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<pre>Again we anticipate an eventful year!
Below is the annual reminder about the year end turn over of our archives.
Please tell your friends about Act-MA, information is at the bottom of every email and on our <a href="websitehttp://www.act-ma.org">websitehttp://www.act-ma.org</a>
Check out the local list of progressive radio shows. (click on the "Radio" tab on our main page or use the link below.)
<a href="http://www.act-ma.org/raadio.htm">http://www.act-ma.org/raadio.htm</a>
and the list of other event calendars. (click on the "Links" tab on our main page or use the link below.)
<a href="http://www.act-ma.org/links.htm">http://www.act-ma.org/links.htm</a>
(As always please send updates or corrections.)
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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.
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A reminder about act-ma 2012 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 2012.
<a href="http://act-ma.org/pipermail/act-ma_act-ma.org/2011/subject.html%3Chttp://act-ma.org/pipermail/act-ma_act-ma.org/2011/subject.html">http://act-ma.org/pipermail/act-ma_act-ma.org/2012/subject.html<http://act-ma.org/pipermail/act-ma_act-ma.org/2012/subject.html</a> <<a href="http://act-ma.org/pipermail/act-ma_act-ma.org/2008/subject.html%3Chttp://act-ma.org/pipermail/act-ma_act-ma.org/2010/subject.html">http://act-ma.org/pipermail/act-ma_act-ma.org/2008/subject.html%3Chttp://act-ma.org/pipermail/act-ma_act-ma.org/2012/subject.html</a>>>
The new archive for emails sent this year is
<a href="http://act-ma.org/pipermail/act-ma_act-ma.org/2012/subject.html%3Chttp://act-ma.org/pipermail/act-ma_act-ma.org/2012/subject.html">http://act-ma.org/pipermail/act-ma_act-ma.org/2013/subject.html<http://act-ma.org/pipermail/act-ma_act-ma.org/2013/subject.html</a> <<a href="http://act-ma.org/pipermail/act-ma_act-ma.org/2009/subject.html%3Chttp://act-ma.org/pipermail/act-ma_act-ma.org/2011/subject.html">http://act-ma.org/pipermail/act-ma_act-ma.org/2009/subject.html%3Chttp://act-ma.org/pipermail/act-ma_act-ma.org/2013/subject.html</a>>>
You may want to resend any notices for 2013 so it will be archived in the new
location for 2013.
The act-ma website will have links to both. If you go to
<a href="http://www.act-ma.org%3Chttp://www.act-ma.org/">http://www.act-ma.org</a> <<a href="http://www.act-ma.org%3Chttp://www.act-ma.org/">http://www.act-ma.org/</a>> and click on Archives in
the top row, it has links to both 2013, 2012 and the previous act-ma archive
on the Topica system, which go back to 2000.
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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%3Chttp://act-ma.org/pipermail/act-ma_act-ma.org/2007/subject.html">http://act-ma.org/pipermail/act-ma_act-ma.org/2008/subject.html<http://act-ma.org/pipermail/act-ma_act-ma.org/2007/subject.html</a> <<a href="http://act-ma.org/pipermail/act-ma_act-ma.org/2008/subject.html%3Chttp://act-ma.org/pipermail/act-ma_act-ma.org/2007/subject.html">http://act-ma.org/pipermail/act-ma_act-ma.org/2008/subject.html%3Chttp://act-ma.org/pipermail/act-ma_act-ma.org/2007/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.
<a href="Seehttp://www.act-ma.org/raadio.htm">Seehttp://www.act-ma.org/raadio.htm</a> information about those shows.
<a href="Seehttp://www.act-ma.org/post.htm">Seehttp://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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