ESA Newsletter December 2000:

ESA Newsletter: December 2000

Website and ESA Email

Just when you thought you had worked out where to direct your browser, things are going to change. The Royal Australasian College of Physicians, which supports the ESA Website, has undertaken to change the format of its homepage and therefore associated websites (including ESA's) will also need to undergo some changes. We have been assured that these changes will be for the good, and involve the sites becoming far more interactive. As members, this will mean that ESA may be able to support internet discussion groups of members with similar sub-specialty interests, on-line application for membership and payment of dues and even on-line registration for Annual Scientific Meetings and the like. The changes will not be in place until January or February of 2001, and we are not sure at this stage if it will involve a change of web address. The current website will remain active until at least then, and if there are changes in the web address members will be informed by email. The only major change envisaged for the current web site is the addition of a "Positions Vacant" column. This will enable members to advertise jobs they have, or know are, available. Advertisements can be sent to Ivone Johnson at esa@racp.edu.au who will post the ads on the website.

An ESA email service was launched by Council about four months ago, and appears to have been met with general approval. Despite the crys up and down the nation of "Not another email from Ivone Johnson", most members have not complained too loudly. Council is fully aware of the irritation that can be generated by unsolicited emails (we get enough of them ourselves), but believes that the email service can be of use to the majority of members.

To post an email message, please send the details to Ivone Johnson (esa@racp.edu.au). Each email is ratified by a member of the executive of ESA council prior to its dispatch. Also remember that if you do not wish to avail yourself of this service, it is very easy to unsubscribe. Just reply to the email with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject box, and your name will be removed from the email list. Instructions about how to unsubscribe are also included with each ESA email message.

Ben Canny

<<Table of Contents - ESA Newsletter December 2000