May 24, 2006
Note: This information sheet
is also available on the MCCPTA website and is summarized in a table, also found on the website,
entitled MCCPTA Listservs Summary Table:
MCCPTA maintains four
listservs. Two of them are currently open to all who wish to subscribe. These
two lists are called MCCPTA_Bulletin and MCCPTA_Delegates. A detailed
description of these two lists can be found in the attached document. You must make a
request to be added to either or both of these lists. Addition is not
automatic!
The other two lists are
MCCPTA_Board, which is for Board of Directors members only, and
MCCPTA_Presidents, which is for Presidents of locals only. Area Vice Presidents
and Cluster Coordinators may also request to be added to the MCCPTA_Presidents
list. MCCPTA_Board is the only list that allows attachments. Any materials
posted to the other three lists must be included in the text of the message.
There is one primary
moderator, also called the Listservs Committee Chair, for all four listservs
who handles all administrative tasks such as adding new subscribers, changing
email addresses, changing delivery options, etc. For the lists that are
‘moderator post only’, in addition to the primary moderator, there are other
people designated as moderators who have the ability to post messages. These
people are: for MCCPTA_Bulletin – the MCCPTA President, MCCPTA Vice-Presidents
and MCCPTA Secretaries; for MCCPTA_Presidents – the MCCPTA President and MCCPTA
Vice-Presidents.
Instructions for joining
MCCPTA_Bulletin and MCCPTA_Delegates can be found in the attached documents. As
long as they have provided the requested contact information, including an
email address (Blue Book information for locals presidents), new Board members
are added automatically to the MCCPTA_Board list as soon as they assume office
and Presidents of locals are added automatically to the MCCPTA_Presidents list
upon assuming office. Area Vice Presidents and Cluster Coordinators need to
contact the moderator to request to be added to MCCPTA_Presidents – they are
not added automatically. If you have assumed office and find there is a delay
in your being added to a list, please feel free to contact the moderator
directly.
It is important to note that
there is extremely minimal overlap in messages between MCCPTA_Delegates and
MCCPTA_Bulletin, but the same cannot always be said for the other lists.
Patti Twigg, Listservs
Committeee Chair, MCCPTA Listservs Moderator