[Ldsoss] Elders Quorum Organizer

[A. Rick Anderson]

Greg Hart wrote:
>> The great achilles heel of using the church's system for emailing  is 
>> that only
>> the individual can edit his or her own email address.
> 
> 
> Couldn't agree more.  The problem lies in the fact that email  addresses 
> and preferred names are not sync'ed with MLS like phone  numbers and 
> addresses are.  I would also add to the achilles the fact  that only 
> individuals, not Admins, can subscribe/unsubscribe email  addresses to 
> specific Email Broadcast groups.  These are both on the  Suggestions for 
> Ward Websites wiki and will hopefully not fall on  deaf ears (blind 
> eyes?).  Until these limitations are addressed, I  suspect units will 
> continue to stretch the "no ward email groups"  policy, simply because 
> there's no good alternative.

What is really annoying is when you get an individual who signed up for 
every mailing, and then entered a bad email address.  As the ward 
webmaster, you get a bounced email notice for every calendar event that 
gets sent out, for every bad email address.

Even if you override the account, via record number / confirmation date, 
you can't delete an email address.  Evidently, some use-case deficient 
Javascript wannabe in Salt Lake never considered that you could have 
access to the internet without having a valid email address.

So I end up having to unsubscribe the person from every mailing list, 
then enter No at email.com as the email address.  Unfortunately, this 
process forces me to change their password.

However, it will come as no surprise to folks on this list that I have 
yet to have a single one of these members notice that they can't log 
into their account anymore.

-- 
A. Rick Anderson