To: Region 3 ExCom 
Fr: David Green, Region 3 ECC 
Sb: Electronic Communications Coordinator Report 
Dt: 5 July 2005

As a Region (perhaps as a society), we continue to rely on e-mail even
in this day of other collaborative tools.  I would note that these
systems require attention so that problems don't occur.  In my last
report, I noted:

  * Two ExCom members who mail boxes overflowed
  * A problem where AOL has decided that mail from IEEE was spam thus
    blocking all mail through the IEEE servers to AOL users.
  * A problem with the IEEE alias servers resulting in a >3 day delay in   
    mail processing.

All of these have been cleared except on ExCom member's mailbox has
overflowed again.  Everyone needs to watch for this problem and clear it
as soon as it occurs.

As Bill Ratcliff mentioned in his report, he and I attended an ITSC
workshop on the Professional Engineering Environment of the future where
we and others are trying to agree on a direction for products like IEEE
Virtual Communities (of the future).

I have assisted (a minor amount) star trainer Charles Lord in his award
winning performance on e-conference 101.  This Internet Meeting is a
good 1 hour start-up or reminder for e-conferencing with either the Web
Browser Client or the mIRC client.  I strongly urge committee chairs to
both attend and have their committee's attend this training so that
e-meetings with trained participants can occur.  The next show plays at
9pm EDST on 16 July 2005.  See Bill Ratcliff's report for details.

If you are (and you should be!) using your @ieee.org alias, then you may
wish to review your spam-blocking rules at IEEE.  Go to
https://uce.ieee.org/ to set up or check your settings.  For those, who
were early adopters, it is now possible to block at one level and tag at
another level.  See the above web site for details.