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How to Send a Message
How to Choose/Change Your Delivery Settings
How to Suspend Emails
What to Do When Your Email Address Changes
How to Read the Archives
How to Quit the Discussion List

How to Send a Message
We encourage you to send your first message to the group within a few days of joining. There are two ways to send a message to all the members who have joined the HCAA Discussion List.

Option 1: Email your message to the following address:

hcaa@list.hcaa.org

This is called "sending mail to the list" because you send mail to the Discussion List computer, which distributes a copy to all other list members.

Option 2: Click on the Login link (above right). Log in using your email address and password. Click on the "Messages" tab. In the upper right hand side of the page there will be a "create new message" button. When you click on this you'll be brought to a page where you can type and send your message.

Please include the following information at the end of your messages, including when you respond to other messages:
  • Your Name
  • Firm/Employer
  • Email Address
  • Phone
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How to Choose/Change your Delivery Settings
When you log in to your Discussion List account for the first time be sure to choose how often you want to receive notices from the Discussion List. You will be able to choose from the following Delivery Settings:

Normal: receive messages as they are contributed
Digest: one daily email with all the messages for that day
Mime digest: one daily email with that day's messages in MIME format
Index: one daily email with only the subject lines for that day
No email: receive no email from this mailing list

You can change your Delivery Setting as often as you'd like. Here is how to choose/change your Delivery Setting:
  1. Click on Login link (above right).
  2. Log in using your email address and password.
  3. Click on the tab "My Account".
  4. Change membership type to your preference.
  5. Click on "Save Changes".
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How to Suspend Emails
All member accounts are self-managed on the Web. When you are away from the office for an extended period of time, you can change the mail setting to No Mail, and suspend delivery of messages temporarily. To put your emails on hold:
  1. Click on Login link (above right).
  2. Log in using your email address and password.
  3. Click on the tab "My Account".
  4. Change membership type to: No email.
  5. Click on "Save Changes".
Be sure to change your Delivery Setting once you return to the office.

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What to Do When Your Email Address Changes
If your email address changes, you need to change your registration address with the Listserv computer, as follows:
  1. Click on Login link (above right).
  2. Log in using your email address and password.
  3. Click on the tab "My Account".
  4. In the box labeled your Email Address, type in your new email address.
  5. Click on "Save Changes".
Also remember to alert HCAA headquarters of changes of any kind in your member contact information. Whether it's a change of name, address, firm, phone/fax, zip code and, of course, changes in your email address. You can submit your changes via hcaainfo@hcaa.org.

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How to Read the Archives
The Discussion List allows you the opportunity to go back and search past posts. You can do this by:
  1. Click on Login link (above right).
  2. Log in using your email address and password.
  3. Click on the "Search" tab and enter your keywords.
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How to Quit the Discussion List
If you wish to discontinue your participation with the Discussion List, follow these steps to unsubscribe:
  1. Click on Login link (above right).
  2. Log in using your email address and password.
  3. Click on the tab "My Forums".
  4. Click on Unsubscribe to the right of the list name.
Remember that you must be a member of HCAA to participate in the Discussion List, but discontinuing your participation in the Discussion List does not affect your membership in HCAA. As long as you are a member in good standing, you may rejoin the Discussion List at a later time.

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