From john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au Mon Apr 23 10:52:09 2012 From: john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au (John O'Byrne) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:52:09 +1000 Subject: [ASA] test1 Message-ID: Plain text ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JOHN O?BYRNE Associate Head (Teaching & Learning) Chair, School Teaching & Learning Committee Secretary, Astronomical Society of Australia Inc. Sydney Institute for Astronomy School of Physics | Faculty of Science THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Rm 568, Physics Annexe A29 | The University of Sydney | NSW | Australia | 2006 T +61 2 9351 3184 | F +61 2 9351 7726 E john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au | W http://sydney.edu.au/science/physics/~obyrne CRICOS 00026A This email plus any attachments to it are confidential. Any unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. 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URL: From john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au Mon Apr 23 10:57:43 2012 From: john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au (John O'Byrne) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:57:43 +1000 Subject: [ASA] Test 3- Announcement: One-day Magnetic Field Workshop Message-ID: <9BCAD721-2235-422F-8A0E-9D9899D30002@sydney.edu.au> This is a repeat of an earlier email sent only as a test Dear colleagues, Magnetic fields play a pivotal role in regulating the structure and evolution of the Universe over a wide range of scales. In the last decade much progress had been made developing new analysis methods and theoretical models of magnetism in the ISM and IGM. A host of new projects, including GALFACTS, GMIMS, S-PASS, MWA and POSSUM, will soon furnish all-sky measurements of Faraday rotation and radio polarisation. In the lead up to these exciting new datasets we invite you to join us for a one-day workshop on magnetic fields to be held on the 7th of May 2012 at the ATNF headquarters in Sydney, Australia. The meeting will be based around short oral contributions (15 min) with ample time for questions. Please respond by email to cormac.purcell at sydney.edu.au if you are interested in attending, along with a proposed title. The deadline for registration is Monday 23rd of April. More information is available on the meeting website: http://askap.org/possum/Meetings/SydneyMagneticFieldWorkshop2012 Please distribute this announcement to any other interested parties. A poster advertising the meeting is also attached. Best regards, Cormac Purcell on behalf of Xiaohui Sun Shane O'Sullivan Bryan Gaensler and the POSSUM team. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Cormac Purcell http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~cpurcell SiFA POSSUM Postdoc, Tel: +61 (0)2 9351 5799 School of Physics, Fax: +61 (0)2 9351 7726 University of Sydney, Mob: +61 (0)42 423 0080 NSW 2006. 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URL: From bryan.gaensler at sydney.edu.au Mon Apr 23 11:14:05 2012 From: bryan.gaensler at sydney.edu.au (Bryan Gaensler) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:14:05 +1000 Subject: [ASA] Test from my registered email address Message-ID: Test From bgaensler at gmail.com Mon Apr 23 11:14:16 2012 From: bgaensler at gmail.com (Bryan Gaensler) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:14:16 +1000 Subject: [ASA] Test from another email address Message-ID: From john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au Mon Apr 23 11:18:59 2012 From: john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au (John O'Byrne) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:18:59 +1000 Subject: [ASA] Test 4- Announcement: One-day Magnetic Field Workshop Message-ID: <0630BEEC-2312-41B6-B5AA-3282B0054E1B@sydney.edu.au> This is a repeat of an earlier email sent only as a test - again Dear colleagues, Magnetic fields play a pivotal role in regulating the structure and evolution of the Universe over a wide range of scales. In the last decade much progress had been made developing new analysis methods and theoretical models of magnetism in the ISM and IGM. A host of new projects, including GALFACTS, GMIMS, S-PASS, MWA and POSSUM, will soon furnish all-sky measurements of Faraday rotation and radio polarisation. In the lead up to these exciting new datasets we invite you to join us for a one-day workshop on magnetic fields to be held on the 7th of May 2012 at the ATNF headquarters in Sydney, Australia. The meeting will be based around short oral contributions (15 min) with ample time for questions. Please respond by email to cormac.purcell at sydney.edu.au if you are interested in attending, along with a proposed title. The deadline for registration is Monday 23rd of April. More information is available on the meeting website: http://askap.org/possum/Meetings/SydneyMagneticFieldWorkshop2012 Please distribute this announcement to any other interested parties. 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URL: From john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au Mon Apr 23 18:01:44 2012 From: john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au (John O'Byrne) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:01:44 +1000 Subject: [ASA] Test 5 - Moderators Message-ID: <2F929F59-D413-4DFA-B8A6-FE17B54D64C7@sydney.edu.au> Hi Marc, Kate, Bryan, I removed Marc and Kate as Moderators on the ASA email list earlier this morning to try a series of test messages and fiddle with settings. I have now added Marc back so he can decide if it is a nuisance to get emails about emails. I will send a few more tests, including this one. I think it is probably an unnecessary burden on the President to get the emails too. Comments Marc? We currently have a membership database system that tried to (semi-)automate the process of adding or changing new members to make it easier for me and the Treasurer too. That didn't work as well as intended because it was difficult to generate the necessary emails and attachments automatically. Also, members are really bad at following procedures, so there are always many new members who complete the web form but don't follow through with a signed copy (usually by email). One thing that did work nicely was the automatic addition of new members to the relevant exploder lists (all members or just students). However, mailman appears not to allow this. I will need an extra step of manually adding new members to both mailman lists - as a group usually so it's not too bad. I also cannot currently see a way of editing a message before sending it on. Any suggestions Bryan? Mailman does provide a means for members to control their own access - in particular to change their email address. However, we don't really want them to do this independently of the main membership database. That means the advantages of mailman as I see them are: 1. attachments are archived along with emails (not done currently) 2. having multiple (if necessary varying) off-site moderators is easy. I'm still thinking about how to use it. Any comments? John ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JOHN O?BYRNE Associate Head (Teaching & Learning) Chair, School Teaching & Learning Committee Secretary, Astronomical Society of Australia Inc. Sydney Institute for Astronomy School of Physics | Faculty of Science THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Rm 568, Physics Annexe A29 | The University of Sydney | NSW | Australia | 2006 T +61 2 9351 3184 | F +61 2 9351 7726 E john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au | W http://sydney.edu.au/science/physics/~obyrne CRICOS 00026A This email plus any attachments to it are confidential. Any unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. 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URL: From bryan.gaensler at sydney.edu.au Mon Apr 23 18:06:18 2012 From: bryan.gaensler at sydney.edu.au (Bryan Gaensler) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:06:18 +1000 Subject: [ASA] Test 5 - Moderators In-Reply-To: <2F929F59-D413-4DFA-B8A6-FE17B54D64C7@sydney.edu.au> References: <2F929F59-D413-4DFA-B8A6-FE17B54D64C7@sydney.edu.au> Message-ID: Hi John, > I removed Marc and Kate as Moderators on the ASA email list earlier this morning to try a series of test messages and fiddle with settings. I have now added Marc back so he can decide if it is a nuisance to get emails about emails. I will send a few more tests, including this one. I think it is probably an unnecessary burden on the President to get the emails too. > Comments Marc? I thought one of the motivations for switching to Mailman was to allow any member to post promptly to the whole ASA exploder, subject to approval. If only 1-2 people can approve, then this limits the usefulness of this since there can be a delay before the moderator approves. I think you want at least 3 people to get the emails. And of course, separately, the President should be allowed to post to the ASA exploder without moderation! > I also cannot currently see a way of editing a message before sending it on. Any suggestions Bryan? I don't think this can be done. Not sure why you'd want to though? > Mailman does provide a means for members to control their own access - in particular to change their email address. However, we don't really want them to do this independently of the main membership database. That means the advantages of mailman as I see them are: > 1. attachments are archived along with emails (not done currently) > 2. having multiple (if necessary varying) off-site moderators is easy. The other big advantage is that the emails come from the sender rather than from John, making it easy for people to hit reply. regards Bryan