Instructions and Subscription Info

SRPC Members that wish to subscribe to RuralMed, MedRurale or Student RuralMed please send a request to jennak@srpc.ca

Once added, you can post a message to the RuralMed discussion group by sending an email to ruralmed@lists.mcgill.ca 

To change your RuralMed subscription, you must of course already be subscribed and you must be able to post a message to the list. The listserver only allows one to post a message when using the same "reply-to" address as appears in one's subscription. Thus, if your e-mail address has changed or your computer settings have changed or you are trying to post a message or change your subscription from a different computer, you may have problems. As well, some of the 'free' e-mail services add messages to the bottom of your e-mail and these messages have been known to interfere with sending commands. If this is the case, please send a message to Jennak@srpc.ca explaining the change you would like to make. Please don't send 'unsubscribe' or other such commands to the mainlist. Send these requests or any other commands to listserv@lists.mcgill.ca

Commands are placed as a single line in the body of an e-mail, preferably with no other words, sent to listserv@lists.mcgill.ca

Some of the commands available to make changes are:

• To leave the list:
• signoff ruralmed
  
  
• To temporarily suspend your subscription:
• set ruralmed nomail
  
  
• To resume your subscription:
• set ruralmed mail
  
  
• To receive only a digest of a days posting rather than individual messages:
• set ruralmed digest
  
  
• To see your current RuralMed settings, and see what your options are available:
• query ruralmed
  
  
• To change your RuralMed address (do this before you change the "reply-to" settings on your computer):
• change ruralmed your_new@address.here
  
  
• To see what other commands are available:
• info refcard

Attachments
Please do not provide unsolicited attachments for the following reasons:

1. They look like viruses any many will delete unopened
2. They can be bulky and tie up low speed rural connections
3. The recipients may not have the program needed to open the file
4. They can not be opened by any people who get Rural Med as a digest

Instead please post a link to the file or offer to send the file to people who request it.

Formatted Text
While most on Rural Med will be able to make out HTML encoded text, All rural med listers will be able to read plain unformatted text (ANSII / ASCII ). Please set your e-mail program to this setting for outgoing mail.

Quoting Previous Text
In replying to an e-mail, take care not to quote the entire text unless it is brief. Your point will be made more forceful if you quote just the part that you are commenting on.

Decorum
You are posting to over 500 people including medical students, rural doctors and nurse practitioners.  Please ensure that you use professional decorum and collegiality at all times.

Advertisements
Occasional personal advertisement for locums or the like are welcome. We reserve the right to remove from the list any entity that we deem to be commercial that would use Rural Med for targeted advertisement.  If you would like to advertise an even on our event board or place a classified ad please get in touch with Jenna.

Information expressed on Rural Med are the views of the author(s) and not necessarily of the SRPC except when labelled as policy.