The
success of our Sun Prairie Bands depends on the support of SPBB members. Please
sign up for the
email
lists that interest you so
that you are kept informed. Thank you!
Arrgg! I received one or more welcome emails from SPBB.ORG. How did you
get my
email address?
You have received a welcome email because your son or daughter is enrolled in a Sun Prairie High School band, using an email address provided during registration. Sun Prairie Band Boosters (SPBB) email lists are used mainly by SPHS teachers and staff, SPBB board members, or SPBB committee chairs to keep band member parents informed about band activities. Your email is kept private from the group -- PROVIDED you are not a poster to a SPBB email list. Please add emails coming from spbb.org to the "white list" of your spam filter so it doesn't block them.
How do I remove myself from an SPBB email list?
Please do not respond to the whole list saying "Remove Me!"
Look at the footer of every
email you receive from any SPBB email
list and follow the bottom link to edit your account. Every email sent
by any SPBB list has a footer similar to this
(it will be slightly different for each SPBB email list):
The management link in the email footer will take you to a web
page that contains an "Unsubscribe or edit
options" button near the bottom of it. Enter your email
address in the box to the left of that button and press it.
You'll be taken to a web page to manage your SPBB email list
account. You do not need to know or enter your password to
remove yourself from the list. Just press the "Unsubscribe"
button. You will be sent a confirmation email that you must
respond to in order to be removed from the list.
Please remember there are several SPBB email lists. You have
to repeat this removal step for every list you are a member of.
Also, some people are signed up to receive SPBB emails at
work and home. If you have more than one email address, it
may be frustratingly difficult to figure out _which_ email address the
SPBB list is using, as your email address is not the "TO:" (the main
addressee) of SPBB emails.
If all else fails, please contact listmanager@spbb.org with
your real name and ask to be removed.
I forgot my SPBB email list password, help!
My email address has changed, how do I change it on an SPBB email list?
How do I manage my SPBB email list account?
If
you want to edit other options for
your SPBB email list account, you will need your SPBB site email list
password. You do not need a password to remove your email
address from a list. This password is not your Windows login
password or any
other password you use for sending email or receiving email, unless you
took previous action to make the passwords the same -- a practice we
STRONGLY discourage!
If you forgot or lost your SPBB email
list password, read the question above about removing yourself from a
SPBB email list. On the web page you are taken to after you
enter your email address, will you will find a button labeled
"Remind," which will automatically email you your SPBB email list
password.
You can manage your account to temporairly stop emails, and to control how emails are sent and formatted for you. In general, unless you are a "techie" type, it is recommended you not mess with these settings. If you are having any difficulty receiving your SPBB list emails, or managing your account, email listmanager@spbb.org.
What email lists are
there for the Sun Prairie Band Boosters?
You
can find them all listed here.
What is the web address of the SPBB email web site?
We have tried to provide an easy to remember web page address of http://mail.spbb.org from where you can always begin all your SPBB email browsing. You need only enter "mail.spbb.org" (without the quotes) in most browsers.
What's with this security certificate notice I get when I access parts
of the mail.spbb.org web site?
Secure
connections are protected by security certificates and they provide two
functions for our email web site.
1) Encryption of the communication channel from you to the site.
2) Assurance that site is the one you think it is
Dependent on the security settings of your web browser, you may get a
security
pop-up. It SHOULD say something like "the site has identified itself
correctly."
If not, please email listmanager@spbb.org and let us know.
Since you receive a password to access your account, this prevents
interception no matter where you access the site from.
We will never ask for anything more confidential than an email and your
name! Make sure "mail.spbb.org" is the site displayed in your
browser's address line and the "padlock" is locked and displayed when
you are in the parts of this web site that ask for you to enter
information.
I'm new to the an email list, or my email changed, and I know I missed some messages sent to the list. How can I see the emails I missed?
Follow the "manage your account" link on the bottom of any SPBB email.
At the top of the web page,
there's a "visit the archives" link. You must be a member of
the
list you want to view, and you will need to enter your email and
password to view the archive. See questions above if you don't have
your SPBB email list password.
I don't want to receive SPAM from the SPBB list. What
measures are being taken to prevent this?
Preventing this is a major concern with our email lists. Indeed, this system reduces that possibility from previous methods of sending emails. Only SPBB board members or chairs may post to SPBB email lists. When a person attempts to subscribe to a list, we require human intervention before their email address is allowed to join the list. We will require a name to go with an email address, and new subscribers may be contacted to confirm their identity. Since posters never receive email addresses when they post a message to a SPBB email list, your email address will not be revealed to them, even if SPAM somehow gets through. Please see the next question.
Is
my email address ever revealed to everyone in the group?
Only if you are a poster a SPBB email to a list. It is not possible to
post anonymously. Usually teachers, SPBB board members, or chairs
can post.
Can I reply privately to the poster of an email sent to an SPBB email list?
Yes.
In most -- NOT ALL -- email programs, if you press your "reply button",
the sender's email
address will be automagically set as the
addressee. Please pay
attention
to the
"TO:" and "CC:" fields when you reply to emails from the group,
especially if you are a SPBB email poster.
What's the software that's used for the email lists and why the generic look to the SPBB mail web site?
Glad you asked! This
automated system uses free software from the great WWW that's called,
somewhat un-creatively, "Mailman." You can
learn more about it at this web address http://www.list.org
Though it is free, it is a very capable and an industrial duty application used by thousands of groups world-wide. The web interface design is utilitarian so it can be used by any group. It is software designed by geeks to be functional, not pretty.
I am a user of this email system. Is there a manual I can
read?
http://www.list.org/users.html
I am a committee chair administering a SPBB email
list. Is there a manual I can read?
http://www.list.org/admins.html
What are digests? Why can't I get this option to work with my
account?
This is a generic email list application. Organizations may
have email lists
where there are many postings per day, and people may chose to receive
all of the postings for each day in just one big daily email called a
digest. As this increases delays in
getting information out, and SPBB does not generally have more than a
dozen
emails a week, digest mode has been disabled on all SPBB email lists,
despite
what some generic interface messages may suggest.
I posted an email to a SPBB list. How do I know it was sent?
You will receive a copy of your message in short order. You are on the list -- every member of the list gets your message. After that, it's like any other email message. Delays and lost emails can occur, and are beyond SPBB control. We think this system is nice for posters, as they will receive their message back as confirmation something happened. This is more than you get with other email until someone actually replies.
If you do not receive any copy of your message within about 15 minutes,
contact listmanager@spbb.org.
You haven't answered my question in this FAQ. Who can I
contact to get my question answered?
Please help us to make our FAQ
more complete. Send your question to
listmanager@spbb.org.