The Benefits of Email Aliases

Posted in Local Editor Resources on March 19, 2003

Heard of email aliases, but aren’t sure why you need them? Read this explanation, originally posted to the editors’ email list by Communications Officer Tyger Gilbert. Thanks to Tyger for giving us permission to post it here as well.

“You might want to consider
using an aliased e-ddress that can be set up for you.
Through your existing website server, it would be
something like:



Editor@xmensan.org [*see note below]


Through the AML website server, it probably would be:



Editor@x.us.mensa.org



You would publish this as your “official” e-ddress and
all e-mail going to it would be forwarded automatically
to whatever e-ddress you personally have. When you
are no longer editor, the official e-ddress would stay
the same, but it would be changed to forward to the
personal e-ddress of the new editor.



An added advantage, besides not having to pay for a
special e-ddress, is that you still can use your existing
personal e-ddress without having it published to the
world in the newsletter and website, and you wouldn’t
have to access e-mail from two different locations.



All of the officers of your local group could have these
set up for them also. You would have to contact your
webmaster or maybe your ISP to have these created on
your existing server, or you would contact Kim Lovering
at the National Office to have them created on the AML
server. Other aliases would be:



LocSec@x.us.mensa.org

AsstLocSec@x.us.mensa.org

Treasurer@x.us.mensa.org . . . etc.



Of course, there is no cost for this on the AML server.”

[Note: This was originally posted in response to a particular group’s email addresses; we have replaced the references to that group’s email with ‘x’ to avoid confusion.]