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There is an email list for the Seneca Land District administered and moderated by Mike Nichols and Jonathan Foster. The list is offered through Yahoo Groups. You may wish to read the Yahoo Groups Privacy Policy and the Yahoo Privacy Policy.

To Join (Subscribe)

Send a blank email to <SenecaLand-subscribe[at]yahoogroups[dot]com>

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Visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SenecaLand/join .

To Quit (Unsubscribe)

Send a blank email to <SenecaLand-unsubscribe[at]yahoogroups[dot]com>

To Change Your Email Address

First things first: does the Society have your new email address? Take advantage of the Society's Members Only site to update your email address. Grab the latest Harmonizer for your "priority code" to get started. Changing your email address on the Society site does not change it for the Yahoo Group. Changing it for the Yahoo Group does not change it for the Society's records. Please do both!

If you still have access to the old address, you can migrate all of your Yahoo Groups subscriptions by yourself. The first step is to register with Yahoo Groups so you can log in to the web site. Once that's done, the process is to associate the new address with your account, verify it, and switch the groups to use the new address. This is spelled out on this Yahoo Groups Help Page.

If you no longer have access to the old address, you will have to ask the moderator to remove it manually. Send an email to <SenecaLand-owner[at]yahoogroups[dot]com>.

Recommendations for Effective Use of the Group

These are the opinions of the webmaster, and are not to be taken as rules. They are recommendations to help your message reach the maximum audience.

Stay on topic.
Do not send your message if it is not primarily of interest to barbershoppers in the Seneca Land District. If there is too much inappropriate content going through the list, people will unsubscribe from it. This decreases the audience for all future mailings.
Use an informative subject header.
Announce specifics. Which of the following would you find most helpful?
Put the most useful part of the email first.
Some mail systems chop messages that exceed a certain size. Some people will delete your message unread if they have to scroll down to get to the useful part. If you are forwarding an email, remove all headers and mention of previous recipients when possible.
Avoid sending attachments.
There is no attachment format that can be read by 100% of the group's membership. The closest format to universal is PDF, but that's still won't work for users of services like WebTV or MailStation. The same goes for word processor formats.
If you must send an attachment, include as much of the body text as possible in the email.
It may not format as prettily, but chances are good the text is the most important part of that attachment. Your message will reach more people if you include the relevant text in the body of the email.
Links to web pages should have explanations.
Most people will not click on links unless given sufficient motivation. Explain what's on the other end. Not all email users are web proficient, and not all mail systems are web capable, so it's important to include the relevant text of the web page in your email.
Further Reading
Microcontent: How to Write Headlines, Page Titles, and Subject Lines
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SLD Yahoo Group Page.
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