[TriLUG] how to contact SC?

[burnett at pobox.com]

Given that Greg states his email to the steering committee bounced, and 
that Chris's email to the steering committee asking where to send donation 
checks was rejected, I suggest that it might be a useful effort for 
someone involved with the steering committee mail address to investigate 
how and why people are receiving such negative automated responses to 
such legitimate, non-spam emails, including asking how to donate money to 
TriLUG, if those emails are actually being rejected or if they are being 
held somewhere.

Or we can accept that people trying to contact the steering committee, 
especially people not part of this mailing list and are therefore 
unlikely to know to use the SC members' personal email addresses, will at 
least sometimes get such responses.

regards,
Steve B

On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Greg Brown wrote:

> I get bounced when I try to send a message to the steering committee too.
>
> On 9/21/06, Tanner Lovelace <clubjuggler at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On 9/21/06, Matt Frye <mattfrye at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > This policy has not changed, but YES, the steering *does* gets lots of
>> > SPAM and it takes a lot of time to parse through what's in the junk
>> > bucket.  Sometime after the election, I changed the setting to "Hold"
>> > from "Accept" and took personal responsibility for checking the trap.
>> >
>> > If the list was set to "Reject," then this is indeed incorrect
>> > according to our policy, but I have just verified that the setting is
>> > now "Hold."
>> >
>> > > If the current SC has changed this,
>> > > then they need to publicize this fact immediately and also provide
>> > > an alternative contact mechanism.
>> >
>> > Again, the policy hasn't changed, but I welcome with alacrity any
>> > SC-related queries at mattfrye at gmail dot com .


>> So, basically, what you're saying is that if anyone wants to reach
>> the Steering Committee, they have to rely on someone
>> randomly checking the moderation queue.  I have a serious
>> problem with that.  What if you go on vacation or a business
>> trip?  What if it's something timely that the SC needs to know
>> (i.e. someone has hacked into the TriLUG servers and is spamming
>> the world)?  The steering at trilug.org e-mail address is there
>> for a reason.  It's the direct link between the membership
>> and the Steering Committee.  Any obstacle between that
>> is a problem.  Yes, I know it gets a lot of spam.  It did while
>> I was on the SC too.  You, however, seem to be using a gmail
>> account, and that does very good spam detection so I would
>> imagine that to be a red herring.
>> 
>> TriLUG is a membership organization.  The route between
>> the membership and the SC should not have roadblocks on it.
>> 
>> Tanner Lovelace
>> TriLUG SC Co-Chairman 2004-2005
>> TriLUG SC System Administrator 2002-2004
>> 
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