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AADC will soon be offering its members a “listserve” that is exclusive to the AADC members, free with membership, and will support their different areas of practice. As a member of AADC you are already a subscriber to the listserve.
A listserve is a centralized e-mail “mailings list” for a group, in this case, AADC members. It will allow AADC members to informally discuss different areas of professional interest, get questions answered and share innovative ideas through the convenience of their home or office e-mail systems. Members subscribe to the listserve, and then any e-mail that is sent to the list's address is mass-mailed to everyone who is a subscriber to that list. This should prove to be an efficient and cost-effective way to disseminate information to, and receive responses from AADC members.
Typically, legal listserves are used by members to collect information on expert witnesses, judges, current or perplexing legal issues, etc. A listserve is also a convenient way to share pleadings and motions. It will allow AADC members to stay on top of legal issues by continuously networking year round. Moreover, it will allow the AADC to itself distribute information of interest to all members: upcoming social events, seminars, employment opportunities, and the like. AADC will also benefit from being able to collect information from its members about ways it can improve its offerings to its members.
AADC plans to start with four separate mailing lists: General Membership, Employment Law, Medical Malpractice, and Construction Defects. You are currently a subscriber to the General Membership list, but you join any other list by simply expresses your interest to Debbie Hanson at admin@azadc.org. You can choose to be a member of any, all, or any combination of lists. These separate lists are designed to encourage effective communication among members with similar interests. This commonality of interest ensures that members will be receiving e-mails relating to topics of concern to them.
Sending e-mail to all AADC members through the listserve is called “posting” a message. To post a message to the list, you send mail to the list address using the same procedure as when you send mail to other people, except that the recipient will be the name of the AADC listserve. Your e-mail program will take care of the rest. The listserve immediately distributes your e-mail. The respective e-mail addresses are:
General Membership à Members@AZADC.org
Construction Defects à ConstructionDefect@AZADC.org
Employment Law à EmploymentLaw@AZADC.org
Medical Malpractice à MedicalMalpractice@AZADC.org
When responding to a message there are some general considerations to keep in mind. First, use the "reply" function of your mail program (which is sometimes called "answer", "respond" or something similar). This way the message subject is preserved and the other subscribers can see that your message is a reply to the original question. You can, of course, post a new message, but you will then have to retype the subject, and if you enter something slightly different, people may not realize it is a reply to a previous posting. Second, you should ordinarily reply just to the sender unless you feel that your response is also of general interest. Third, depending on the question, the answer may be better delivered by telephone. Fourth, don't be shy! The system will work best if there is an active, ongoing, collaborative dialogue among AADC members.
Be polite. Be courteous. Be deferential. The AADC listserve is private and subscriber-approved. Only AADC members will be permitted access to it. Nevertheless, e-mail is notoriously difficult to control, is easily (and frequently inadvertently) distributed, and may serve as a later embarrassment to its author. So, play nice.
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