Things get more complicated because people often use different email address for different things.
The email account associated with my LOPSA membership is the one I use where I expect infrequent emails for things of importance....such as things that want money from me, and its also the email address for my PayPal account. While I currently use my work email address for the LOPSA mailing lists, except Microsoft seems to think everything I get from lopsa is junk, and doesn't care about my accept senders settings, mail filters or that I've told 100's of times that these emails are not junk. I'm kind of getting around it by running a script to suck (pop) all my mail (includes junk and every sent message, including the ones it generates as sms reminders for calendar events) out of my account, rerun it through spamassassin and currently dump them into a maildir on my system at home and try to remember to read it. Originally I wanted to try pushing them back into my Office365 account, but couldn't get that to work....guess its still smarter than me on where my mail should go. Tried pushing into an email account with my web hosting provider....except that I have a dovecot folder structure...with folders both at the same level as INBOX and under INBOX (matching the imap that we used before we moved this part of the system into the cloud and what was used by our previous host.)...while my web hosting provider uses courier-imap (I've never noticed before because I've always pop'd mail out of those accounts as well.) I think tried pushing in gmail, to make a really big mess.....some times it correctly generated sub labels at the dot separate...other times it created labels with dots in them. The deep levels of folders is kind of reminiscent of USENET. OTOH, I opted to switch the email address of my Facebook account, to avoid Microsoft's hate of those messages, but I can't remember the last time I checked that account now. But, then there's the problem that I just get more email than I can find time to get to....there are some things where I'm really behind....like I have 127 unread messages in my folder for RISKS digests....so that's like almost 2.5 years behind? As for my LOPSA membership....its not that hard to remember....since I joined at a LISA (which is a few weeks after my birthday...) So, there's plenty of reasons to dread its approach.....a few years back they changed the anniversary dates for professional engineer memberships to be the member's birthday. Apparently, people have trouble remember the date they got their registration (Dec 14th, 1994), or that there tends to be periods where very few people get registrations and other periods where there will be a lot of registrations. (IE: where I was working/living at the time, they only did testing sessions twice a year...though after you pass you have up to 1 year to get things collected for application, like what you've done, what the professional members you worked under say you've done...need to have worked for at least two years as a member-in-training under one or more professional members. I had mainly been working as a research engineer, though when I had applied I was working in the real-time systems group, but when the partners had a falling out and the real-time systems group split off....I had to be returned to the research side. Along with contact information for peer professional members, and apparently its a bonus if they're from outside the company. I had several that wanted to do that. Seemed the instant I got my registration, I got voted in as treasurer for the regional branch of the professional association and full signing authority of the accounts. I also got bits of the auditors findings about the previous treasurer.... I recall a couple years after I had left, an ex-president asked if there'd be any chance I'd move back and be treasurer again. Not sure what to make of that....since they had slated in my former manager as treasurer.... Though I recall sleepless nights because a penny had gone unaccounted for....and my printing is a lot more illegible now. Also my USENIX membership also comes up for renewal around then.... OTOH, I'm completely spaced on renewing several memberships that are renewed around the first of the year....feel like I still missed a few, perhaps if I wasn't over a year behind on reading messages to the account for those memberships (they're associated with the various medical conditions I have...which have mailings more frequent than once a month....) Though I think I got the ones that use April 1st as start of their fiscal year. Don't think I belong to any that use July 1st, but there's at least one that uses October 1st.) And, some of them do get confused that my paypal account's email address is different than the email address I want to use for everything else with them. On 05/15/14 15:57, David Lang wrote: > This illistrates the fun with limiting the mailing list to members only :-) > > David Lang > > On Thu, 15 May 2014, Josh Smift wrote: > >> Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 16:34:42 -0400 >> From: Josh Smift <[email protected]> >> To: Lopsa Discussion <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [lopsa-discuss] paid members >> >> SL> Yup, I just checked, expired Dec 2007. Reminder would be awesome! >> >> 2006 for me. I had to update my *name* even. :^) >> >> -Josh ([email protected]) >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >> http://lopsa.org/ >> > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Sr. Unix Systems Administrator For: Enterprise Server Technologies (EST) -- & SafeZone Ally _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
