Subject: Election law listserv housekeeping message--IMPORTANT: Please read
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 8/1/2006, 9:29 AM
To: election-law
CC: Betty Kinuthia <Betty.Kinuthia@lls.edu>

This e-mail contains important information about the election law listserv.  If you are receiving this message you are a member of the listserv.  Please read the important information below.

1. Listserv subscriptions.   Basic information about subscribing, unsubscribing, and accessing the archives appears in the FAQs at the bottom of this message.  A few points to emphasize.  To post a message to the list, send an email to <election-law@majordomo.lls.edu>.  In order for your message to post, you must post from EXACTLY the same email address that you used to subscribe.  To see how you are subscribed, you can have the listserv computer send you a list of all subscribers (currently 714 subscribers) by pointing your web browser to: <http://majordomo.lls.edu/cgi-bin/lwgate/ELECTION-LAW_GL/review.html> and filling in your information.  If there is a discrepancy and you need your email address changed, or if you have multiple email addresses and need to remove some, please send me a private message with your information.  Unsubscribe requests can take up to a week to process.  Please do not let your mailbox fill up.  When it does, Dan Lowenstein and I get an error message EVERY TIME anyone posts to the list.  Between those error messages and spam sent to the list, we get HUNDREDS of junk list-related messages each week.  If you let your mailbox fill up, we will drop you from the list.

2. Election Law address database.  If you would like to add your information to the election law database, which lists names, addresses, phone numbers and emails of people interested in election law, point your web browser to <http://intranet.lls.edu/elect-law-group/>.  The database also allows for printing address labels for sending reprints.  To access the database, use the term "election" as the user id.  The password is the one we've always used for this database---not your private password.  If you don't remember it, or never received it, send me a private message with the word "password" in the subject line.

3. Election law teacher database.  The election law teacher database is posted here: <http://electionlawblog.org/archives/database.xls>.  This is an EXCEL file.  I update this once a year, and now is the time for updating.  If you have any changes or additions, send a private email message to my assistant, Betty Kinutha, at <Betty.Kinuthia-at-lls.edu>.

4. Election law exam database.  You can find old exams from a number of election law professors here: <http://electionlawblog.org/archives/003647.html>.

5. Other election law mailing lists, blogs, RSS feeds, etc.  Once a year, we invite anyone who has an email list or other subscription service related to election law to send a single message to the election law list with information on how to receive regular updates or feeds.  Now is the time that each individual or group with such service to send a single message to the election law list.

Thanks for your cooperation. If you have any suggestions for improvement, send a private message to Dan Lowenstein and me.

Rick

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             What is ELECTION-LAW?

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Loyola Law School
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