Email Lists

The Web Committee is happy to announce that VFR has a new email list system that both replaces the Topica list and expands services.

After searching for the least objectionable choice, given the desire for a low maintenance system, the always looming budget considerations, and our feature requirements (most notably the ability to moderate the lists), we have set-up two moderated lists on Google Groups. One list is for announcements (announcements for the VFR community without cross-talk), and the other list is for discussion (cross-talking).

As with the Topica list you can have the emails delivered to you in a variety of ways: no email (read posts on the Web), abridged email (summary of activity), daily digest (all emails), and all individual emails. Plus, if you know how to, you can subscribe to the groups with an RSS reader (which would be particularly useful in the case of the announcement list).

Both lists are moderated by Bill Childs, as agreed upon. What moderation means is that you submit either a new topic thread or respond to an existing post (in the case of the discussion list), and Bill receives an email telling him a post is waiting to be posted.

For more information about the establishment of these lists, please refer to the blog post announcing their creation.