Electronic Mailing Lists
The RC Community maintains many electronic mailing lists for particular categories of RCers. These lists are for active members of the RC Community and most of them are for leaders. We are in the process of moving many of our lists to Signal, or adding a Signal list to a pre-existing email list. You can see a list of all these lists here. You can see al the email lists here: List of Electronic Mailing Lists. Be sure to sure check out Guidelines for the Use of Electronic Mailing Lists as well.
The email version of the list will be exclusively for discussion about Co-Counseling and RC Community building. Postings that address RC liberation work and world change work will be made to the new Signal list. Postings to the email version of the lists would address issues such as being a counselor or client, teaching RC, supporting one another to build strong counseling relationships and RC Communities. The email lists will not address issues such as oppression, liberation, social change, and activism.
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Changing your Subscription Settings
REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBSCRIBING
- You are an RC Community Members in good standing. For this purpose, Community Members in good standing are those Co-Counselors who participate regularly in RC classes and workshops, who make tangible contributions to the RC community, and who are in good contact with RC leadership. (Note that this does not include other 'peer counseling' groups. These lists are specifically for members of the Re-evaluation Counseling Communities.)
- You agree to follow the Guidelines of the International Re-evaluation Counseling Communities. A hard copy of this document can be ordered from Rational Island Publishers. You can also find it on the RC website.
- You are a member of the constituency that the specific list is set up for. For details, please see the Summary for the list online. This will show when you click on the list.
- You agree to follow the List Guidelines.
- You are knowledgeable of the RC theory and practice and you regularly read Present Time, the RC quarterly journal.
- You agree to treat all list members with respect, not to use the list as an opportunity to inappropriately take the role of client, and to think well before posting to the list, taking session time, if needed, to gain clarity.
- You agree to refrain from posting anything to the list that is not RC-related or outside the specific scope of the list (e.g., advertising, discussion of non-RC theory and methods, unrelated wide-world advocacy, etc.).
- You agree to accept the authority of the Internet Reference Person when there is a conflict on policy or process.
SUBSCRIBING
- Make sure you have a subscription to Present Time if you speak English. (If you speak English, part of being an active member of the RC Community is subscribing to Present Time.) For the Community Members list, you must have a recommendation from an Area or Regional Reference Person. For additional requirements, please see below.
To subscribe to an email list:
- Set up an account at the list website if you don’t already have one. Please note: Even if you don't have an account, you may already have been subscribed to some lists in the past by the list administrator, but you can control your subscription settings only if you have set up an account, and only you can created such an account. The server will ask you for a user name, your preferred email address and a password.
- After you sign up for an account, you will receive an email to verify your email address. Be sure to look for it in your junk folder if you don’t see it after some time. If you can't find it anywhere, please contact the list admin at hansen@rc.org. When your email address has been verified, the account is created.
- Once you have an account, go back to the list website and log in with your account information. Then click on the list you would you would like to subscribe to, and enter your email address.
- After some time you will get an email from the list moderator with some questions to get to know you better and to get your contact information. Please complete and send that back to the moderator and copy tommyatz@rc.org. It may take some days for the list moderator to get back to you, please be patient. If it takes too long, please contact the list moderator.
- You will get a confirmation email when you are successfully subscribed. Keep this email. You will be expected to use your account to make changes to your electronic mailing list subscriptions. If you need help, there is a ‘help’ list where subscribers can help each other. Please subscribe to that list. If you have questions, please check there first for an answer. If you find nothing useful to your issue, please post a question. Beyond that, you can ask the list administrator for help at hansen@rc.org.
- You may note that there are two listings for an email list--one that includes the notation that it is deactivated. That is the old list, you cannot subscribe to a deactivated list. Select the listing that is not deactivated to subscribe to. The name is slightly different.
To subscribe to a Signal list:
- If you don’t have a Signal account yet, please get one at https://signal.org/download. It’s best to have Signal on both your phone and your computer; they will sync with one another. Note: you will need to create your Signal account on your phone first, using your cellphone number. If you are having difficulty with Signal, make sure you have the updated version on the device you are using. Please try to find friends or Co-Counselors to help you.
- Apply to the Signal list you wish to subscribe to by submitting the application for that Signal list on this page.
- Once it is verified that you are an active member of the RC Community and have a Reference Person’s permission to be on the list, you will be sent a link to subscribe to the Signal list.
- Once accepted onto the Signal list, the Signal list will appear in your Chats on Signal.
UNSUBSCRIBING
To unsubscribe from an email list:
Log in to your account at the list website, select the list you want to unsubscribe from, then click on 'Unsubscribe'. Alternatively, please note that each message you get from the list has a link at the bottom that lets you unsubscribe.
To unsubscribe from Signal:
Tap on the group name, scroll to the bottom of the page, then select "leave group."
CHANGING YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
Log in to your account at the list website. After logging in, go to 'Account' - an option in the menu under your name in the upper right corner. Then click on 'E-mail Addresses' and add the new address and set it as your primary address.
When it's been verified, click on 'Manage Lists' at the top. For each list you are a member of (click on the list), go to 'your list options page.' You can find the link in the paragraph under the 'Subscription/Unsubscription' header on the list page.
Select your new email for the subscription and press the button that says 'Change email used for subscription.' You can remove the old address later when you are sure it all works, but you don't have to.
POSTING ANONYMOUSLY
Posting anonymously to the email lists:
When we send messages to the RC lists, we sometimes find it necessary to mention private information about us, our friends or family members. In doing so, we need to be aware that email should be thought of as public information, because it is sent to upwards of 1000+ list members and gets stored on their computers or on mail servers.
We have implemented a mechanism where we allow such messages to be posted from a special account, anonymous@rc.org. You send the message to the list administrator at hansen@rc.org. The list administrator strips it of identifying information and posts it from the anonymous account. The 'anonymous' account is, in turn, moderated, so each message gets looked at again before it gets sent out. So far the list administrator has done this second check, but the list moderators can elect to do that instead, so that a different pair of eyes will be involved (to minimize the risk of mistakes).
Some time ago, we started moderating the parents list because a lot of the messages there are often about our young charges, and we did not want those messages to come back to them later. Since then we have requested that a lot of messages caught in this net instead be sent out anonymously and the senders have always agreed and appreciated it when we explained why.
Incoming messages sent to anonymous@rc.org are not monitored, so if you reply to anonymous messages sent from that account, your reply will not be read! To send a message to the author of an anonymous message you need to send it to the list. Of course, as needed, your reply can also be sent anonymously using the above mechanism. You can also send a public message to the list and ask the anonymous sender to contact you if you like to have a conversation.
Posting anonymously to Signal lists:
To post anonymously to a Signal list you can either have a Signal name that does not identify you or you can send your posting to the Signal list administrator and ask them to post it anonymously for you.
ACCESSING EMAIL LIST ARCHIVES
Log in to your email account and click on the list you are interested in. There you will see a link to 'Archives.' It will show recent messages and you can also search for past messages. If you like, you can respond to old threads or create new ones right from this page.
Signal does not have list archives. Save any postings you wish to keep to a secure location.
CHANGING YOUR EMAIL SUBSCRIPTION SETTINGS
Log in to your account and click on the list you want to access. There you will see a link to 'Manage Subscription.' You will see a list of options which you can change. They don't show the current settings if you have not changed them from the list default settings, but you can override the default settings as you wish.
Examples:
- If you go on vacation, you can stop messages from this list.
- If you have registered more than one email address for your account, you can choose which one to use for this list.
- If your subscription address is a gmail address, you will not receive the messages that you send out. Google deletes them. There is a setting here that lets the server send you an acknowledgment when you post a message, so you can know that your message has been received and sent out.