Before posting your first substantive message to the group, you must send a message introducing yourself to the group. Give us your name, your firm name, size of your firm (solo, small, medium or large) and your areas of specialty, if any.

Once you subscribe for free, you'll begin receiving email messages from other subscribers, When a subscriber to LMPI-CBA sends an e-mail message to the list (lmpi-cba@lmpi-chicagobar.org), the computer at the CBA receives it and immediately and automatically resends the message to every subscriber on the list.

Individual participants suggest topics for discussion, known as "starting a thread," by sending an e-mail message to the list. Group members then join in the conversation by offering their comments. You can opt to have everything "posted" to the list go into your e-mail box to be read at your leisure (the regular list) or you can receive a "digest version," which compiles multiple messages into one.

SUBJECT LINE REQUIREMENTS:

To help others in the list in their management of the posts and deciding whether to read it we have set up a required prefix system. The following must be placed in [square brackets] before the subject of your post.

[MGMT] = Discussions on practice management topics - how to do things in the office

[DEVEL] = Discussions on practice development such as marketing, networking, etc.

[RM] = Risk Management and Ethics Discussions

[TECH] = Questions on using technology

[COMP] = Questions on what software or hardware to use

Archives:

Sometimes when a thread is occurring you have no need for the information and then invariably months later you have the same question. We will archive discussions on popular topics and the archive will be fully searchable.

On any given day there can be 80 or more messages posted by the group. Some messages will be worthwhile, others will be priceless nuggets, still others will be useless, so e-mail management is a must. Create a LMPI folder on your e-mail program and set your e-mail filter to send all messages from LMPI to this folder. This will allow you to review and delete or respond to messages when you’re ready, without cluttering your main mail folder.

Use your delete key liberally. If the subject line has no interest to you, get rid of the message. (Just like ignoring a headline or article in a newspaper.)

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