Hello, fellow mcn-l subscribers:
On behalf of MCN, thanks for bearing with us as we iron out a few
remaining post-launch issues with our new website and email
list-management system. As far as we've heard, the new site as such
is working well (but please let me know offlist if not!). Thanks
again to Dana Mitroff as former Web Committee chair, fellow committee
member Christina DePaolo, and Website Editor Margaret Kendrick for
making this so.
Our other transition involves mcn-l, which is now managed
out-of-house with new software. Most issues related to this change
were addressed before switching the live list over, but one more has
become clear from recent subscriber comments. Here's a related tip
and, for anyone who may be interested, a bit on the underlying issue.
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MCN-L USER TIP: To be sure your posts make it through to mcn-l rather
than bouncing back to annoy you, please post only plain-text email.*
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Here's why: as do many lists, mcn-l prohibits attachments, sparing us
all from various annoyances and threats. In its current and quite
zealous configuration, that filter interprets as attachments not only
.zip files, attached signatures, etc., but also HTML or formatted
text in messages--so plain text is the way to go for now.
We're sorry for any frustration this may be causing. As soon we've
re-formed our committee in the coming weeks, addressing this will be
a high priority. We'll keep the list informed of any such
user-centric changes as soon as they're in place.
best to all, and thanks for your patience,
Rob (MCN Web Committee member)
* Your email software may have a preference setting, and/or
individual message settings, to make outgoing mail "plain text"; or
when sending text copied from a web page or other document, you can
make it into plain text by first pasting it into a plain-text editor
(BBEdit, etc.), then copying it from there to paste into your
message. We're all hoping this workaround will be needed only for a
short while.
--
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Rob Lancefield [email protected]
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USA tel. 860.685.2965
Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu
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