I have a favor to ask of each of you ... and no, I'm not asking for
money nor am I asking you to shed blood for PLWP! LOL (Though I
really believe many of you would consider doing it!)
No, what I'm asking is for you to join the Yahoo Group PLWP2
www.groups.yahoo.com/group/plwp2 as soon as you possibly can. Why,
you ask? Well because it will make mine and Nan's life so much
easier.

How,you ask? Well, Nan and I have struggled with doing mass emails
now for a very long time. We need to be able to communicate with
everyone and sometimes it's crucial that we get to you in a
hurry...for instance something about advocacy or one of our members
needs help, etc. It normally takes about 2 hours to do a mass email
to you folks and then many of those are returned for various reasons.
The account has been closed, the mail capacity has been reached and
you can receive no more mail, etc.

By utilizing Yahoo Group, it doesn't take us any longer to send
hundreds of emails than it does to send one. Nan and I don't have to
keep up with each address, it's totally up to you to keep it up to
date.

Let me tell you how Yahoo does it. When anyone posts to the Message
Board on Yahoo, it automatically emails all of the members. You, the
member controls whether or not you receive the email. In your member
setup, there are several choices you can make...instead of me writing
them all down, check out the "How do I?" at
http://www.plwp.org/how_to.htm#Messages . You can change your member
set up at any time.

So, those of you who already have a login with PLWP2, you may want to
double check your email address to make sure it's correct. (There's
an option on the front page that will allow you to change your setup.
Be sure to read it carefully.) For those of you who have not joined
PLWP2, please do so without hesitation. If everyone is cooperative
and takes care of this immediately, Nan and I will completely do away
with our old system and go for Yahoo. Remember, this is a
democracy ... majority rules.

There's other benefits to using Yahoo...the board can be used for
sharing, communicating, getting help and/or giving help as well as so
many other uses. Think of it as somewhere between a chatroom and a
forum like on MGH. The thing that makes it so great is the time
factor...when the post is entered on the group site it's
automatically sent to the membership, the total interaction on PLWP
at Yahoo groups is dependent solely one the member. YOU ARE IN
CONTROL!

So please make sure you are an active member of plwp2, that your
email address is correct and that you have the appropriote settings
for what you want to do. I think we'll all be amazed at the
convenience thus the increased commoradory of the entire membership.

Nan and I really thank you for doing this. You've probably just added
another 5 years to my life line. LOL.... There's more I want to say
here but we'll have a better method when we get this job done.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Bren and Nan