Email Discussion for New Faculty Community

We're starting an Email discussion list (Listserv) for the Drexel New Faculty online community. 

We've begun the list because the DCAE fellows (those who are members of the community) said that most of them wanted "push" contact with the community rather than the current "pull" contact. 

In normal language that means that they wanted the discussion to happen via email rather than having to logon to the Drexel's VistaBB site.  That site, however, is still active and you're welcome to continue using it - we're not abandoning it.

To achieve this we've enrolled everyone in the email discussion list, having tested it first to be certain that you can:

• quit if you don't like receiving the list's emails.
• receive a daily digest rather than immediate copies of each discussion email. [We've set the default to immediate - you'll probably want to email me (see below) to request a change.]

How to Join in the email discussion

• Reply to any Email from the list, including this one.  That reply will go to the whole list.   Use the same address to start your own discussion topic with a new email. [Note that Listserv software is very picky about the email address.  If your email program uses a different email "from" address from the one that we sent to, an alias for example, we'll need to substitute that address - just tell me by an email to ME not the whole list (see below), we'll substitute the new one.]
• If you've decided to receive only a daily digest you might want to change the subject of your reply to the 'topic' you're specifically responding to.  That will inform your readers.

How to Quit or Modify Your Preferences

• If you're familiar with listserv software all the standard commands will work.  Unsubscribing is covered succinctly on IRT's information page.
• If you just want to email me with what you want (quit, substitute another email address, change frequency to daily digest) that's fine.  My Email (with punctuation removed to avoid spam) is
  James.Mitchell(usual punctuation)Drexel.edu

Security

Until we have difficulties this is an open discussion to which anyone can add themselves and post.  If the address gets out in the wild then we'll have to put in place annoying security procedures.  Let's hope we can avoid that.

Blog & Discussion List Overlap

We're posting this description to the New faculty community blog as well.  We will also be sending out prior and future blog entries as emails to the discussion list because it's likely that many have missed those blog entries.  The email discussions resulting from specific posts will not be duplicated on the blog.

Jim Mitchell - Editor