<div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I must highly agree with what Allen just said. As being one of those people and even saying bluntly that I was out of it, I was plunked back in. Suddenly there are votes happening and I'm being deluged with stuff that I felt *completely* unqualified to participate in. I almost baled on the first day. I'm still unsure why I'm here.</div><div><br></div><div>Yes, the welcome message was also sent to unaffiliated members as I apparently am now.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope that helps at all,</div><div><br></div><div>D</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 12:59 PM, Alan Greenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca" target="_blank">alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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The flurry of un-subscription requests is attributable to two things
happening in close proximity:<br><br>
1. We have just recently finished compiling and verifying our lists of
ALS primary and secondary representatives. All of those who were not
already subscribed were added to the ALAC-Announce, and their respective
RALO list as well as the At-Large list. They received "Welcome"
messages, but perhaps did not understand why. I believe that unaffiliated
members of the RALOs that have them were also subsribed.<br><br>
2. A message about Board candidate questions and answers was sent out to
the At-Large, ALAC-Announce and all RALO lists resulting ins some people
receiving three copies. In retrospect, perhaps we should not have been
quite that enthusiastic in which lists it was sent to.<br><br>
According to the ALAC E-mail Guide
(<a href="http://tinyurl.com/ALAC-E-MailGuide-Sept2013" target="_blank">
<b>http://tinyurl.com/ALAC-E-<wbr>MailGuide-Sept2013</b></a>), ALS
Representative must be subscribed to the ALAC-Announce list and their
RALO list. At-Large is optional. <br><br>
All Welcome messages include an unsubscribe link. Due to the requirement
mentioned above, ALS representative should not be able to unsubscribe
from the ALAC-Announce list and their RALO list without staff approval,
but as it happens, that option is not currently set correctly and if any
of these people had tried to unsubscribe, it would have worked.<br><br>
In light of the present discussion, the ALAC will be reviewing the
mailing lists and their uses in the near future.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br>
Alan Greenberg<br>
Chair, ALAC<br><br>
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