider the following:
- If someone is asking for information for personal use, respond directly to that individual - please verify your response is NOT going to the list.
- If the person requesting the information feels the answers would be of interest to the chapter at large, offer to ‘summarize’ the responses in a follow-up email.
The list is currently set up to allow attachments to be sent with your email - Word.doc documents, PDF files, picture files, etc. Note that some members email clients might not accept attachments, so include contact information in the body of your email.
Please sign your emails with your name, and include a contact phone number, snail-mail address, name of your church/institution, etc. (Many won’t always have their Chapter Handbook.)
The list is a tool that the chapter can use to share information, communicate notices of a time-sensitive nature such as concerts or special services, or to gather information from the membership. PLEASE avoid communications that might incite a “flame war” - remember, let’s keep our communications civil.
Many good etiquette resources exist on the web and here are a couple of examples:

Netiquette by Virginia Shea. http://www.albion.com/netiquette/
The Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette By Arlene H. Rinaldi
http://www.fau.edu/netiquette/net/

Important information regarding YOUR email address(es):
- If you use more than one email address and wish to be able to send messages to the list, BOTH addresses need to be registered:
  ex.: wfcmusic@uga.edu AND wcoscarelli@charter.net
- If your email address will change IN ANY WAY please notify:
  William Coscarelli: wfcmusic@uga.edu and wcoscarelli@charter.net
  David Barber: d_barber@bellsouth.net
Currently new members will be added to the list by contacting William Coscarelli or David Barber at the above addresses. As we monitor the activity on the list for a while it may become possible for individuals to subscribe independently.
If you will be going on vacation or you have multiple email addresses registered and would like only your primary email client to receive messages, follow these steps:
- Open a blank email - leave the subject line blank
- Address it to: LISTSERV@UGA.EDU [not case sensitive]
- Type the following line exactly into in the body of the text: set AGOATLANTA-L nomail
  (do not include any signature information -- only the above line of text)
- Send the message - and confirm no subject [if you are prompted to reply]
- To reactivate your account, follow steps a-b and type the following line in the body of your message: set AGOATLANTA-L mail

For more information on NETiquette and what a listserv is visit the following websites:

AGO Atlanta Chapter

AGO Atlanta Chapter Listserv