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E-Mail

For SPCA to communicate effectively with the members has always been a
time consuming as well as expensive process, by way of printing and postage
costs and distribution to forum members could therefore be slow.

Surveys and opinions could not readily be communicated to all members
to elicit their opinions on current issues and often replies gained were not
timely received to be reflected in our communications to Government
Departments. Often when the Scottish Government issue consultation
documents which ask for interested parties, including SPCA, to give them
views on their proposals, they have deadlines for us to give our views on
their proposals – those relevant to parents and schools are obviously
of great importance to us, but often replies from members are late – like
voting at your polling station a day late – there’s no point asking to be
counted after the result of the vote has been decided and the closing
date has passed.

In the past sending messages to personal e-mail addresses has not been the
best solution, as it relied on busy members letting us and others know when
they changed e-mail address – we were last on the list and often e-mail
was just returned to sender.

So here is our solution – we provide all Parent Councils inScotland with their
own dedicated individual e-mail address for us to communicate to them
and for them to communicate to us.

Most IBM compatible computers (PC) use MS Outlook Express or more
recently MS Windows Mail, while others may be using MS Outlook 2000,
XP, 2003, or 2007. Login details have been supplied to all Parent Councils in
Scotland so that the Chair, Secretary or other designated person of each Council,
can set up an e-mail account on a computer for receiving regular mailings
from us as well as surveys / straw polls for them to give SPCA a quick response.