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From: "Jeff Coleman" <>
Subject: Re: Prevention of Duplicate Registrations by Volunteers
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 23:50:57 -0000
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Is it worth putting a piece in somewhere about AOL regularly hiding the
automated reply from FreeBMD after first stage of registration in the spam
folder?

Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Allan Raymond" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 11:12 PM
Subject: Prevention of Duplicate Registrations by Volunteers


> Co-ordinator Colleagues
>
> Help me to help you!
>
> A further polite reminder due to continuing problems with duplicate
> registrations. I've just had to deal with yet another instance of a
> volunteer setting up a duplicate registration. This causes
> additional work for both myself and hence eventually Co-ordinators when
> they
> have to delete/enter volunteers details into their Syndicates.
>
> Our computer boffins have provided facilities to enable me to quickly
> identify possible duplicate registrations.
>
> New volunteers to FreeBMD register via the registration page at:
>
> http://www.freebmd.org.uk/join?coord=******
>
> To assist the administration process and prevent duplicate registrations
> by
> volunteers the following
> message greet volunteers when they reach the registration page. We have
> even
> changed the wording
> over time to align with comments received from volunteers who had set up
> duplicate registrations.
>
> ****************************************************************************
> Welcome to the FreeBMD Registration.
>
> Volunteers only require one SubmitterID regardless of the number of
> Syndicates they belong to. If
> you have previously transcribed for FreeBMD please continue to use your
> existing SubmitterID even if
> you intend to join another Syndicate or have been inactive for a long
> period
> of time. If you have
> forgotten your SubmitterID or your password, if you have changed your
> email
> address, or if you
> experience any problems involving your registration, please contact the
> Volunteer Coordinator with
> details of the problem.
>
> To register as a FreeBMD Submitter please fill in the form below and click
> on Register
>
> You will be sent an email to confirm your registration within the next 12
> hours. It is vital that
> you supply the correct email address.
>
> Please contact the Volunteer Coordinator if you do not receive an email to
> confirm your
> registration; do NOT attempt to re-register.
> ****************************************************************************
>
> (Note: There's a clickable link from Volunteer Coordinator to
> .)
>
> Despite our best endeavours, volunteers are still continuing to set up
> duplicate registrations for whatever reasons. This involves quite a bit of
> administration effort to resolve the problem.
>
> To resolve this problem at source it would be appreciated if Co-ordinators
> could mention to their new volunteers "if they already have a SubmitterID
> they do not need to set up another".
>
> If any Co-ordinator is NOT advising their potential new volunteers about
> this aspect could they please let me know why this should be so?
>
> The fact volunteers are joining another Syndicate or have changed their
> email address/name does not a require a new SubmitterID.
>
> An email by volunteers or Co-ordinators to Volunteer Coordinator at:
> can resolve 100% of problems involving
> registrations.
>
> Regards
>
> Allan Raymond
>
>
>
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