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Staff at www.StLawrenceValleySPCA.org are proud to announce the release of e-mail newsletters!
In an effort to bring you quicker service and to contain rising postal charges and manpower requirements in distribution of the paper newsletters we are making it available electronically.
You may choose to continue to receive the paper newsletter via the postal service, OR, you can switch to having it e-mailed to you, giving you the ability to read, peruse and even print if you wish, right from your computer desktop.
To sign up to receive the e-mail version of our newsletter, simply decide which e-mail account you wish to receive the newsletter at, and then, using that account, send an e-mail to:
Type “NEWSLETTER REQUEST” for the Subject.
You may add comments to the body of this e-mail if you wish, but it is not required.
Click SEND, and you’ve started the process. BUT IT ISN’T FINISHED YET:
Shortly you will receive a “confirmation” e-mail from the address you sent it to, and it will be addressed to the e-mail address you made the request from.
All you have to do when you receive this e-mail is to click Reply to send it right back to us.
When we get your e-mail, we’ll check to see that the Reply came from the same address the request came from, and you’ll be added to the distribution list for the newsletter!
We’re sorry, but: If you do not Reply to the confirmation e-mail, and from the same address you sent the original request from, you will not receive the newsletter.
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FAQs:
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WHY BOTHER WITH THIS CONFIRMATION STUFF?
Basically, we want to be certain that someone at the account we will send the newsletter to actually asked for the newsletter. By sending an e-mail to the address requesting the newsletter and getting a response to it, from that same address, we then know:
The e-mail address is a real and valid address, not a fake one intended to waste our time or flood our or your mailboxes. A lot of people like to play silly games like that.
Someone at that e-mail address actually asked for the newsletter. Sometimes when people get to feeling cranky, they’ll go around subscribing someone to every e-mail newsletter and mailing list they can find. In other words, no one signed you up without your knowledge this way.
Of course, you can remove yourself from our mailing list at any time. Simply send us an e-mail from the account where you’re receiving the newsletter to the address above, and we’ll match it to your records, and remove you from the list of recipients. Type unsubscribe in the Subject line. Again, this insures that you actually asked to be removed and someone didn’t do it without your knowledge.
If you should change e-mail addressers or ISPs, or your e-mail address stops working for any reason, you will be automatically unsubscribed after a number of failed attempts to send you the newsletter. If that happens and you still wish to receive the newsletter, simply start over again and request it as described above.
Therefore, if you can no longer access your old address, and forgot to notify us of the new address, simply subscribe again as described above.
Should you ever feel that you have been spammed by us, simply send a complaint to:
We will look into the matter and take any action necessary. We take spam VERY seriously and do not allow, condone or otherwise permit it in any way. We will always do our best to prevent spam.
The Website Manager supports and recommends the following spam related web sites for combatting spam:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spam
http://www.ftc.gov/spam/
www.spamcop.net
www.cauce.org
http://www.mail-abuse.com/enduserinfo.html
http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t607.html
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WHAT IF I DON’T RECEIVE A NEWSLETTER THAT I SIGNED UP FOR?
There could be a few reasons for this:
-- You changed your e-mail address and forgot to notify us
-- The e-mails are erroneously being sent to your spam folder.
-- You did not REPLY to the Confirmation E-mail you received; you only have to do that once, during the sign-up process.
-- If you never received a Confirmation E-mail, it may be that you mis-spelled your e-mail address on the request for change or other communication used.
-- You may have Replied to the Confirmation E-mail from a different e-mail address than you originally made the request from. The exact same address must be used each time.
-- Newsletters to addresses that bounce back to us (can not be delivered) more than twice in a row may automatically be removed from our distribution list.
If the bounce message from your ISP clearly states that your mailbox is simply full, we are likely to be more lenient, but please realize this could be why you didn’t receive the newsletter and that it is a situatio you must take care of. Many ISPs simply drop incoming e-mails once a mailbox becomes full. Contact your ISP for further information.
-- Feel free to contact
and notify us you are not receiving the Newsletter. In most cases we will be glad to send you another copy of it.
Thanks for your patience and understanding. The Confirmation Process we use is an important part of protecting you, and us, from receiving spam because someone subscribed you without your knowledge or a mail address has become abandoned, then used by another person, in which case the Newsletter would be reportable as spam to them. Our goal is to never allow your e-mail address to get into the hands of a spammer and at the same time protect ourselves against being accused of spamming, something we will never do. -- Web Site Management
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