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Date: Sun, 5 Mar 1995 00:25:00 +0100
From: fnet-admin@financenet.gov
To: Siegfried Rambaum <siram@muc.de>
Subject: Financenet Internet Mailing Lists
************************************************** ****************
WELCOME TO THE FINANCENET INTERNET MAILING LISTS
************************************************** ****************
IMPORTANT DOCUMENT---------------------PLEASE PRINT, READ AND KEEP
WHAT IS FINANCENET?
We invite you to join together with thousands of other public and private
sector finance professionals, educators and taxpayers to share information
and ideas for improving the stewardship and accountability of taxpayer
resources at all levels of government. FinanceNet is your
opportunity to participate directly in reinventing government financial
management. FinanceNet is a worldwide network of people that spans Federal
executive agencies and departments, International, state, local and
municipal governments, professional organizations and taxpayers as it
crosses public-private sector boundaries to provide electronic libraries
and mailing lists to link participants in a global outreach effort to
improve the way governments manage the public's resources.
The mission of FinanceNet is to serve as a vehicle and catalyst for
continuous improvement and innovation, at all levels of government, in the
accountability and stewardship of public assets by impacting financial
management resources, practices, policies and professional standards.
Coordination and support are provided by Vice President Gore's National
Performance Review (NPR) in Washington, D.C. We chose the Internet to be
the exclusive communications link for FinanceNet because of the
substantial size and global dispersion of our audience.
We intend to provide a synergistic medium for the sharing of ideas,
successes, news, lessons learned, best practices and experiences through
Internet access to current and archival reference libraries of financial
legislation, Congressional testimony, executive orders and memoranda,
important meeting minutes and highlights, and OMB, GAO and Treasury
financial circulars, bulletins and releases. We also provide FinanceNet
with Internet mailing lists and discussion forums on a host of pertinent
topics to further stimulate dialog and information sharing within our
global government financial management community.
************************************************** ****************
FINANCENET INTERNET MAILING LISTS
************************************************** ****************
WHAT IS AN INTERNET MAILING LIST?
An Internet electronic mailing list is a register of Internet addresses of
individuals interested in automatically receiving new information
(documents, news, announcements, etc.) on a particular financial
management topic of interest. The FinanceNet mailing lists open for
public subscription use the "Listproc" program software to automatically
respond to specifically worded commands to subscribe and unsubscribe users
and to respond to certain "special option" commands that provide further
utility.
To subscribe, unsubscribe and set the various automatic options available,
you must be very careful to word your command exactly as advised.
Otherwise the automatic list management software will not recognize your
request and require you to repeat the command(s) correctly. You are
always notified when a command is either accepted or rejected. If a
command is rejected, the response you receive will usually describe the
error that you probably made in your command statement and recommend a
correction so that you can reissue the command properly.
Subscription to any of the FinanceNet e-mail lists is free and available
to anyone interested in improving government financial management through
the sharing of information and ideas. There are multiple e-mail lists
within the FinanceNet network, each dedicated to a government financial
management discipline or professional organization.
Each FinanceNet mailing list is "coordinated" by a member of the
FinanceNet Core Team who is familiar with the topic of the list.
Coordination involves monitoring the list, checking for and reporting
disruptive inflammatory messages, insuring that the appropriate new
documents, newsletters, journals, bulletins, circulars, or other pertinent
items of interest to the list membership get distributed to the list, and
making policy recommendations back to the Core Team for list enhancements.
You are free (in fact encouraged) to post pertinent documents, news or
announcements (or notices of the electronic location of same) to any of
the FinanceNet mailing lists. You are not required to be a subscriber to
a list to post to it. However, to receive distributions posted to a
particular list you must be a subscriber to that list.
All communications to the list (postings) are addressed to the list itself
(i.e. int-controls@financenet.gov). All subscription service requests
must always go to the list manager address (i.e. listproc@financenet.gov)
or they will not get processed.
FINANCENET MAILING LISTS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
Below is a current listing of all publicly available FinanceNet Internet
mailing lists open for subscription. Lists are intended for posting and
receiving all news, announcements, notices, information, comments, and
questions generally relating to the list topics. In many cases, the
information posted to the mailing lists will also be posted on the library
servers. Given first is the list title and second the list address to
send all messages intended to go to the entire list membership (see How to
Post Messages...). Under each list title are a few samples of appropriate
financial management topics that each list may address.
LISTNAME (topics) LIST ADDRESS
News news@financenet.gov
FinanceNet's "master" listserver, the "News" Internet e-mail list, is
intended as a distribution and discussion list to catalyze improvements in
the accountability and stewardship of public assets and taxpayer resources
at all levels of government. The "News" list is designed for the
distribution of general government financial management documents, news,
announcements and notices and to facilitate dialog across all geopolitical
boundaries on these issues. Participants are encouraged to post, or
cross-post, their own region's news announcements to this list for all to
share and to participate in dialog in sharing successes, best practices,
fresh ideas and approaches, etc. Because of its general nature, "News" is
likely to become a very popular and patronized list, and we suggest you
consider setting the "digest" option here to limit mailbox overload when
traffic builds.
State & County state-county@financenet.gov
(A distribution and discussion list for issues broadly relating to
government financial stewardship and taxpayer accountability issues at
state and county levels of government. Documents and discussions will
broadly relate to accounting matters, bonds, revenues and taxation,
budgets, systems, fees, licenses, audits, controls, payroll, and all other
issues of interest to local gov't financial managers and taxpayers.)
Municipal and Township MuniNet@financenet.gov
(A distribution and discussion list for issues relating to financial
accountability and stewardship of municipalities, towns and townships
within larger geopolitical jurisdictions. As in the "state-county" list,
documents and discussions will broadly relate to accounting matters,
bonds, revenues and taxation, budgets, systems, fees, licenses, audits,
controls, payroll, and all other issues of interest to clerks, and other
local gov't financial management staff and taxpayers. This list will also
provide a communications medium for the membership and agenda issues for
the International Institute of Municipal Clerks, and other local gov't
professional organizations).
BudgetNet budget-net@financenet.gov
(A distribution and discussion list for revenue, appropriation and
budget issues at all levels of government related to the mission
of BudgetNet, a NetResults network of people at the National
Performance Review.)
Internal Controls int-controls@financenet.gov
(A distribution list for issues relating to the Federal Financial
Managers Integrity Act; the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
high risk list; general government waste, fraud and abuse of
resources; related Inspector General audit findings and
recommendations; issues related OMB circulars A-123, A-127 and
A-50; and management control reviews and plans, etc.)
Financial Systems fin-systems@financenet.gov
(A distribution list for issues relating to systems integration,
core systems, systems requirements, computer hardware and
software, contractors, useful life, information architecture,
functional standards, data dictionaries, standard general ledger
implementation, cross-servicing, general improvements, etc.)
Performance Measures perf-measures@financenet.gov
(A distribution list for issues relating to the Government
Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA), outcome vs. output
measures, statistical presentation and reporting, performance
measures impact, development, standards, compliance, etc.)
Financial Policy fin-policy@financenet.gov
(A distribution list for issues relating to financial management
policy incorporated within OMB Circulars, Treasury Bulletins and
accounting standards from FASAB, GASB, etc.)
Financial Statements & Reporting fin-reporting@financenet.gov
(A distribution list for issues broadly relating to the various
financial reporting requirements of the Treasury and Office of
Management and Budget; financial statements issues, accountability
and stewardship reporting, policy, procedures, improvements,
standards, etc.)
Financial Audits fin-audits@financenet.gov
(A distribution list for issues relating to the relations between
the CFO and audit communities, agency audit findings and
recommendations, audit follow-up and validation procedures,
materiality thresholds, IG vs. IPA audits, financial audit
resources and staffing, etc.)
Asset/Liability Management asset-liab-mgt@financenet.gov
(A distribution list for issues relating to balance sheet issues,
of interest to subscribers across all geopolitical boundaries,
such as the government credit card; topically related legislation,
bulletins and circulars; receivables and payables, cash
reconciliations, cash advances and accounting issues, Prompt Pay,
heritage assets, R&D expenditures, capitalization, credit reform,
insurance and guarantee programs, contingencies, social insurance,
pension benefits, etc.)
Financial Personnel & Training fin-training@financenet.gov
(A distribution list for issues relating to postings for new
financial management training opportunities and vacancies,
personnel training issues and resources, course content,
professional readiness, applicant pool size, classification
standards, position descriptions, etc.)
Payroll payroll@financenet.gov
(A distribution list for issues broadly relating to payroll issues
at all levels of government.)
Travel travel@financenet.gov
(A distribution and discussion list for issues broadly relating to
improving travel administration at all levels of government.)
Procurement procurement@financenet.gov
(A distribution and discussion list for issues broadly relating to
procurement, and especially the Federal Electronic Commerce
Acquisition Team and electronic data interchange issues at all
levels of government.)
Listservers targeted to Professional Organizations and Other
Groups:
Association of Government Accountants aga@financenet.gov
JFMIP Distribution List JFMIP@financenet.gov
Government Finance Officers Assoc. GFOA@financenet.gov
HOW TO SUBSCRIBE
You can be automatically subscribed to any FinanceNet Internet
mailing list by following a few simple procedures exactly. The
list program will process your request and subscribe you to the
list only when your commands are worded correctly and in the
proper sequence. It is important to remember that the "Listproc"
program will not understand any commands, comments or verbiage
you might send in he body of your message that do not precisely
match the commands and instructions described below. Additional
verbiage will just confuse the software.
Although you may subscribe to as many FinanceNet mailing lists as
you like, we suggest that you subscribe to only one list per
message. You will be able to subscribe to any of the lists by
sending a simple Internet e-mail message. To begin you must
address your message to:
listproc@financenet.gov
DO NOT address your subscription request, or other list
maintenance or service request, to the list name itself (i.e.
int-controls@financenet.gov). Not only will your service request
not be understood or honored, your service message will go out to
all subscribers of record for that particular list. Your service
request message will more than likely be confusing and an irritant
to other subscribers. Repeating, all mailing list subscription
service request messages must be sent ONLY to:
listproc@financenet.gov
You may leave the subject blank on all list service requests.
However, you may want to include one for your own future
reference. For example, if you wanted to subscribe to the
FinanceNet list "int-controls" you would include in the first
line of the body of the mail message (case being unimportant) the
command:
subscribe list-name your name
example: subscribe int-controls John Doe
You must use your true name (John Doe) in the command above (not
your e-mail address), and, again, send via e-mail to:
listproc@financenet.gov
In the rare situation in which you may need personal attention
from a live individual relating to a special mailing list request
or problem, send your e-mail comment or request to the list
manager:
support@financenet.gov
Contacting the list manager for anything other than compliments
should be your last option...NOT your first. The whole idea is
that YOU manage your account with the list and the manager only
steps in when the need goes beyond what the list service will
allow you to do.
HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE
To unsubscribe (signoff) from any FinanceNet e-mail list simply
send in the first line of the body of a mail message the command:
unsubscribe list-name
example: unsubscribe int-controls
and send via e-mail to:
listproc@financenet.gov
Again, DO NOT address your "unsubscription" or other service
request to the particular mailing list name itself. All such
requests MUST go to the "listproc" address above. All service
requests do not require the subject line to be filled out,
although you may do so for your own record keeping if you like.
If you send your "unsubscribe" request to the list itself you
will NOT be unsubscribed, and everyone on the list will receive a
wasted message.
We enthusiastically encourage you to actively subscribe to and
participate in FinanceNet mailing lists by browsing and replying
to messages. However, until you become accustomed to the
structure and nature of the lists, you may want to just browse
the messages at the beginning until you gain confidence. Also,
as you begin to acquaint yourself with the process, you may want
to limit your subscriptions to only those lists of particular
interest. This will also reduce the likelihood of an overloading
of your e-mail inbox.
HOW TO POST (SEND) MESSAGES AND RESPONSES TO THE LIST
By default, everything you post to the list goes to every
subscriber on the list, and the list may have thousands of
members. There are times when you only want to reply to the
individual that posted a particular message. Make sure you
address your message to that individual rather than simply using
the reply option on your e-mail service. The reply option will
send your message back to all members of the list.
Quoting In A Reply
If your e-mail package allows you to quote the message you are
replying to...USE IT. Don't quote the whole message...just quote
enough so that the other person understands what you are replying
to. Many members of a list get and send a lot of mail. They need
a memory jogger as to what you are talking about. If you don't
have a quote feature, add a reminder as part of your reply.
Be Brief
This is a gray area that requires good judgment, but the general
rule is to keep your posts to a list short and to the point (this
post is not a good example). Most subscribers are not looking
for 10 page books. If you have a lot to say, then send a message
to the list announcing your book and how they can request
it...DON'T drop a book into 2,000 mail boxes with out permission.
The practice of dropping large messages on a list is also a
problem for the list manager's equipment. The computer managing
the list has to work overtime when someone posts a huge document
to thousands of e-mail addresses.
To send a message to the entire list, always address it to the
list itself:
list-name@financenet.gov
Example: int-controls@financenet.gov
You may subscribe to as many lists as you like, but you will need
to keep in mind that should a message ever be sent to all of the
FinanceNet mailing lists (for instance a general interest message
from the FinanceNet Core Team), you will get a duplicate message
for every list you subscribe to.
SOME GOOD GENERAL MAILING LIST TIPS
A list service wants to avoid subscribing and unsubscribing users
on a case-by-case basis. Individuals send subscription service
commands directly to the list processor via e-mail messages
rather than relying on the list manager to manually and
laboriously do it for them. FinanceNet mailing lists are
expected to develop thousands of subscribers, so its not
practical for the manager to personally assist in subscription
service requests unless absolutely necessary.
The Listproc software sends a message back to a new subscriber
that explains how to unsubscribe from the list, set various list
service options and get additional help. A good practice is to
save that document for future reference. A good way to manage
this is to create a physical or electronic directory/folder
called Listproc (or what ever you like). Under that
directory/folder create directories for every list you subscribe
to. Next, store anything related to that service in its
directory for future referral.
Change of Addresses
If you know your e-mail address is going to change, unsubscribe
from ALL lists that you belong to before the address changes.
Then re-subscribe to them again using the new address. If you
wait till you are using the new address, the list manager will
have to unsubscribe you from the list under the old address. If
were unable to unsubscribe before your address changed, send a
subscribe message to the list and a second message to the manager
asking that your old address be removed.
THE DIGEST COMMAND
One excellent way to avoid e-mail inbox overloading, or to solve
the problem of a currently overloaded e-mail inbox, is to use the
"digest" command. This useful command will "digest" all messages
posted to a particular mailing list by sending you only _one_
message per day. That one message will include every message
sent to the list that day with a handy "index" to all the posted
messages up font to help you sort through the day's e-mail
traffic.
The only disadvantage to setting the "digest" option is that it
makes replying to any particular message in the "digest" more
difficult. To respond to a message buried within the "digest"
would require you to manually jot down the address of the sender,
and then address a separate message as your reply. We suggest
you use the "digest" setting only when necessary should your
e-mail inbox become overloaded.
To set the "digest" option (for the "int-controls" example),
include in the first line of the body of an e-mail message the
following command:
set <list> mail digest
Example: set int-controls mail digest
and send via e-mail to:
listproc@financenet.gov
The reversing listproc command to turn off digest option is:
set <list> mail ack
Example: set int-controls mail ack
__________________________________________________ ______________
WARNING: DO NOT send a list maintenance message for change of
address, the setting of special options, subscribe or unsubscribe
messages to the lists themselves (example above). Your list
maintenance message will go out to every member of the list and
will be quite disconcerting to everyone. Send any and all
automatic list maintenance and service commands only to:
listproc@financenet.gov
Send special subscription requests, comments or evaluations to:
support@financenet.gov
__________________________________________________ _______________
ADDITIONAL MAILING LIST INFORMATION
For additional information on FinanceNet Internet e-mail list
commands send the following request in the first line of the body
of an e-mail message:
help
and send to:
listproc@financenet.gov
For complete information on all FinanceNet services send a blank
e-mail message to:
info@financenet.gov
You will automatically receive a response by return e-mail with
complete details.
ALL THAT'S MISSING IS YOU
Remember that _you_ are the key to the success of FinanceNet. This
is _your_ medium. We enthusiastically encourage your active use
of these electronic libraries, mailing lists and discussion
forums. We also encourage your active promotion use of these
FinanceNet services among other government financial managers,
accountants and auditors. Again, only through active and
continuous use of FinanceNet services can we hope to improve
financial management policies and practices through this medium.
If you have questions, comments, service or document
recommendations for posting on FinanceNet servers, you are invited
to send e-mail to either of the following FinanceNet Core Team
Co-Chairs listed below. Your comments may even be posted on our
Gopher and WWW servers under "Evaluation and Comments," a sort of
"letters to the editor column."
FinanceNet Core Team Co-Chairs at the NPR:
B. Preston Rich, NSF, Internet: Preston.Rich@nsf.gov
Linda L.Hoogeveen, OMB, Internet: Hoogeveen_L@a1.eop.gov
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 1995 00:25:00 +0100
From: fnet-admin@financenet.gov
To: Siegfried Rambaum <siram@muc.de>
Subject: Financenet Internet Mailing Lists
************************************************** ****************
WELCOME TO THE FINANCENET INTERNET MAILING LISTS
************************************************** ****************
IMPORTANT DOCUMENT---------------------PLEASE PRINT, READ AND KEEP
WHAT IS FINANCENET?
We invite you to join together with thousands of other public and private
sector finance professionals, educators and taxpayers to share information
and ideas for improving the stewardship and accountability of taxpayer
resources at all levels of government. FinanceNet is your
opportunity to participate directly in reinventing government financial
management. FinanceNet is a worldwide network of people that spans Federal
executive agencies and departments, International, state, local and
municipal governments, professional organizations and taxpayers as it
crosses public-private sector boundaries to provide electronic libraries
and mailing lists to link participants in a global outreach effort to
improve the way governments manage the public's resources.
The mission of FinanceNet is to serve as a vehicle and catalyst for
continuous improvement and innovation, at all levels of government, in the
accountability and stewardship of public assets by impacting financial
management resources, practices, policies and professional standards.
Coordination and support are provided by Vice President Gore's National
Performance Review (NPR) in Washington, D.C. We chose the Internet to be
the exclusive communications link for FinanceNet because of the
substantial size and global dispersion of our audience.
We intend to provide a synergistic medium for the sharing of ideas,
successes, news, lessons learned, best practices and experiences through
Internet access to current and archival reference libraries of financial
legislation, Congressional testimony, executive orders and memoranda,
important meeting minutes and highlights, and OMB, GAO and Treasury
financial circulars, bulletins and releases. We also provide FinanceNet
with Internet mailing lists and discussion forums on a host of pertinent
topics to further stimulate dialog and information sharing within our
global government financial management community.
************************************************** ****************
FINANCENET INTERNET MAILING LISTS
************************************************** ****************
WHAT IS AN INTERNET MAILING LIST?
An Internet electronic mailing list is a register of Internet addresses of
individuals interested in automatically receiving new information
(documents, news, announcements, etc.) on a particular financial
management topic of interest. The FinanceNet mailing lists open for
public subscription use the "Listproc" program software to automatically
respond to specifically worded commands to subscribe and unsubscribe users
and to respond to certain "special option" commands that provide further
utility.
To subscribe, unsubscribe and set the various automatic options available,
you must be very careful to word your command exactly as advised.
Otherwise the automatic list management software will not recognize your
request and require you to repeat the command(s) correctly. You are
always notified when a command is either accepted or rejected. If a
command is rejected, the response you receive will usually describe the
error that you probably made in your command statement and recommend a
correction so that you can reissue the command properly.
Subscription to any of the FinanceNet e-mail lists is free and available
to anyone interested in improving government financial management through
the sharing of information and ideas. There are multiple e-mail lists
within the FinanceNet network, each dedicated to a government financial
management discipline or professional organization.
Each FinanceNet mailing list is "coordinated" by a member of the
FinanceNet Core Team who is familiar with the topic of the list.
Coordination involves monitoring the list, checking for and reporting
disruptive inflammatory messages, insuring that the appropriate new
documents, newsletters, journals, bulletins, circulars, or other pertinent
items of interest to the list membership get distributed to the list, and
making policy recommendations back to the Core Team for list enhancements.
You are free (in fact encouraged) to post pertinent documents, news or
announcements (or notices of the electronic location of same) to any of
the FinanceNet mailing lists. You are not required to be a subscriber to
a list to post to it. However, to receive distributions posted to a
particular list you must be a subscriber to that list.
All communications to the list (postings) are addressed to the list itself
(i.e. int-controls@financenet.gov). All subscription service requests
must always go to the list manager address (i.e. listproc@financenet.gov)
or they will not get processed.
FINANCENET MAILING LISTS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
Below is a current listing of all publicly available FinanceNet Internet
mailing lists open for subscription. Lists are intended for posting and
receiving all news, announcements, notices, information, comments, and
questions generally relating to the list topics. In many cases, the
information posted to the mailing lists will also be posted on the library
servers. Given first is the list title and second the list address to
send all messages intended to go to the entire list membership (see How to
Post Messages...). Under each list title are a few samples of appropriate
financial management topics that each list may address.
LISTNAME (topics) LIST ADDRESS
News news@financenet.gov
FinanceNet's "master" listserver, the "News" Internet e-mail list, is
intended as a distribution and discussion list to catalyze improvements in
the accountability and stewardship of public assets and taxpayer resources
at all levels of government. The "News" list is designed for the
distribution of general government financial management documents, news,
announcements and notices and to facilitate dialog across all geopolitical
boundaries on these issues. Participants are encouraged to post, or
cross-post, their own region's news announcements to this list for all to
share and to participate in dialog in sharing successes, best practices,
fresh ideas and approaches, etc. Because of its general nature, "News" is
likely to become a very popular and patronized list, and we suggest you
consider setting the "digest" option here to limit mailbox overload when
traffic builds.
State & County state-county@financenet.gov
(A distribution and discussion list for issues broadly relating to
government financial stewardship and taxpayer accountability issues at
state and county levels of government. Documents and discussions will
broadly relate to accounting matters, bonds, revenues and taxation,
budgets, systems, fees, licenses, audits, controls, payroll, and all other
issues of interest to local gov't financial managers and taxpayers.)
Municipal and Township MuniNet@financenet.gov
(A distribution and discussion list for issues relating to financial
accountability and stewardship of municipalities, towns and townships
within larger geopolitical jurisdictions. As in the "state-county" list,
documents and discussions will broadly relate to accounting matters,
bonds, revenues and taxation, budgets, systems, fees, licenses, audits,
controls, payroll, and all other issues of interest to clerks, and other
local gov't financial management staff and taxpayers. This list will also
provide a communications medium for the membership and agenda issues for
the International Institute of Municipal Clerks, and other local gov't
professional organizations).
BudgetNet budget-net@financenet.gov
(A distribution and discussion list for revenue, appropriation and
budget issues at all levels of government related to the mission
of BudgetNet, a NetResults network of people at the National
Performance Review.)
Internal Controls int-controls@financenet.gov
(A distribution list for issues relating to the Federal Financial
Managers Integrity Act; the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
high risk list; general government waste, fraud and abuse of
resources; related Inspector General audit findings and
recommendations; issues related OMB circulars A-123, A-127 and
A-50; and management control reviews and plans, etc.)
Financial Systems fin-systems@financenet.gov
(A distribution list for issues relating to systems integration,
core systems, systems requirements, computer hardware and
software, contractors, useful life, information architecture,
functional standards, data dictionaries, standard general ledger
implementation, cross-servicing, general improvements, etc.)
Performance Measures perf-measures@financenet.gov
(A distribution list for issues relating to the Government
Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA), outcome vs. output
measures, statistical presentation and reporting, performance
measures impact, development, standards, compliance, etc.)
Financial Policy fin-policy@financenet.gov
(A distribution list for issues relating to financial management
policy incorporated within OMB Circulars, Treasury Bulletins and
accounting standards from FASAB, GASB, etc.)
Financial Statements & Reporting fin-reporting@financenet.gov
(A distribution list for issues broadly relating to the various
financial reporting requirements of the Treasury and Office of
Management and Budget; financial statements issues, accountability
and stewardship reporting, policy, procedures, improvements,
standards, etc.)
Financial Audits fin-audits@financenet.gov
(A distribution list for issues relating to the relations between
the CFO and audit communities, agency audit findings and
recommendations, audit follow-up and validation procedures,
materiality thresholds, IG vs. IPA audits, financial audit
resources and staffing, etc.)
Asset/Liability Management asset-liab-mgt@financenet.gov
(A distribution list for issues relating to balance sheet issues,
of interest to subscribers across all geopolitical boundaries,
such as the government credit card; topically related legislation,
bulletins and circulars; receivables and payables, cash
reconciliations, cash advances and accounting issues, Prompt Pay,
heritage assets, R&D expenditures, capitalization, credit reform,
insurance and guarantee programs, contingencies, social insurance,
pension benefits, etc.)
Financial Personnel & Training fin-training@financenet.gov
(A distribution list for issues relating to postings for new
financial management training opportunities and vacancies,
personnel training issues and resources, course content,
professional readiness, applicant pool size, classification
standards, position descriptions, etc.)
Payroll payroll@financenet.gov
(A distribution list for issues broadly relating to payroll issues
at all levels of government.)
Travel travel@financenet.gov
(A distribution and discussion list for issues broadly relating to
improving travel administration at all levels of government.)
Procurement procurement@financenet.gov
(A distribution and discussion list for issues broadly relating to
procurement, and especially the Federal Electronic Commerce
Acquisition Team and electronic data interchange issues at all
levels of government.)
Listservers targeted to Professional Organizations and Other
Groups:
Association of Government Accountants aga@financenet.gov
JFMIP Distribution List JFMIP@financenet.gov
Government Finance Officers Assoc. GFOA@financenet.gov
HOW TO SUBSCRIBE
You can be automatically subscribed to any FinanceNet Internet
mailing list by following a few simple procedures exactly. The
list program will process your request and subscribe you to the
list only when your commands are worded correctly and in the
proper sequence. It is important to remember that the "Listproc"
program will not understand any commands, comments or verbiage
you might send in he body of your message that do not precisely
match the commands and instructions described below. Additional
verbiage will just confuse the software.
Although you may subscribe to as many FinanceNet mailing lists as
you like, we suggest that you subscribe to only one list per
message. You will be able to subscribe to any of the lists by
sending a simple Internet e-mail message. To begin you must
address your message to:
listproc@financenet.gov
DO NOT address your subscription request, or other list
maintenance or service request, to the list name itself (i.e.
int-controls@financenet.gov). Not only will your service request
not be understood or honored, your service message will go out to
all subscribers of record for that particular list. Your service
request message will more than likely be confusing and an irritant
to other subscribers. Repeating, all mailing list subscription
service request messages must be sent ONLY to:
listproc@financenet.gov
You may leave the subject blank on all list service requests.
However, you may want to include one for your own future
reference. For example, if you wanted to subscribe to the
FinanceNet list "int-controls" you would include in the first
line of the body of the mail message (case being unimportant) the
command:
subscribe list-name your name
example: subscribe int-controls John Doe
You must use your true name (John Doe) in the command above (not
your e-mail address), and, again, send via e-mail to:
listproc@financenet.gov
In the rare situation in which you may need personal attention
from a live individual relating to a special mailing list request
or problem, send your e-mail comment or request to the list
manager:
support@financenet.gov
Contacting the list manager for anything other than compliments
should be your last option...NOT your first. The whole idea is
that YOU manage your account with the list and the manager only
steps in when the need goes beyond what the list service will
allow you to do.
HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE
To unsubscribe (signoff) from any FinanceNet e-mail list simply
send in the first line of the body of a mail message the command:
unsubscribe list-name
example: unsubscribe int-controls
and send via e-mail to:
listproc@financenet.gov
Again, DO NOT address your "unsubscription" or other service
request to the particular mailing list name itself. All such
requests MUST go to the "listproc" address above. All service
requests do not require the subject line to be filled out,
although you may do so for your own record keeping if you like.
If you send your "unsubscribe" request to the list itself you
will NOT be unsubscribed, and everyone on the list will receive a
wasted message.
We enthusiastically encourage you to actively subscribe to and
participate in FinanceNet mailing lists by browsing and replying
to messages. However, until you become accustomed to the
structure and nature of the lists, you may want to just browse
the messages at the beginning until you gain confidence. Also,
as you begin to acquaint yourself with the process, you may want
to limit your subscriptions to only those lists of particular
interest. This will also reduce the likelihood of an overloading
of your e-mail inbox.
HOW TO POST (SEND) MESSAGES AND RESPONSES TO THE LIST
By default, everything you post to the list goes to every
subscriber on the list, and the list may have thousands of
members. There are times when you only want to reply to the
individual that posted a particular message. Make sure you
address your message to that individual rather than simply using
the reply option on your e-mail service. The reply option will
send your message back to all members of the list.
Quoting In A Reply
If your e-mail package allows you to quote the message you are
replying to...USE IT. Don't quote the whole message...just quote
enough so that the other person understands what you are replying
to. Many members of a list get and send a lot of mail. They need
a memory jogger as to what you are talking about. If you don't
have a quote feature, add a reminder as part of your reply.
Be Brief
This is a gray area that requires good judgment, but the general
rule is to keep your posts to a list short and to the point (this
post is not a good example). Most subscribers are not looking
for 10 page books. If you have a lot to say, then send a message
to the list announcing your book and how they can request
it...DON'T drop a book into 2,000 mail boxes with out permission.
The practice of dropping large messages on a list is also a
problem for the list manager's equipment. The computer managing
the list has to work overtime when someone posts a huge document
to thousands of e-mail addresses.
To send a message to the entire list, always address it to the
list itself:
list-name@financenet.gov
Example: int-controls@financenet.gov
You may subscribe to as many lists as you like, but you will need
to keep in mind that should a message ever be sent to all of the
FinanceNet mailing lists (for instance a general interest message
from the FinanceNet Core Team), you will get a duplicate message
for every list you subscribe to.
SOME GOOD GENERAL MAILING LIST TIPS
A list service wants to avoid subscribing and unsubscribing users
on a case-by-case basis. Individuals send subscription service
commands directly to the list processor via e-mail messages
rather than relying on the list manager to manually and
laboriously do it for them. FinanceNet mailing lists are
expected to develop thousands of subscribers, so its not
practical for the manager to personally assist in subscription
service requests unless absolutely necessary.
The Listproc software sends a message back to a new subscriber
that explains how to unsubscribe from the list, set various list
service options and get additional help. A good practice is to
save that document for future reference. A good way to manage
this is to create a physical or electronic directory/folder
called Listproc (or what ever you like). Under that
directory/folder create directories for every list you subscribe
to. Next, store anything related to that service in its
directory for future referral.
Change of Addresses
If you know your e-mail address is going to change, unsubscribe
from ALL lists that you belong to before the address changes.
Then re-subscribe to them again using the new address. If you
wait till you are using the new address, the list manager will
have to unsubscribe you from the list under the old address. If
were unable to unsubscribe before your address changed, send a
subscribe message to the list and a second message to the manager
asking that your old address be removed.
THE DIGEST COMMAND
One excellent way to avoid e-mail inbox overloading, or to solve
the problem of a currently overloaded e-mail inbox, is to use the
"digest" command. This useful command will "digest" all messages
posted to a particular mailing list by sending you only _one_
message per day. That one message will include every message
sent to the list that day with a handy "index" to all the posted
messages up font to help you sort through the day's e-mail
traffic.
The only disadvantage to setting the "digest" option is that it
makes replying to any particular message in the "digest" more
difficult. To respond to a message buried within the "digest"
would require you to manually jot down the address of the sender,
and then address a separate message as your reply. We suggest
you use the "digest" setting only when necessary should your
e-mail inbox become overloaded.
To set the "digest" option (for the "int-controls" example),
include in the first line of the body of an e-mail message the
following command:
set <list> mail digest
Example: set int-controls mail digest
and send via e-mail to:
listproc@financenet.gov
The reversing listproc command to turn off digest option is:
set <list> mail ack
Example: set int-controls mail ack
__________________________________________________ ______________
WARNING: DO NOT send a list maintenance message for change of
address, the setting of special options, subscribe or unsubscribe
messages to the lists themselves (example above). Your list
maintenance message will go out to every member of the list and
will be quite disconcerting to everyone. Send any and all
automatic list maintenance and service commands only to:
listproc@financenet.gov
Send special subscription requests, comments or evaluations to:
support@financenet.gov
__________________________________________________ _______________
ADDITIONAL MAILING LIST INFORMATION
For additional information on FinanceNet Internet e-mail list
commands send the following request in the first line of the body
of an e-mail message:
help
and send to:
listproc@financenet.gov
For complete information on all FinanceNet services send a blank
e-mail message to:
info@financenet.gov
You will automatically receive a response by return e-mail with
complete details.
ALL THAT'S MISSING IS YOU
Remember that _you_ are the key to the success of FinanceNet. This
is _your_ medium. We enthusiastically encourage your active use
of these electronic libraries, mailing lists and discussion
forums. We also encourage your active promotion use of these
FinanceNet services among other government financial managers,
accountants and auditors. Again, only through active and
continuous use of FinanceNet services can we hope to improve
financial management policies and practices through this medium.
If you have questions, comments, service or document
recommendations for posting on FinanceNet servers, you are invited
to send e-mail to either of the following FinanceNet Core Team
Co-Chairs listed below. Your comments may even be posted on our
Gopher and WWW servers under "Evaluation and Comments," a sort of
"letters to the editor column."
FinanceNet Core Team Co-Chairs at the NPR:
B. Preston Rich, NSF, Internet: Preston.Rich@nsf.gov
Linda L.Hoogeveen, OMB, Internet: Hoogeveen_L@a1.eop.gov
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