In a message dated: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 23:01:13 EST Bruce Dawson said:
>This is probably the address we should be giving out to people instead >of [EMAIL PROTECTED] - and is what should go on the web >page. I agree, let's make it so :) >I'm also thinking of some more aliases: > > vendors (for vendor information, meeting goodies, ...) > chairs (for all the chapter chairpeople and co-chairpeople) > treasurer (for any money info) > steering (for all steering committee members) > nun (for NUN things) > >Can anyone think of any others? Those sound good. I think you've covered all the bases here. >Are there any opinions on this subject other than mine? One thing that might be nice is to have an auto-response system set up. For example, I often get e-mail sent to me by people who "want to join" GNHLUG. I've crafted a faily complete pseudo-canned response to these e-mails welcoming them and then gently/kindly pointing them to the website for more info. I occasionally need to tailor this letter because I try to include the dates of the next 3 upcoming MELBA meetings. I think it would be pretty neat to have something on the website where people can choose to receive a "Welcome Letter" which is automatically generated for them with all this info in it. Additionally, people sending mail to "info@" could get the same e-mail. The only difference would be this. If you manually request a "Welcome Letter", that's all you get. Where as if you sent an e-mail to "info@" you'd get the canned response, but your e-mail (possibly containing questions) would get sent through to us. At which point we'd answer their specific questions. The auto-response could be automatically cobbled together from a template file and grabbing the next 3 upcoming meetings from the calendar (I think it's a MySQL backend). A simple perl script invoked by procmail should do just fine. Any comments?
