In this modern age, a large fraction of the communications within The Augustan Society, Inc., and between the Society's various officers and the world at large, are conducted by email. This requires both a physical system for sending and receiving email, and the policies and procedures needed to keep it all working as intended.
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==Email Address Conventions==
Society email addresses are a desirable feature, but for maximum clarity and efficiency, they need to be assigned in a logical and consistent manner.
# Officers — <''title''@augustansociety.org>, with most multi-word titles condensed to a single word where not confusing. Where a title is duplicated (as with Dean), words or acronyms are added for clarification.
# Committees — <''name''.comm@augustansociety.org>, but a few exceptions exist, such as <finance@augustansociety.org> for the Finance Committee. These should probably be eliminated over time.
# Individuals — <''firstname.lastname''@augustansociety.net>. Hypenated names use the hyphen. For compound surnames without a hyphen, only the first is used. Prepositional surnames are condensed (thus Von Leden is given vonleden). Apostrophes and diacritical marks are omitted.
# Outside agencies — <''acronym''.c-o@augustansociety.com>, though this may soon be discontinued for lack of use.
# Lower case characters are to be used in all cases, and no punctuation other than periods, hyphens, and slashes, and those only as described above.
==Content Policies==
In order that communications from officers of The Augustan Society, Inc., be properly identified, the following policies have been adopted by the [[Board]]:
While it is strongly preferred that email be sent from Society addresses, it is understood that some officers may not have the technical skills needed to so configure their email accounts, and some email systems may not permit this. [[Consuls]] will provide technical support only for software that may, from time to time, be in use at Headquarters.
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