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Important
new information about the mailing list and the directory.
The
WCA is testing a new feature to allow people to directly
sign up for our newsletter and to manage their e-mail
address. When a person signs up or modifies their
entry in the mailing list data base, they have the
option to be listed in the on line directory, when
we get it working, and to control the data that will
be included in their directory listing.
The following explains how it works:
By following the link below, you can sign up for the
WCA mailing list If you sign up, you will receive
an e-mail at the address you enter and you will have
to confirm, by sending back an e-mail from that address,
that you want to be added to the list. This feature
is to prevent someone from signing you up without
your authorization.
The minimum information we request for signing up
is your e-mail(which is how we index you), your name,
and if you want to be in the WCA online directory,
when we get the online directory working. We expect
to have it working early 1Q07.
If
you want to be in the directory, we encourage you
to fill in the rest of the information as it will
allow people looking at the directory to know more
about you. When the on line directory is working,
you will be able to modify data in your entry real
time.
Your basic sign-up will put you on the WCA main mailing
list for future meeting announcements. You can optionally
sign up for SIG mailing lists. Note, at this time
only the Metro SIG mailing list is supported. Other
SIGS have their own mailing lists and you have to
sign up though them. We expect that to change over
the next few months.
Finally, after you have signed up you will be able
to modify your information via a link that is contained
in every mailing. This link has a password that lets
you get into your profile and modify it as you wish.
We hope this new approach improves the accuracy of
our mailing list and we hope soon to have our online
directory project completed.
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