RuralMed

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

The RuralMed Electronic Mailing List is a forum for rural physicians, and about rural medicine. This mailing list was started in 1995 as an initiative of the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada. It is an attempt to create a network of physicians in rural practice, as well as others in universities or elsewhere with an interest in rural medicine. Although RURALMED has a Canadian focus, international participants are also welcome. It's purpose is to support rural practitioners, whether they be rural GP/FPs or rural specialists, by providing a forum for discussion, debate, and the exchange of ideas and information.

RURALMED is the largest of any rural medical lists in Canada, it has over three hundred members. If you are going to subscribe to any list, this should be the one you choose. Access available to all SRPC members.

The Rural Anesthesia Discussion list. The purpose of this email list is to serve as a forum for those practicing or interested in rural anesthesia in Canada. This is a closed list, which means your subscription will be held for approval. This is also a private list. Members can email or fill in the form to be added Ruralanesthesia List

Instructions and Subscription Info

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

Once added, you can post a message to the RuralMed discussion group that has over 350 members by sending an email to ruralmed@lists.mcgill.ca

If you are signed up for the RuralMedStudent discussion group send your email to RuralMedStudent@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 main list. 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: (you will not get any attachments)
set ruralmed digest
To turn off digest and go back to individual messages:
set ruralmed Nodigest
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:

They look like viruses any many will delete unopened
They can be bulky and tie up low speed rural connections
The recipients may not have the program needed to open the file
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.