"Vaplanning" Mailing List

The "vaplanning" mailing list is an e-mail subscription list for persons interested in Virginia planning. Once you have subscribed, you can send in a message that will be sent back out to all mailing list subscribers. Let people know what is going on in your locality, or do some research. This mailing list is free of charge and open to anyone interested in Virginia planning. 

You can subscribe to vaplanning by sending a message to [email protected]. Leave the subject line blank, and type "subscribe" (without the quotation marks). In the body of the message, type "subscribe vaplanning" (without the quotation marks). Follow the same procedure to unsubscribe, substituting the word "unsubscribe" for "subscribe".  

To send a message to vaplanning, address the message to [email protected]. Use your own subject line and message body. Within a few minutes, your message will be redistributed back out to all vaplanning subscribers. There are currently 244 subscribers to vaplanning.  

Questions? Send a message to [email protected]. 

"Vaplanning-Digest" Mailing List

The "vaplanning-digest" mailing list is an e-mail subscription list for persons interested in getting a weekly list of messages posted to the "vaplanning" list serve. This feature allows you keep up-to-date with information on the list serve without the daily messages. This feature is highly recommended if you are away from office and you want avoid coming back to packed mailbox.  

You can subscribe to vaplanning-digest by sending a message to [email protected]. Leave the subject line blank, and type "subscribe" (without the quotation marks). In the body of the message, type "subscribe vaplanning-digest" (without the quotation marks). Follow the same procedure to unsubscribe, substituting the word "unsubscribe" for "subscribe". 

"Vaplanning" Discussion Page

This site is intended provide information about planning issues within the Commonwealth of Virginia.  However, there are no restrictions on what can be posted.   However, the webmaster retains the right to remove inappropriate or abusive messages.

Just follow this link to the VAPA Discussion Page, and have fun!!

Questions? Send a message to the Listserve Manager.

Vital Information for Vaplanning Subscribers:

On two separate occasions, vaplanning was deluged with hundreds of e-mail messages from the wayward e-mail server of a subscriber. Although that subscriber has been banned from the list, you should know what to do in case of another debilitating on-slaught of e-mail.

• Unsubscribe from the mailing list. Send a message to [email protected]. Leave the subject line blank, or type "unsubscribe" (without the quotation marks). In the body of the message, type "unsubscribe vaplanning" (without the quotation marks). This strategy will save you the aggravation of a clogged e-mailbox until the deluge is over. 
• Contact your e-mail administrator. He or she may be able to block messages from a particular sender. 

What precautions have been taken to ensure that a flood of unwanted e-mail will not clog vaplanning again? No solution is perfect, but a number of steps have been taken to substantially decrease the possiblity of a repeat. 

• Vaplanning has migrated to a new server. Up until the end of December, 1997, vaplanning resided on a server at Crosslink. However, their support was non-existent during the deluge, refusing either to take the list offline or change the settings to block the flow of messages. Because of the poor service, vaplanning has migrated to Listbox, as noted above. 
• Vaplanning now has a "closed" subscription policy. New subscribers will be approved individually by the administrator, allowing the administrator the chance to "check out" the address before approving. 
• Additional administrators have been appointed. Up to now, only one administrator has been assigned to "watch" the vaplanning list to make sure that things go smoothly. Three additional people are now authorized to remove subscribers or change the list setup to temporarily require approval for all messages that go back out to the list, in the event that the first administrator is offline when an emergency occurs. The three additional volunteers are Jeryl Rose Phillips [email protected];Paul Holt: [email protected]; Edwin Brooks: [email protected] 
• In case of problems with vaplanning, contact Lee Householder: [email protected] or [email protected]. 

North Carolina e-mail subscription list: 

TThe NC PLAN list is set up to allow planners to communicate through e-mail. If you subscribe, you can send e-mail messages to all other subscribing members, and you will receive copies of any messages sent by other subscribing members.

The list is for the present open and unmoderated. No one approves the messages before they are sent out to members. Participation is open to anyone, although the focus of the discussion and most of the participants are professional planners working in the state of North Carolina.

You can subscribe to the list directly from this page.

Fill in the fields with the following information:
email address: [email protected]
name: My Full Name
List name: NCPlan

To unsubscribe from the list, go to the same page and fill in the appropriate fields.

To post a message, question, or announcement, send an e-mail message to:

<[email protected] >

This message will then be sent out via e-mail to all other subscribers.