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<pre>We anticipate an eventful year!
The year end transition always produces a little confusion about our archives. Many people check them instead of getting emails directly.
If you click on the "current listings" tab on our web page, you will now get a choice of which years archives you want to look at.
We would like to make a special plea to act-ma posters to adhere to our month date format.
If you don't use it there is a good chance that people going to our site will miss your announcement.
Take a look at the 2008 archives.
<a
href="http://act-ma.org/pipermail/act-ma_act-ma.org/2008/subject.html">http://act-ma.org/pipermail/act-ma_act-ma.org/2008/subject.html</a>
Notice that most of the events for Jan are grouped together.
1/08 Event 1
1/10 Event 2
1/19 Event 3
Then notice that if you search you can find an event...
IWW Solidarity Benefit Sat. Jan 19 6pm <<a
href="http://act-ma.org/pipermail/act-ma_act-ma.org/2008/000830.html">http://act-ma.org/pipermail/act-ma_act-ma.org/2008/000830.html</a>>
but if you were just looking in the "January section" you would miss it.
Suggested Subject Line Format
m/dd (a good description of the event)
where m is the digit(s) for the month and dd are the digits for the day,
your event will get sorted in chronological order by day. This makes it
a lot easier to find out what’s going on today or tomorrow or on any
given day. It’s good the use the format 1/07 instead of 1/7 so that an
event with a one digit date gets sorted to the beginning of the month
instead of the end.
Several local radio show use act-ma to keep track of their event
announcements, so you make it much more likely that your event will also
get announced on the radio if you use this format.
See <a href="http://www.act-ma.org/raadio.htm">http://www.act-ma.org/raadio.htm</a> information about those shows.
See <a href="http://www.act-ma.org/post.htm">http://www.act-ma.org/post.htm</a> for more tips about the subject line
which is the most important part of any announcement.
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A reminder about act-ma 2009 archives.
The current version of act-ma archives emails by the year, so anything
sent last year will be in the archive below even if it is an event in 2008.
<a
href="http://act-ma.org/pipermail/act-ma_act-ma.org/2008/subject.html">http://act-ma.org/pipermail/act-ma_act-ma.org/2009/subject.html</a>
The new archive for emails sent this year is
<a
href="http://act-ma.org/pipermail/act-ma_act-ma.org/2009/subject.html">http://act-ma.org/pipermail/act-ma_act-ma.org/2010/subject.html</a>
You may want to resend any announcements for 2010 so it will be archived in the new
location for 2010.
The act-ma website will have links to both. If you go to
<a href="http://www.act-ma.org">http://www.act-ma.org</a> and click on Archives in
the top row, it has links for 2009 to 2007 by year and the previous act-ma archive
on the Topica system, which go back to 2000.
Charlie Welch
For Act-MA
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