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Email List FAQs
How do I get a password to
change my list options and access the archives?
How
do I access an archive of list messages?
What can I do if I am too busy to read all of the
discussions?
How do I sign-up
for a digest version? How do I suspend messages while I'm on vacation?
How do I filter mail using MS Outlook?
How do I filter mail using MS Outlook Express?
How do I filter mail using Eudora Pro?
What is the difference between the wic-community@womeninconsulting.org
list and wic-members@womeninconsulting.org list?
How do I get a password to change my list
options and access the archives?
If you
did not set-up a password when you subscribed, you can do so
by following these steps:
1. Go to the WIC
Community List Info page.
2. Scroll to the bottom
of that page to the "WIC Community
Subscribers" section.
3. Type in the e-mail address
with which you are subscribed to the list and click "Unsubscribe
or edit options."
4. In the page that appears, click the "Remind" button
at the bottom of the page. A password will be sent to
your e-mail address.
5. Come back to the WIC
Community List Info page.
6. Click the "Unsubscribe or edit
options" button again.
7. In the page that appears, type in
your password in the first text box and click "Log In."
8. Scroll
to the section "Your WIC-Community Password" and change your password
that is something easy for you to remember.
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How do I access an
archive of list messages?
You will need a password to log in to the archives. If you did
not set-up a password when you subscribed, read the FAQ
on how to get a password.
The WIC Community and Off Topic archives on Topica will be available
through the summer 2004. You can access those below. Accessing
these archives requires a Topica account.
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What can I do if I am too
busy to read all of the discussions?
You may set your delivery options to the digest version. You
may also use filters in your email program. See the questions
below
for how to set different
delivery options or to set filters in your particular email program.
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How
do I sign-up for a digest version? How do I suspend
messages while I'm on vacation?
1. Go to the information page of the list you want to set digest
for:
WIC
Community List Info Page
WIC
Members List Info Page
WIC
Off Topic List Info Page
2. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to the heading "WIC
[Community/Members/Off-Topic] Subscribers."
3. Enter the e-mail address with which you are subscribed to this
list. Click "Unsubscribe or edit options."
4. In the page that appears, enter your password. If you don't
know have a password, click on "Password
Reminder" near
the bottom. A computer-generated password will be sent to you.
5. Once you receive that password in your e-mail, come back to
the web page and enter the password.
6. Scroll down this new page to the "Your WIC-[Community/Members/Off-Topic]
Subscription Options" heading. The second option in that list
is "Set
Digest Mode". On the right hand side, select "On"
7. You can peruse the other options on this page (including changing
your password). Once all the changes you want have been selected,
scroll to the bottom and click "Submit Changes"
You are now set up with digest (or whatever options you selected)!
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How do I filter mail using MS Outlook?
1. From the 'Tools' main pull-down menu in MS Outlook, select
'Rules Wizard'.
2. The 'Rules Wizard' dialog box will pop up. From
the upper
right hand side of the dialog box, select 'New' to create
a new rule.
3. You will be asked 'Which type of rule you do want
to create?'. Select 'Check messages when they arrive'. Now click
'Next'.
4. You will be asked 'Which condition(s) do you want to
check? Scroll down in the upper window and check 'with specific
words in the subject'.
Then click on the underlined words 'specific words' in
the lower window.
5. A new dialog box will appear, titled 'Search
Text'. In the text entry box next to the words 'Add new:' enter
'(off
topic)'
without
the single quotes, and click the 'add' button. Next enter
'[off topic]' without the single quotes in the 'add new'
text field,
and
click 'add'. You may add any other variations you think
you might receive, i.e., '(off topic)'. In the lower
window of
this dialog
box, you will see a growing list of all of the types
of text that
this rule will look for. When your list is complete,
click 'ok'.
6. You may receive a warning indicating that you are
creating a rule that looks for multiple phrases, and
that this rule
won't work
with previous versions of Outlook. You probably don't
care, so click 'yes' to create the rule anyway.
7.
You will see that there is description of the rule in the main
dialog box now. Click 'next'.
8. Now you have to decide what to
do with any messages that come in labeled as off topic posts.
- If you want all off topic messages put in a special folder from
which you may read or may just delete later, click 'move it to
a specified folder'. (Skip to 8-2 if you just want to delete all
incoming off topic posts.
- Click the underlined word 'specified' in the lower window in
order to select the folder the off topic messages should go to.
A new dialog box titled 'Rules Wizard'. A list of your mail folders
will appear.
- Click on 'new' in order to create a new folder. A new dialog
box titled 'Create New Folder' will appear.
- In the 'Name' text entry box, label the new folder 'WIC Off
Topic'. The folder will contain 'Mail Items', so make sure 'Mail
Items' is selected from the second text entry box titled 'Folder
will contain:'. Select where you want this new folder to sit within
your hierarchy of mail folders from the third box, which displays
an overview of your mail folders. You may be asked if you want
to create a shortcut to this folder.
- Click 'no'. You will be returned to the rules wizard dialog
box, with your newly created folder selected.
- Click 'ok'.
- If instead you never want to read off topic posts, in the window
labeled 'What do you want to do with the message?' click 'permanently
delete it'. You will receive a warning that all messages that
match this rule will be permanently deleted with no way for you
to retrieve them.
- Click 'yes' to agree. If you don't like the idea, you can instead
click 'no' and choose to 'delete it' rather than 'permanently
delete it'.
9. Click 'Finish'. You will be asked to prioritize the order in
which any rules you have should be applied. Presumably if you've
bothered to read this far, you've never created a rule before and
can leave your off topic rule as the first one to be processed for
incoming messages. Click 'ok'. The rule will now be applied to incoming
messages.You can obviously get a lot fancier if desired, but this
should get you started!
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How do I filter mail using
MS Outlook Express?
From the main MS Outlook Express window (rather than an individual
email), do the following:
1. Tools > Rules Wizard
2. Select the "New" button
3. Select "Check messages when they arrive" and click
"Next"
4. Under "Which conditions do you want to
check" scroll
down until you see "From people or distribution list" and
check that box.
5. In the box below the top box, click on the words "People
or distribution list". This will let you specify that you're
interested in mail from WIC. Type directly into the box on the
right
hand side since WIC, won't yet be in your contacts. (Type in wic@topica.com
and then click OK.)
6. In the bottom box you should now see wic@topica.com
in the place where it used to say "People or distribution
list". If
it doesn't, go back to step 5 and try again.
7. Click "Next".
8. Check the top checkbox telling Outlook
that you want to move it to the specified folder.
9. In the box
below, click on the words "specified folder".
It will pop up a box where you can either select a folder, or create
a new folder by clicking the "New" button.
10. Click "Next"
11. You can then add some additional
conditions and filter on any words you choose.
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How do I filter mail using
Eudora Pro?
1. Click on Tools > Filters
2. In the lower left-hand corner
of the "Filters" window
that pops up, hit "New"
3. On the right hand side, at
the top:
- Under Match: choose "Incoming".
- For Header: choose "Subject".
- For Contains: type "WIC" (without quotes)
- Leave the next few fields as they are.
- Under Actions: choose "Transfer to"
- Choose a mailbox to transfer all WIC email to, or choose "New"
and create an WIC mailbox.
4 . Close the "Filters" window; hit "Yes" when
asked to save changes.
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What is the difference between
the wic-community@womeninconsulting.org list and wic-members@womeninconsulting.org
list?
The wic-community@womeninconsulting.org is
a free email list available to anyone interested in participating in this community
of independent consultants that extends throughout the Bay Area and beyond. Participants
in WIC Community who choose to join WIC as a dues paying member get added to
the WIC Members-only e-mail list called wic-members@womeninconsulting.org. Only
paid WIC members can post to wic-members@womeninconsulting.org.
We encourage all WIC Members to also join and participate in the
WIC Community list. To avoid duplicate e-mails, we ask paid WIC
members to post announcements or questions only to ONE list - either
WIC Community to reach the broad, extended community of WIC (including
paid WIC members) or the WIC list to reach only paid WIC members.
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If you have questions about list etiquette, email listmonitor@womeninconsulting.org.
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