On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 05:06:05PM +0000, Bev Nicolson wrote:
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Oh good grief. Surely members now have email addresses. Those without must be in the minority now. How the hell do they function in today's world without an email address?
But people don't like revealing them. I manage our our private road, even after several years of asking for E-Mail addresses I have fewer than half of them.
Not revealing an email address to an individual is one thing. Not giving it when an organisation asks for it so it can, idk, send you things you might want to know ...
Or, of course (what many people fear) endless junk mail.
But they have (I just checked) 3000 members, give or take presumably. They're not a charity but they will have obligations to those members and not sending junk mail is, I'm guessing, likely to one of them.
I do think those that can be need nudging into the 21st c.
Yes Bev, I agree completely, but 'people out there' don't all see the world in the same way that we do! :-)
It's all very well saying it's 'obviously' best if all members give their E-Mail addresses but it just doesn't work in practice. I've said this to all the (not incredibly many) residents of our road but I still don't have most of their E-Mail addresses. You can't really refuse membership to someone who won't give you their E-Mail.
Maybe the answer would be to generate E-Mail addresses for the members who don't have them that send the E-Mail to a common destination that the secretary can read. You could even associate the 'not a real E-Mail' with alternative ways to contact that member.