BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members

Subject: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Dec 03 - 01:10 PM

This thread really only pertains to members of the emailed prayer chain many Mudcatters belong to. I'm posting it because of ongoing mailbox difficulties which we are trying to eliminate so that the prayer chain can run more simply with more volunteer help. This message mostly duplicates what was just sent from the prayer chain's mailbox, with one important addition about BCCs not being screened out as spam.

There are some admin changes coming that will affect the operation of the prayer chain. Two people are considering coming on board as admins-- please pray for them to see if this is a task they can do, and if so, how. If new helpers come on board, or if I continue to keep the chain going, the mailbox is going to have to operate much more simply than it has been.

Strictly administratively, there is a BIG change coming on our end, aimed at eliminating the spam that can clog the box and cause messages requesting prayer to be rejected.

PLEASE READ AND UNDERSTAND ALL OF THE FOLLOWING.

<> Effective December 15, 2003, ONLY messages from prayer chain members' recognized email addresses will be accepted. Hotmail will automatically reject all other incoming mail to the prayer chain address.

<> This means that I need a confirming reply from each and every one of you that wants to keep getting messages, so I can click that address into the individual contacts address list, along with any others you supply . (Right now you all appear entries in a group-list.) This will also help me determine who does and does not really participate; right now about 1/4 of all messages sent to the group bounce back as undeliverable.   Recipients not replying by Dec. 15 will be removed from the recipients' list.

<> Messages are sent with recipients' listed as BCCs. If you have not already done so, and you want to keep getting prayer chain messages, you need to be sure the messages are not being screened out by YOUR email program, as spam. Email programs have different ways of doing that. PM me if you are not sure what the prayer chain email address is, to change your settings to accept the messages.

<> If you change your email address in future, you will need to let us know FIRST by sending us a notice of the new address FROM the existing address we know you by.

<> It also means that should anything happen to you, people wanting to let us know about it will have to do it from YOUR email address, or via Mudcat channels.

As you reply, please include something you are thankful for, so I can circulate that out to the group after the 15th. That's how you will know I received and processed your reply!

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Dec 03 - 03:39 PM

Thanks, to the many folks who have emailed. Still waiting to hear from several more.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 06:32 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 02:18 PM

Eearly refresh in anticipation of a busy evening and morrow!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: Greg F.
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 02:24 PM

Why not refresh this every fifteen minutes? I suspect interested people are intelligent enough to use the search function to find this, no?

Alhamdullah.

Greg

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 02:27 PM

Not if they have BCCs blocked and therefore have no idea they should be looking for it.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: Greg F.
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 06:53 PM

Perhaps if you all prayed they would find it?

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 08:05 PM

Keep me on the list and thank you for approving my position on the administrative board.

Sincerely thankful,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 10:11 PM

That Garg-- he's such a riot!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 11:32 AM

Thinking of adding a new feature if I keep this chain goging, which it looks now as if I will and hopefully with designated on-call helpers to check the box frequently, a month at a time or something.

Anyway, after seeing what happened with two recent bereavement threads, I could offer a sublist within the existing mailbox for people struggling with the smae issue, who would like to be in private communication with a small group of others in the same boat. The new way I will be organizing the contacts list would make that pretty simple. As long as it did not fill up with things needing a rapid distribution (every few days at best), I could do that.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 11:53 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 11:59 AM

You've posted and refreshed this thread for seven days running with no responses from you "current prayer chain members". Perhaps it is time to let the thread rest in peace?

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 01:55 PM

Replies have been via email. This thread was planned to reach, and has reached, people who had been missing email messages because of their email settings. The thread needed to run till the published deadline-- the 15th. It's a notice, not a discussion. That's all there is to it.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 Feb 04 - 11:17 AM

Refreshing, with reason.

To the attention of Prayer Chain folks:

In summary of the above, Prayer Chain members who did not reply to an email message by Dec. 15 were removed from the member list.

If you have not been getting messages (this past two weeks, for example), but you do want to be getting them, please PM me with your current email address.

Thanks,

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 07 Feb 04 - 08:07 PM

Can't you just use your god to magic this sort of stuff around? If he/she is as willing as you think to act on your collective pleas, passing on a few messages would hardly be much trouble.

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: Bobert
Date: 07 Feb 04 - 09:17 PM

Idiot Bobert here, Susan.

I've been gettin' the Prayer Chain emails and would like very much to continue doing so, ahhhhh

1. Do I need to do anything else to stay active or..

2. If so, like what?

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 Feb 04 - 09:54 PM

Naw, Bobird, youse fahn.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Feb 04 - 06:51 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Feb 04 - 02:07 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: Pseudolus
Date: 09 Feb 04 - 02:22 PM

I'd like to ask the prayer chain to pray for the people who wish the thread would go away and then perpetuate it by responding!

PM's on the way susan, I'd like to be added......

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: Greg F.
Date: 10 Feb 04 - 10:33 AM

What about a Curse Chain or a perhaps a Damnation Chain? Or a Spell Casting Chain? A Psychokinesis Chain? A Channelling Chain? Possibly an Alien Abduction Chain? Why stop with (christian) prayer?

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Feb 04 - 10:39 AM

Who says all members of the prayer chain are Christian?

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: Bobjack
Date: 10 Feb 04 - 10:55 AM

Or human!

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 10 Feb 04 - 12:32 PM

The one thread I never need to worry aboutr refreshing, LOL!

~S~

Subject: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 04:30 PM

A lot of prayer requests come to me via PM so I am posting this here...

The prayer chain is suspended till we get back from vacation around August 8. Nobody's minding the mailbox this time! :~)

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: open mike
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 05:21 PM

so just send requests via ESP, telekinesis, or other means!
I am on a list of people who walk a labyrinth while sending
and/or receiving energy regarding prayer-like needs of folks.
So when you get back and can add me, I will add these requests
while walking!

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Jul 04 - 04:11 PM

I didn't know the good LORD kept hours or took holidays -

GARGOYLE

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Jul 04 - 12:39 PM

HE doesn't garg - but unlike HIM we mere mortals need to communicate occasionally.

try it sometime - you might find it helps get your point across.

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Aug 04 - 08:08 PM

Open for business once again. If you thought you were a member of it and did NOT just get a message from it, PM me. If you want to consider joining, PM me.

If you PM me-- always, always please include your email addy.

Thanks,

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: Greg F.
Date: 20 Aug 04 - 09:21 AM

Jalapeño

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Aug 04 - 10:47 AM

PiriPiri al la Emeril

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 20 Aug 04 - 11:02 AM

"I'd like to ask the prayer chain to pray for the people who wish the thread would go away and then perpetuate it by responding!"

Presumably this was followed up? But it doesn't seem to be working. Oh dear...prayer chain fails again. (No wonder tey get so many bereavements to deal with.)

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: hesperis
Date: 20 Aug 04 - 07:39 PM

Please pray for my teeth... I need a root canal and it's almost to the emergency stage. I also need wisdom teeth taken out and cannot afford either surgery. There are also about four other teeth that need cavities filled before they become serious enough to need root canals. I already owe $659 US that I have no way of paying off for a previous emergency root canal where I was so sick from infection that I was throwing up in the bathtub.

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 21 Aug 04 - 04:26 PM

hesperis, I feel for you. If I thought it would work, I'd pray. If I had a few dollars to spare, I'd send them. But I've just lashed out on a new uilleann pipes chanter, and I haven't a cent to my name.

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 21 Aug 04 - 04:41 PM

Hes, of course I will send that out to the chain, but please-- everyone else--

This thread is NOT a place to put prayer requests. Instead, please contact me privately.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: Greg F.
Date: 22 Aug 04 - 10:48 AM

Hal-o-peridol! Amen.

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Aug 04 - 08:23 PM

Just a teeny prayer for me, Sue? I'd like a few hundred dollars to help out Hesperis. If it works, I promise I'll spread the word. (Or "PP" - publication promised - as they used to put at the end of classified ads in the Irish News, pleading for divine intervention.)

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 22 Aug 04 - 08:26 PM

Sorry, that guest was me. (Don't tell me, you guessed.) I'd logged out to foment mischief in another thread and forgot to log back in again.

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 22 Aug 04 - 10:45 PM

Thanks for all the refreshes, boys. :~)

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 23 Aug 04 - 12:33 AM

Hello, i've got bad teeth as well.

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: Janie
Date: 29 Oct 04 - 11:17 PM

To All Prayer Chain Members,

I want to try to let everyone know that I am running into some problems with forwarding prayer requests. (Me being technologically challenged is part, but not all of the problem.) As best as I can determine, no prayer requests received beginning 10/25 have been forwarded. I am awaiting consultation from Susan's main back-up (I just now messaged them), and hope to get the e-pipeline flowing again quickly. In the meantime, please accept my apologies. I understand that these things can happen, especially when one is a novice at a task, but I still feel really bad to not be able to forward these requests. Please offer your prayers for all beings in need, suffering, solace, or thanksgiving. And also for me, that I get this mess straightened out.

Many thanks,

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: Dead Horse
Date: 30 Oct 04 - 08:26 PM

unrefresh!

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: Greg F.
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 12:16 AM

Hmmm..... Jesus the I.T. tech- interesting.

Can he fix printers, too? Mine's on the fritz.

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 30 Aug 06 - 10:23 AM

This thread really only pertains to members of the emailed prayer chain many Mudcatters belong to.


ADMINISTRATIVE NOTICE

I have a number of email addy's now bouncing on the prayer chain email list. My life is much busier these days, so if you're on the Chain and you stop getting messages-- please take a moment to drop me a PM with your new email address because I may not get around to chasing you down. Or you can email me from your old address before the change, because (as is posted above) the mailbox is set to accept only mail from known addresses.

Thanks,

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 10:15 AM

refresh

You know who you are....

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: MMario
Date: 13 Sep 06 - 09:47 AM

WYSIWYG's e-mail is down...

IO will be sending out a notice to that effect on the chain as soon as I can - but can't access from work.

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 14 May 07 - 10:52 AM

Reminder-- if participant's email addy changes, I need to know via PM or for you to let us know by sending us a notice of the new address from the existing address we know you by.

The email box's spam settings are set to receive only from known adddresses, so anyone's notified me of an addy change there from a new addy, I will not have received it.

Thanks,

~Susan

PS, this will be refreshed several times over the next week or so.

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 27 Oct 08 - 09:36 AM

After a long hiatus from monitoring the prayer chain email inbox, my computer is finally up to speed to help me get back on daily monitoring.

I believe some of the members have changed email addresses, because some messages have bounced as undeliverable.

If this applies to you, you did not receive the prayer chain message sent today. I need to know via PM or for you to let us know by sending us a notice of the new address from the OLD address we already know you by.

The email box's spam settings are set to receive only from known adddresses, so if anyone's notified me of an addy change sent to the chain mailbox from a new addy, I will not have received it.

Thanks,

~Susan

PS, this will be refreshed several times over the next week or so to "catch" infrequent Mudscatters' eyes.

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 27 Oct 08 - 10:13 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 01:06 PM

refresh