Rapid Eye Email Discussion Group

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

NOTE: You must be a certified RET technician or a technician in training to join the RET Discussion Group.

Last updated: 14 Oct 2011

First some reminders:

1) Please remember that your emails to this forum (and replies to it) are read by a community of people, not just the one person you may be addressing.

2) Please remember that you are addressing a real person, a human being with feelings and not a computer.

3) Please remember that if you make a comment, other people are perfectly entitled to disagree with it without their response being construed as a personal attack.

4) Please remember that by participating in this forum you subscribe to rules of conduct and that the moderators are entitled to edit or delete posts they consider inappropriate or to permanently ban offending members of the group.

The Questions

1. How do I subscribe to, unsubscribe from, or change my email address for the RET Discussion group?
2. What topics are discussed on the RET Discussion group?
3. What should NOT be posted to the RET Discussion group?
4. Who administers the RET Discussion group?
5. How do I access the message archive?
6. Other Mailing Lists

The Answers

1. How do I subscribe to, or unsubscribe from the RET Discussion group?

To subscribe or unsubscribe, fill out the following form. You must be a certified RET technician to join the RET discussion group.

To change your email address, use the following form.

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2. What topics are discussed on the RET Discussion group?

Here's the inaugural description:
"This group is intended to further Rapid Eye Technology as a practice. Discussion subjects to include such things as practice tips, questions, and special announcements."

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3. What should NOT be posted to the RET Discussion group?

• Any sensitive personal information such as credit card numbers, passwords, social security numbers, etc.
• Copyrighted materials (without the owner's permission)
• Confidential client stories and histories (without the client\'s written permission)
• Advocacy of illegal activities
• Flames of other list members
• "I can't subscribe to the [such-and-such] mailing list! Can somebody help me?" messages
• Messages consisting of Jokes that aren't relevant to RET topics.
• Topics meant for specific members of the group - which should instead be addressed to that member only rather than to the entire group
• Subjects that do not pertain to RET
• Forwarded material of any kind (please cut and paste rather than forward to the group)
• Spam (defined here as unsolicited commercial email of any kind) - announcements of your classes and other events are allowable so long as they apply to Certified RET technicians

If you want to discuss any of the above matters, please do it by private e-mail! If you don't know who to contact, e-mail the group administrator (see item 4 below).

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4. Who administers the RET Discussion group?

The administrator is Joseph Bennette. Please send administrative inquiries to the list administrator, rather than to the list itself.

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5. How do I access the message archive?

• Due to the privileged nature of our discussions, you must contact the Group Administrator for access to the archives. Please include your full name in your access request as the RET Discussion Group archives are available to members only.

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6. Other Mailing Lists

• Rapid Eye Institute Email Newsletter List:
  Click here to subscribe to the REI Newsletter
• RET Technician Support Email group:
  Contact Ranae at the Institute to subscribe to this Email group (Make sure you identify yourself)
  
• PowerStates Blogcast Mailing List:
  Click here to subscribe to the PowerStates Blogcast
  

• Receive the after-certification series of 8 weekly emails designed to jump-start your RET practice.
  

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