1. Feb. 2002 - SCV Spamming your way to High Meeting Attendance The IEEE Majordomo Server and more. Jonathan David

2. Feb’2002 SCV training E-mail Guidelines u Unwanted messages get ignored. o WE ALL hate spam. Keep it in mind. u IEEE Policy is o No Advertising o No Electioneering for IEEE or Government. u If you want employers to let your members get your messages – o NO Job Advertisements/ recruiters. Direct folks to the IEEE services available. u Plain Text is Universal.

3. Feb’2002 SCV training SSC usage u 1 email when Doug gets the Grid announcement. u 1 email 7 days before the meeting with this month and Nexts u 1 email reminder 1 day before the meeting. u 1/year get full membership list and invite to join chapter list & attend event.

4. Feb’2002 SCV training Services Available u Majordomo o IEEE pays = FREE o No advertisements. o Announcements or o Simple Discussion List u Aliases o Free to members o Transportable o Attachment virus chk o Forwards to 1 address u Yahoogroups o Ad supported o Group Calendar o File sharing area o Electronic Voting o Good for Officer lists, RSVP lists. u Evite o Ad supported, o Tracks & manages RSVPS

5. Feb’2002 SCV training What is Majordomo u Majordomo is a program which automates the management of Internet mailing lists. o Commands are sent to Majordomo via electronic mail to handle all aspects of list maintainance. o Once a list is set up, virtually all operations can be performed remotely, requiring no intervention upon the postmaster of the list site. u Majordomo controls a list of addresses for some mail transport system (like sendmail) to handle. Majordomo itself performs no mail delivery.

6. Feb’2002 SCV training Web Resources u http://www.ieee.org/organizations/vols/ http://www.ieee.org/organizations/vols/ u http://eleccomm.ieee.org/maillist.shtml http://eleccomm.ieee.org/maillist.shtml u Announcement Lists: o -chapt-scv ie ssc-chpt-scv@ieee.orgssc-chpt-scv@ieee.org u RSVP list: -rsvp-scv@yahoogroups.com u http://eleccomm.ieee.org/cgi-bin/majorcool http://eleccomm.ieee.org/cgi-bin/majorcool u http://bobalden.com/ti/ http://bobalden.com/ti/ u http://eleccomm.ieee.org/ http://eleccomm.ieee.org/ o demo1/ownerdoc.html demo1/ownerdoc.html o demo1/whatis.html demo1/whatis.html o email-netiquette.shtml