From rlcarr at rlcarr.com Thu Jun 4 10:35:32 2009 From: rlcarr at rlcarr.com (Rich Carreiro) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 10:35:32 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Town Meeting] Fw: Re: Town Meeting Members email address (fwd) Message-ID: FYI... -- Rich Carreiro rlcarr at rlcarr.com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 09:26:27 -0400 From: Diane Mahon To: The Arlington List Cc: Rich Carreiro Subject: Fw: Re: [arlington] Town Meeting Members email address After discussions/emails with the Town Manager, Town Moderater, Town Webmaster and Assistant Town Clerk, here's the *game plan* for collecting TMMs email addresses for the Clerk's Office the Town Website: The first 2 nights of Town Meeting, paper forms will be at the back table for TMMs to update all their info, plus add email if they like. The completed forms will be placed into a box for Stephanie Lucarelli (Asst. Town Clerk) to add to the existing TMM list she uses and that Joan Roman (Webmaster) posts online. After the first 2 meetings, Stephanie will send Joan the updated TMM list with emails. For the rest of Town Meeting the forms and box will remain at Town Hall and Stephanie will collect and tabulate any new additions at the end of Town Meeting. She will then give Joan the final list for her to update. After Town Meeting, TMMs can update their information by going to the R/A Center and Make a Request/Update Town Meeting Info Form. This will go to the Clerk, who will update the master list, which will then be sent along to Joan to update online. We are crafting a note for John Leone (Town Moderator)about this process and as a handout for TMMs so they have it. In the future, the Clerk will add a field for emails to the re-election form. For new TMM, adding an email field for when candidates take out nomination papers and update their master list accordingly. The key issue is that the Clerk maintains the master list and sends me updates as warranted. We are trying to establish annual times to do this to avoid a constant trickle of updates year round. Any other suggestions/comments are welcome. Take care, Diane p.s. to Rich: Could you post this info. to the TMM list you moderate? Thanks! From jones at carr-jones.com Thu Jun 4 11:43:30 2009 From: jones at carr-jones.com (Alan Jones) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 11:43:30 -0400 Subject: [Town Meeting] Fw: Re: Town Meeting Members email address (fwd) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: In my opinion, this is not a good implementation. Among other problems, it will create unnecessary work for the Clerk and Webmaster maintaining the address base, and it will expose private emails to spammers who harvest from web sites. If we do this, I recommend that each TMM create a new disposable address just for this use. The purpose of publishing TMMs' addresses is to provide constituents with easy email access to their representatives, which is a good thing. I propose an alternative in which 21 mailing lists would be set up, one per precinct, with an address something like Precinct14 at tmm.arlington.ma.us. Then request all TMMs to sign up and maintain their own private addresses on these lists. When constituents want to offer their opinion on an issue to their representatives, they would simply send to their precinct's list address and it will CC to their precinct's TMMs. Individual TMMs can initiate a private conversation in response as they choose, thereby avoiding group deliberation by email. Presumably the list manager would provide a high degree of spam filtering for the lists. -- Alan (Precinct 14) From brehrig at fieldspond.org Thu Jun 4 12:18:37 2009 From: brehrig at fieldspond.org (Brian Rehrig) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:18:37 -0400 Subject: [Town Meeting] Fw: Re: Town Meeting Members email address (fwd) References: Message-ID: <006301c9e530$1da47d80$58ed7880$@org> I agree with Alan. His suggested approach also has the advantage, for citizens, of offering a permanent email address they can use to contact their representatives. They don't have to check the website from year to year to gather up email addresses. Thanks to whoever's been working on this issue, and I hope it's not too late to consider this alternative. Best, ~Brian Brian H. Rehrig 28 Academy Street Arlington, MA 02476 h: 781.646.4625? w: 781.899.9990 f: 781.207.0374 c: 617.838.4767 ? ? ? -----Original Message----- From: townmeeting-bounces at arlingtonlist.org [mailto:townmeeting-bounces at arlingtonlist.org] On Behalf Of Alan Jones Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 11:43 AM To: townmeeting at arlingtonlist.org Subject: Re: [Town Meeting] Fw: Re: Town Meeting Members email address (fwd) In my opinion, this is not a good implementation. Among other problems, it will create unnecessary work for the Clerk and Webmaster maintaining the address base, and it will expose private emails to spammers who harvest from web sites. If we do this, I recommend that each TMM create a new disposable address just for this use. The purpose of publishing TMMs' addresses is to provide constituents with easy email access to their representatives, which is a good thing. I propose an alternative in which 21 mailing lists would be set up, one per precinct, with an address something like Precinct14 at tmm.arlington.ma.us. Then request all TMMs to sign up and maintain their own private addresses on these lists. When constituents want to offer their opinion on an issue to their representatives, they would simply send to their precinct's list address and it will CC to their precinct's TMMs. Individual TMMs can initiate a private conversation in response as they choose, thereby avoiding group deliberation by email. Presumably the list manager would provide a high degree of spam filtering for the lists. -- Alan (Precinct 14) _______________________________________________ townmeeting mailing list townmeeting at arlingtonlist.org http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/townmeeting From dianemahon at comcast.net Thu Jun 4 12:45:06 2009 From: dianemahon at comcast.net (Diane Mahon) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:45:06 -0400 Subject: [Town Meeting] Fw: Re: Town Meeting Members email address (fwd) References: Message-ID: <003201c9e533$d1124ca0$6601a8c0@hsd1.ma.comcast.net> Alan, Good points. Also, submitting any email address is voluntarily and definitely not required. This came from several requests that along with the name and mail address of TMMs, that if email addresses could be provided, as well. The Clerk and Webmaster have been working on this for 3 or so weeks, and this is their draft plan. I'll make sure we stress the point that this is not a requirement of any TMM. Also, someone else suggested the point you made about *precinct-only* requests and I'll be sure to pass it along. Right now, any resident and/or Arlington business owner can get all the home mail addresses for all TMMs on labels. Your fellow TMM Precinct 14, Diane ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Jones" To: Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 11:43 AM Subject: Re: [Town Meeting] Fw: Re: Town Meeting Members email address (fwd) In my opinion, this is not a good implementation. Among other problems, it will create unnecessary work for the Clerk and Webmaster maintaining the address base, and it will expose private emails to spammers who harvest from web sites. If we do this, I recommend that each TMM create a new disposable address just for this use. > > The purpose of publishing TMMs' addresses is to provide constituents with easy email access to their representatives, which is a good thing. I propose an alternative in which 21 mailing lists would be set up, one per precinct, with an address something like Precinct14 at tmm.arlington.ma.us. Then request all TMMs to sign up and maintain their own private addresses on these lists. When constituents want to offer their opinion on an issue to their representatives, they would simply send to their precinct's list address and it will CC to their precinct's TMMs. Individual TMMs can initiate a private conversation in response as they choose, thereby avoiding group deliberation by email. Presumably the list manager would provide a high degree of spam filtering for the lists. > > -- Alan (Precinct 14) > > _______________________________________________ > townmeeting mailing list > townmeeting at arlingtonlist.org > http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/townmeeting From dianemahon at comcast.net Thu Jun 4 12:45:53 2009 From: dianemahon at comcast.net (Diane Mahon) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:45:53 -0400 Subject: [Town Meeting] Fw: Re: Town Meeting Members email address (fwd) References: <006301c9e530$1da47d80$58ed7880$@org> Message-ID: <003e01c9e533$ed4b5600$6601a8c0@hsd1.ma.comcast.net> Brian, I'm on it....and with me, it's *usually* never too late :-) "d" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Rehrig" To: Cc: Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 12:18 PM Subject: Re: [Town Meeting] Fw: Re: Town Meeting Members email address (fwd) I agree with Alan. His suggested approach also has the advantage, for citizens, of offering a permanent email address they can use to contact their representatives. They don't have to check the website from year to year to gather up email addresses. Thanks to whoever's been working on this issue, and I hope it's not too late to consider this alternative. Best, ~Brian Brian H. Rehrig 28 Academy Street Arlington, MA 02476 h: 781.646.4625 w: 781.899.9990 f: 781.207.0374 c: 617.838.4767 -----Original Message----- From: townmeeting-bounces at arlingtonlist.org [mailto:townmeeting-bounces at arlingtonlist.org] On Behalf Of Alan Jones Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 11:43 AM To: townmeeting at arlingtonlist.org Subject: Re: [Town Meeting] Fw: Re: Town Meeting Members email address (fwd) In my opinion, this is not a good implementation. Among other problems, it will create unnecessary work for the Clerk and Webmaster maintaining the address base, and it will expose private emails to spammers who harvest from web sites. If we do this, I recommend that each TMM create a new disposable address just for this use. The purpose of publishing TMMs' addresses is to provide constituents with easy email access to their representatives, which is a good thing. I propose an alternative in which 21 mailing lists would be set up, one per precinct, with an address something like Precinct14 at tmm.arlington.ma.us. Then request all TMMs to sign up and maintain their own private addresses on these lists. When constituents want to offer their opinion on an issue to their representatives, they would simply send to their precinct's list address and it will CC to their precinct's TMMs. Individual TMMs can initiate a private conversation in response as they choose, thereby avoiding group deliberation by email. Presumably the list manager would provide a high degree of spam filtering for the lists. -- Alan (Precinct 14) _______________________________________________ townmeeting mailing list townmeeting at arlingtonlist.org http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/townmeeting _______________________________________________ townmeeting mailing list townmeeting at arlingtonlist.org http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/townmeeting From rlcarr at rlcarr.com Thu Jun 4 12:55:24 2009 From: rlcarr at rlcarr.com (Rich Carreiro) Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:55:24 -0400 Subject: [Town Meeting] The thread on TMM email addresses Message-ID: I'm bending on the usual "no-discussion" rule on this because (1) it appears time may be of the essence, and (2) it's not about Town Meeting itself (when this list was proposed there were complaints that if discussion were allowed, it would put TMMs w/o email at a disadvantage at TM). -- Rich Carreiro rlcarr at rlcarr.com From srdoctrow at gmail.com Thu Jun 4 13:30:02 2009 From: srdoctrow at gmail.com (Susan Doctrow) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 13:30:02 -0400 Subject: [Town Meeting] Fw: Re: Town Meeting Members email address (fwd) In-Reply-To: <006301c9e530$1da47d80$58ed7880$@org> References: <006301c9e530$1da47d80$58ed7880$@org> Message-ID: I agree with both Alan and Brian. The permanence of the "mailing list" address and other aspects of the system have the advantages they both cited. It would be simple and convenient. I participate in other organizations that communicate this way and it works very well. All members are kept in the loop and it is easy to initiate private discussions with any poster. If something like this is implemented, the person who manages the 21 lists should still check to make sure there is good (and current) participation by all TMMs who use email. And, track down those TMMs who haven't joined their precinct's list and ask them to do so. Perhaps each precinct TM chair, or her designate, could help with that outreach each year. I, too, want to thank those setting this up, whatever system we end up with. It is a tremendous idea for the town to provide an email TMM contact option to constituents. Sue On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Brian Rehrig wrote: > I agree with Alan. His suggested approach also has the advantage, for > citizens, of offering a permanent email address they can use to contact > their representatives. They don't have to check the website from year to > year to gather up email addresses. > > Thanks to whoever's been working on this issue, and I hope it's not too > late > to consider this alternative. > > Best, > ~Brian > > Brian H. Rehrig > 28 Academy Street > Arlington, MA 02476 > h: 781.646.4625 > w: 781.899.9990 > f: 781.207.0374 > c: 617.838.4767 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: townmeeting-bounces at arlingtonlist.org > [mailto:townmeeting-bounces at arlingtonlist.org] On Behalf Of Alan Jones > Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 11:43 AM > To: townmeeting at arlingtonlist.org > Subject: Re: [Town Meeting] Fw: Re: Town Meeting Members email address > (fwd) > > In my opinion, this is not a good implementation. Among other problems, it > will create unnecessary work for the Clerk and Webmaster maintaining the > address base, and it will expose private emails to spammers who harvest > from > web sites. If we do this, I recommend that each TMM create a new disposable > address just for this use. > > The purpose of publishing TMMs' addresses is to provide constituents with > easy email access to their representatives, which is a good thing. I > propose > an alternative in which 21 mailing lists would be set up, one per precinct, > with an address something like Precinct14 at tmm.arlington.ma.us. 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Please send comments/suggestions to Diane/Joan/etc. at this point, not to the list. -- Rich Carreiro rlcarr at rlcarr.com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:20:36 -0400 From: Diane Mahon To: Rich Carreiro Subject: Fw: TMM Email Addresses Below is an excerpt of an email I received from Joan Roman (Web Content Manager) and my statement that suggestions and comments are still welcome. I totally understand if you feel I've gone the limit with the TMM list you moderate, but only if you feel appropriate to post, that's your call. I hope/think this will be the last one on this. I'm told by Joan Roman that the attached is pretty much in the form that will be available at Town Meeting. Stephanie Lucarelli will be handing out/collecting at check in. John Leone has already agreed to make an announcement at next Monday's and Wednesday's Town Meeting about the forms. Members are welcome to fill it out, print it, and bring it to Stephanie if they are so inclined. If not, there will be plenty at Town Hall. It's also an opportunity for the Clerk to confirm other TMM contact information, not just adding email. The emails will show up as another column on the existing TMM list that is on the Town site. At this point, we're focused on getting TMMs to provide confirm their info/add their email. Updating the TMM list, even manually, is not a big deal, especially when done in batches as our plan. It's the collection piece that is more cumbersome. Again, any comments or suggestions are still welcome... Diane -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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