It has been my observation that Parkinsn membership motivation is related
to wanting a question answered. Most folks have tunnel vision and refuse to
read anything that doesn't relate to their interest. The old saying, "You
can lead a horse to water..but you can't make him/her drink" applies to the
readership.
Periodic postings don't reach those folks. People don't relate P-I-E-O to
Parkinsn so they think P-I-E-N-O postings aren't meant to provide useful
information for them. If the list had an annual resubscription requirement,
only the core of Parkinsn, about 200 people, would remain from year to year.
The longer folks stay, and their memory wanders is the motivation of the
periodic postings.
Mail screening works but useful information is lost by those who are in a
fix and need to do something with their subscription.
The new breed of surfer and subscriber demands instant gratification and
detailed instructions while clear and concise and tolerated by veterans of
the net, are no longer suitable. The new folks don't get it that a machine
rather than a parkie or volunteer handles subscriptions. There are no
employees here.
I've tweaked the address of the page with the mail management buttons so
that it won't wrap in email and work to initiate your default browser and
go to the page.
The tweaked address for the P-I-E-N-O maillist page is:
http://parkinsons-information-exchange-network-online.com/parkmail/
Don't worry about the Notice page that appears, you will be taken to the
proper page.
Click on the button that applies to your Parkinsn mail option. When you
move the mouse over the buttons, a description of what the button does
appears.
What happens when you click a Mail Management button is your default email
program opens and the email is preaddressed and the appropriate information
is automatically inserted into the body of the message. With the exception
of the Subscribe button which requires a FirstName and LastName, the
commands are complete. Just send the message. Depending on the net, the
listserv or your email provider, an acknowledgement message from the
listserv will appear in your mailbox.
Requirements:
You must interact with the listserv from the same email address that you
used when subscribing. If you have changed ISPs, unless the mail settings
for the old ISP are still in your email program, it won't work.
Give the listserv a day to reply. If you are using one of the free email
addresses or AOL even though you click the send button on your email
program, your ISP may not send your message over the internet for hours,
minutes or days.
If you click on a Mail Management button and your email program doesn't
open or nothing is placed in the body of the message, your browser's email
settings are set wrong. If you use another browser also, try it.
[log in to unmask] Search the parkinsn archive online at:
http://james.parkinsons.org.uk
Catch the Parkinsn's List Online messages at:
http://www.parkinsons-information-exchange-network-online.com
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John Cottingham
