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• WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME?

• HOW DO I SIGN UP?

• HOW DO I SEND A MESSAGE TO A LIST?

• HOW DO I CHANGE MY E-MAIL ADDRESS OR GET OFF A LIST?

• FAQs (Frequently-Asked Questions) About Beth Emeth and Yahoo Groups

• WHO CAN I CONTACT FOR HELP?

                   

WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME?

• Sign up for "Announce" & you'll get the latest news & info. about CBE activities, every week.  "Announce" is used only for official CBE announcements.  Generally only one or two messages are sent per week, including a list of upcoming events and urgent announcements of an illness or a shiva minyan. You must subscribe to the list (see below) to receive these messages.

• Check out other lists  that let you be part of CBE mini e-communities.  Just a few are:  "relschool", "beecc-announce", "mensclub", "sisterhood", "discuss", "israel-discuss", etc.  See below for instructions on how to get more information and sign up.

HOW DO I SIGN UP?

• FOR THE WEEKLY ANNOUNCEMENTS LIST, we recently changed to a program called Constant Contact so we can deliver more professional-looking bulletins to you each week.  To join this list, go to this link and fill in your email address and click "submit", then follow the instructions:
  http://visitor.constantcontact.com/email.jsp?m=1101857095847

• FOR ALL OTHER LISTS, we use Yahoo Groups to manage the lists.  To join each mailing list: see the chart below for specific instructions for each list. Generally there are 3 steps:

  • Send a blank email to LISTNAME-subscribe@yahoogroups.com (where LISTNAME is cbe-va-announce or cbe-va-discuss or cbe-va-sisterhood or whatever).  Don't forget the "-subscribe" in the address, or  your request will get ignored by the system.

  • Wait to get an acknowledgement back. It will ask you to confirm your list subscription.

  • Click REPLY and SEND. You're done!

  Some people are "power Yahoo Groups users" and will want to join the group instead of joining the list, which allows you to use more of the functions of this service. However our groups are unlisted so we won't get nasty spam.  So to join the group you'll need to send a message to Jeremy Epstein with the listnames you want to join; he will send you invitations that will allow you to choose the "Join the group" option. 

HOW DO I SEND A MESSAGE TO A LIST?

• See chart of Yahoo Groups lists below; each one has a different address.

• To request that an urgent message be sent to the Announce list, send the message to
  cbe-va-announce-owner@yahoogroups.com .  This will go to the moderator, who confirms the urgency before sending it out.

• To send a non-urgent item to the Announce list, you can send it to office@bethemeth.org and request that it be included in the week's Announcements.  Weekly deadline is Tuesday noon for the Announcements that are sent out Thursday evening.

HOW DO I CHANGE MY E-MAIL ADDRESS ?

• To change your address in the Weekly Announcements list (Constant Contact), click on the "join the list" button on any of the messages you receive. Enter the email address that is currently subscribed and click on "Submit," then follow the instructions.

• To change your address in Yahoo Groups:

  • If you are subscribed to the list only (not a "Yahoo Groups member"), unsubscribe with your old address and then re-subscribe with your new address, for each list.  Here's how:

    (1) send an e-mail from your old address to: listname-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com (fill in the "listname")
    (2) wait for the acknowledgement
    (3) click REPLY and then SEND
    (4) send an email from your new address to listname-subscribe@yahoogroups.com  (fill in the "listname")
    (5) wait for the acknowledgement
    (6) click REPLY and then SEND

  • If you are a Yahoo Groups member, just log in and edit your Yahoo Groups membership.  To receive different groups at different e-mail addresses, go to "My Groups" page.
     

WHO CAN I CONTACT FOR HELP?

• If you have any trouble with or questions about any of the lists, please contact Jeremy Epstein.

Congregational Lists:

Committee Lists (invitation only):

You must be a member of these groups to send messages to them. If you are not a member of a committee but want to send a message to it, send the message to the list owner (listname-owner@yahoogroups.com), and that person will forward the message to the list if appropriate.

If you think you should be on one of these lists but have not received an invitation to join, send an e-mail to: listname-subscribe@yahoogroups.com .  Be sure to send it from the e-mail address that you want subscribed.

• Board -- List name: cbe-va-board. List members only, send messages to:
  cbe-va-board@yahoogroups.com

• Chai School Review Committee -- List name: cbe-va-chai-review. List members only, send messages to: cbe-va-chai-review@yahoogroups.com

• Communications Committee -- List name: cbe-va-commcomm. List members only, send messages to: cbe-va-commcomm@yahoogroups.com

• Executive Board -- List name: cbe-va-execboard. List members only, send messages to: cbe-va-execboard@yahoogroups.com

• Finance & Budget Committee -- List name: cbe-va-fin-budget. List members only, send messages to: cbe-va-fin-budget@yahoogroups.com

• Food Service Committee -- List name: cbe-va-foodservice. List members only, send messages to: cbe-va-foodservice@yahoogroups.com

• Fundraising Committee -- List name: cbe-va-fundcomm. List members only, send messages to: cbe-va-fundcomm@yahoogroups.com

• Gabais -- List name: gabaiim. List members only, send messages to: gabaiim@yahoogroups.com

• Hagbahs (certified) -- List name: cbe-va-lifters. List members only, send messages to: cbe-va-lifters@yahoogroups.com

• Membership Committee -- List name: cbe-va-membeship. List members only, send messages to: cbe-va-membeship@yahoogroups.com

• Men's Club Board -- List name: cbe-va-mensclubboard. List members only, send messages to: cbe-va-mensclubboard@yahoogroups.com

• Religious School Committee -- List name: cbe-va-relschool-comm. List members only, send messages to: cbe-va-relschool-comm@yahoogroups.com

• Religious School Curriculum Committee -- List name: cbe-va-relcurr. List members only, send messages to: cbe-va-relcurr@yahoogroups.com

• Religious School Working Group -- List name: cbe-va-rswg. List members only, send messages to: cbe-va-rswg@yahoogroups.com

• Ritual Committee  -- List name: cbe-va-ritual. List members only, send messages to: cbe-va-ritual@yahoogroups.com

• Technology Committee -- List name: cbe-va-tech. List members only, send messages to: cbe-va-tech@yahoogroups.com

• Youth Committee -- List name: cbe-va-youth. List members only, send messages to: cbe-va-youth@yahoogroups.com
   

FAQs (Frequently-Asked Questions) About Beth Emeth and Yahoo Groups

Q: Do I have to read all this stuff?

A: Only if you have questions about our mailing lists.

Q: What if I want to receive the message at both home and work?

A: Use the instructions above to join the list from both addresses.

Q: How will I recognize messages sent to me on these lists?

A: The subject line will start with "[Beth Emeth" followed by the name of the list.

Q: Will I get spam as a result of the Yahoo! groups?

A: No email systems are perfect, but Yahoo! makes a strong effort to prevent spamming. Your email address isn't put on a web site where someone can "harvest" it. Having said that, we can't promise you won't get spam. If you're really worried, create yourself a free email account on Hotmail or somewhere like that, and use it for email subscriptions. If you start getting too much spam on that address, you can abandon it and switch to a new address (and adjust your subscriptions).

Note that even if you get spam on an address used only for mailing lists, that doesn't mean someone gave your address away. Spammers do "dictionary attacks" where they try combinations of letters and words to guess addresses. The more obscure your address is, the less likely a spammer will guess it.

Q: Who can send messages to the lists?

A: Depends on the list. For announcement lists (such as announce and relschool-announce), only the Beth Emeth staff can send. For committee lists, any member of the committee can send to the list. The discuss and israel-discuss lists allow any member of the list to send a message.

Q: How do I send a message to a group?

A: Use the chart at the top of this page.  If you don't see the information you need, just send an ordinary email message to listname@yahoogroups.com (where "listname" is the name from above). If it's an announce-only list, or one open only to members of the committee, your message will be returned. In that case, send the message to the committee chair (if you know who that is) or the list owner (listname-owner@yahoogroups.com, and that person will make the decision whether to forward the message to the list.

As the lists are set up, they will all be listed on this page (http://www.bethemeth.org/newslist.htm)

Q: Why the silly "cbe-va" on the front of each name?

A: Common names like "announce" would be unavailable because someone else got them years ago; putting "cbe-va" on the front ensures that the list name is unique to us.

Q: Can I create a new list (such as for my Havurah or for a group I'm interested in)?

A: Sure! You can do it yourself, or send the name of the list, a one sentence description of what it is, and the initial set of members to Jeremy Epstein. I'll do all the work for you. After that, you can  manage the list yourself (you must have a Yahoo! ID to do that), or I can manage it for you.

Q: Where do I go to get more information?

A: Look at www.yahoogroups.com, or send your question to Jeremy Epstein!