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e-mail Services at C3HUU
E-mail services are offered to all staff members the Board chairperson and Church Council chairperson and one contact for each C3HUU recognized Committee or Group. An e-mail address of the form: 'title-@-c3huu.org' is created and offered as part of the c3huu.org hosted e-mail service. Each c3huu.org e-mail address may be forwarded to only one other e-mail address which is often the group leader's personal e-mail address. A Webmail service (mail.c3huu.org) may be used if preferred. It is also possible to use both, the Webmail service can forward to one e-mail address AND it can archive e-mail, so multiple people could share the webmail access to this group e-mail ID.

For 2 or 3 people sharing the webmail this may work OK, for more than that' I'd recommend starting a Yahoogroup or Google group to coordinate group activities and e-mail. We can setup a GroupName@c3huu.org to point to a Yahoogroup, we assume it would work for Google group as well (can someone verify?)

Unfortunately, C3HUU IT Services doesn't have enough resources to support anything other than the "c3huu.org" domain name for e-mail at this time. We get one domain name for the level of services we are paying to Network Solutions.

Electronic Mailing Lists and Web Pages
There are groups and committees who have an electronic e-mail list and/or a web page setup on their behalf. Supported groups are setup on YahooGroups.com, formerly eGroups.com and GoogleGroups.com Here is the list of Electronic Mailing lists and (known) web sites supporting C3H groups.

A person may subscribe to lists on YahooGroups.com or GoogleGroups.com may be enrolled several ways. If you receive an invitation via e-mail, then you may either go to the YahooGroups.com or GoogleGroups.com web site according to the first set of directions in the e-mail invitation OR you can simply follow the instructions and reply to the e-mail message to confirm your participation.

If you are responding to a group, or a list of people who are not related to you, please either create a group, or put all the e-mail addresses in the BCC (blind carbon copy) field of your e-mail program. That way the e-mail you send does NOT include all these unrelated e-mail addresses which are fodder for the one e-mail on the list that may have been compromised and feeds all those e-mail addresses back to a 'bot to send out spam and phishing messages.

Printing Wiki Pages
To print a page you are viewing:
 * Click the "Page" tab in the top, middle of the web page you are viewing
 * Click "Print" and a printable version of the page should come up in your web browser
 * Use your web browser's print function to print the page

Creating e-mail links
e-mail links may be added to Wikispaces.com web pages, see the tutorial on creating wikispace web pages. BUT we highly recommend any groups request group e-mail addresses from ITServ@c3huu.org When you highlight text that you wish to link using the "Link" button in the editor bar with the little chain symbol, a window will popup. In the window, go to the "External Link" tab in the popup window, and enter your e-mail address on the second line. We highly suggest that you either use a "disposable" e-mail address or an @c3huu.org address assigned to your group as noted earlier in this paragraph.

Avoid enticing [|UBE] (spam)
[|Unsolicited Bulk E-mail, UBE or just plain "spam"], is increasingly hard to avoid, but when you pull together a web page there are some hints and tips you can follow to minimize extra spam coming to your e-mail address:


 * 1) Avoid using the "real" e-mail address. Request a "@c3huu.org" e-mail address for your church group or use services such as xemaps.com or snkmail.com as a public address which sends mail to your real e-mail address.
 * 2) Use graphical versions of your e-mail address, such as the phone number image below which was created with the Windows "Paint" program and the file uploaded.

Apologies for this change in guidance where we've eliminated the suggestion to obfuscate the e-mail address. Having e-mail links is great, but setting up a disposable or difficult to clone address in your web page may save many hours of grief later once your e-mail address makes it to a spammer's list of popular e-mail addresses!

Next up:

Advice for Telephone Contact Numbers

 * 1) Avoid posting personal phone numbers that can easily be run in a reverse lookup program and identify you including your address!
 * 2) Use graphical versions of a phone number online, such as this one which was created with the Windows "Paint" program and the file uploaded. yes, another pain but VERY difficult to be scooped up and added to automatic dialers!