The next Mass E-mail User Group meeting is Tuesday, October 27 from 1-2:30 p.m. in Morrill Hall 238A.

First up will be presentation and discussion on tips, tricks, and best practices for the plain text part of your message, held over from September. What do you do to format the plain text part of your message? What can you do to make it more usable in Gophermail? How does your writing differ from content in the HTML part?

The second part of the meeting is TBD, and we're looking for input. Here are a few options:

• More on the text part of messages, including standards and policy.
• How to use suppression lists and purging to hone audiences.
• What is success? How do you measure yours?
• Other. Send an e-mail to ecomm@umn.edu, or if you're a list member start a discussion on ecomm-email-talk@lists.umn.edu)

If you choose the "other" option, we'll call on you to lead or help lead that part of the discussion. Who better to facilitate than the person who wants to know more?

No need to register or RSVP unless you'll be attending remotely. Audio is done over conference call and screen sharing over UMConnect. Send a note to ecomm@umn.edu no later than Monday the 26th if you're interested in attending remotely.

We'll have some sort of afternoon treat, but it is BYOB(everage).