Our E-mail Lists
Life Church Boston provides e-mail lists for our members, friends, and visitors:
Connect List
Exchange news, announcements, prayer requests,
job information, and other useful information.
Inspiration List
Exchange scriptures, inspirational messages,
poems, and other words of encouragement.
On
this page, you will find the following:
Social Networking Sites
Life Church Boston is also accessable via the following social networking
sites:
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
(Click on a question to see the answer.)
- How do I subscribe to an e-mail list??
- If you are a member, friend, or visitor to Life Church, you may subscribe by using the appropriate subscription box below:
Connect List
Exchange news, announcements, prayer requests, job information, and other useful information.
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Inspiration List
Exchange scriptures, inspirational messages, poems, and other words of encouragement.
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- How do I send e-mail to a list?
- Only subscribers (list members) may send email to a list.
In general, you do this by addressing your email to:
listname@community.lifechurchboston.org
Where "listname" is replaced by the name of the list you want to use (i.e.
"Connect" or "Inspiration")
- How can I find out who else is on the list?
- Only subscribers can see list members by going to the appropriate list page:
- What do I do if my e-mail address changes?
- If your e-mail address changes, list email will continue to go to the address that you originally subscribed. You must subscribe your new email address to the list by using the appropriate subscription form (see "How do I subscribe to an e-mail list??" above).
- Can I use more than one e-mail address?
- Any email address that you intend to use for sending email to a list must be subscribed to that list. You may, for example, have both a personal e-mail address and a work e-mail address. If only your personal address is subscribed to a list and you try to send list email from your work address it will be rejected. There is no restriction on how many email addresses you can subscribe. You will have to subscribe each address individually (see "How do I subscribe to an e-mail list??" above).
- Will list e-mail go to all of my addresses?
- Initially, each email address that you subscribe will receive email from the list. You can change this if you like. You may, for example, have both a personal e-mail address and a work email address subscribed to a list. If you want to receive list e-mail on your personal e-mail address but not on your work email address you can easily do this from the appropriate list page:
- How do I unsubscribe from a list?
- Follow the unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of any list email you have received. Alternatively, you can unsubscribe from the list home page:
- Can I use Evite with a church email list?
- Yes, Evite has set up a way for you to send to an email list. Please check out the following web page for instructions:
How do I send an Evite invitation to a distribution list or group address?
- Why must I follow special instructions to send an Evite to an email list?
- Evite is a
convenient web-based tool that allows you to manage invitations to parties and other events. The Evite
web site allows you to upload a description of your event (including purpose, time, location, and other
important information) and then upload a list of names and corresponding email addresses for people
that you wish to invite. Evite then creates a web page for your event. When you click on the "send
invitations" button, the service sends an email to all of the people on your list announcing the event.
- Each invitation email contains a link back to the event web page. When the recipient clicks on this
link he/she is taken to the web page and given an opportunity to accept or decline the invitation. If
you make the guest list public, then recipients of your invitation will also be able to see who else
has accepted or declined your invitation.
- You must understand one important fact about the way Evite works if you want
to send an invitation to a church mailing list. The link in each invitation email
contains a special code that uniquely identifies the event and the recipient. This
allows Evite to "know who you are"
when you click on the link. If you try to send an evite to a list however, this fact
can work against you.
- Let's say that you set up a party in Evite and you include in your guest list: "Life Church" <connect@list.lifechurchboston.org>
- The Evite service can't distinguish this from a person named "Life Church". When the
invitations go out Evite will generate a code for "Life Church" and it will include this
code in the link that goes to the connect list address. Of course this email will be sent to the
connect list which will send it to all of the connect list subscribers. Everyone who clicks on the
invitation link will be identified as "Life Church". The first person to respond to the
invitation will be responding as "Life Church" and so will everyone else. Instead of seeing
a number of responses for individual members of the list, you will see only a single response for
"Life Church" that will reflect whatever decision the most recent recipient made.
- In order to avoid this problem Evite has set up a way for you send to an email
list. Please check out the following web page for instructions:
How do I send an Evite invitation to a distribution list or group address?
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Guidelines
Life Church email lists are NOT to be used for rumors,
hoaxes, urban legends, or chain letters. Check out our rumors
page for more information.
You may receive an email warning you about some urgent problem and encouraging you to pass the warning on to everyone you know. These "electronic rumors" can spread widely and may cause unnecessary panic and even harm. Because email is so easy to redistribute, both true and false information circulates on the internet very quickly. By asking yourself questions and doing some research before hitting that "send button", you can help minimize the level of false information circulating.
(Click on a topic to see the details.)
- Questions to Ask Yourself
- Does the email make sense?
- Does the person who sent the email know for certain that what's in it is true?
Relying on someone who relies on someone who relies on someone else can leave you
in a shaky position.
- Does the person who sent the email have enough expertise to verify what's in the email? Beware of "False Attribution Syndrome"!
- Does the email provide some easy way to check it for validity. Is there a name of a person or organization or a phone number? If so, call them.
- Can you think of some simple way to check out the information? Perhaps a local or federal agency? A newspaper? Try asking one or two other folks you know if they can help.
- If you do decide to distribute the email make it clear to all of the recipients whether or not you did any independent checking and what you discovered.
- If we send you any such email. Don't take our word for it! Check it out for yourself! If you plan to stay on the internet for the next several years this will prove to be a good habit.
- If you don't have the time to check it out, don't be in a hurry to send the email out. Wait until you have time to investigate. If something is a really serious and urgent issue, it will probably find its way to the rest of the internet without you, so don't feel as if you're the only one who can get the information out.
- Research the Information
- One way to get quick information about warnings that you get via email is to use an internet search engine such as Google, Yahoo, and Alta Vista. Enter some of the text from the email and see what comes up.
- You can also check out the following sites to see if the email you received has already been recognized as a hoax.
- Break the Chain: Stop Junk E-Mail and Misinformation This web site was set up to educate and inform people about chain mail circulating on the internet.
- F-Secure Virus Hoax Warnings Page Lot's of good information and web links.
- HOAXBusters - A Public Service of the U.S. Department of Energy
- Scambusters - Urban Legends
- Snopes.com - Urban Legends Reference Pages
- Vmyths.com - Truth About Computer Virus Myths & Hoaxes Lot's of good information and web links.
- Urban Legends and Folklore
- YAHOO Urban Legends Page This page contains information about many if not most of the myths and rumors that circulate on the internet from time to time along with authoritative information about their origins. You've probably already heard or seen some of them!
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Mailman
For more information about Mailman, the software that supports our e-mail/discussion list, visit:
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