eNews to SJCCC Members

Dear Chair Board,
Would you please use the alias "enews @ sjccc.org" when you want to send an email to the SJCCC Community? This way, Xiuli and I can handle the request without duplicating efforts/emails.

We now have close to 600 people in the email list now. We need to respect people's email rights as they are our family in Christ, and we also don't want to get into problem legally (there are government SPAM regulation) and with the Internet Service Providers (they don't deliver our emails if they see a lot of complains). After moving to the current ISP earlier this year, things are much better now, and our emails are being delivered. Here are some best practices/Suggestions:

• Please send us a subject line in English (Chinese do not display consistently in subject line)
  
• Please only send information that is directly related to SJCCC and of interest to most of the people
  
• Please address the community and sign your letter. We are not to WRITE the email for you, we are delivering. Think of yourself as the Shepard addressing your sheep. We are just your mailmen, mailmen don't write anything for you. :)
• If possible, please have both English and Chinese in the text. Many people can't read Chinese email (all Youth/most YAG, many older computers, and blackberries), and some people can't read English email (less).
  
• It's not good to have attachments, we can upload your attachments and send URL to it.
• Usually, try to avoid sending multiple emails per day to the community (our previous stated preference was 1-2 per week). We sent 4 emails in the last 2 days, and we see people unsubscribe when the volume goes up since some people may be annoyed. With this alias, we can try to regulate the flow to avoid this.
  

Thank you for your work for Christ and for the Community.

May God bless us to do His will,
+Tony