The AFG group hosts two email lists, the official moderated AFG list (afg@sylvan.com) and the unofficial unmoderated social gab list AFGGAB (afggab@sylvan.com).
AFG and AFGGAB are open to the Holy Family Parish Alleluia Folk Group
music ministry and interested Holy Family parishioners and ministers.
This is to keep the AFG list (afg@sylvan.com) as focused as possible on
critical time-sensitive messages that affect the coordination of the
Alleluia Folk Group ministry at Holy Family Parish.
What this means on a practical level is that all postings to this address
are reviewed by me and sent through if they meet the following single
criteria:
The AFGGAB mailing list, on the other hand, is for chat, jokes, political
discussions, birth announcements, invitations to Open Houses, personal
notes, prayer requests, eggnog recipes, etc. Anything goes (but keep it
"PG-13" as a general rule of thumb).
If you need notices of official AFG information and nothing else, subscribe
to AFG. All members of AFG should be on this list.
If you also enjoy the gab, you should belong to BOTH lists: AFG and
AFGGAB. That way you get the official announcements and critical news and
you can participate with the gab as well.
Sometimes nothing for a week or two at a time! Even high volume weeks on
AFG should only be maybe 5 emails or so (a newsletter, a menu update, a
sudden change in Sunday Mass set-up, etc).
AFGGAB is at times a high volume list with anywhere from 12 - 48 emails
per week depending on the topics and humors of the list. Sometimes
discussions will get involved (such as when discussing Catholic
doctrine) and this is just the nature of the list where volume can not be
predicted week to week.
The weekly newsletter should contain all of this information and is sent
in a single email to the moderated AFG (afg@sylvan.com) each week. You
will still get the news, but a few days later in a consolidated form that
fits the moderated nature of AFG.
If the email sent to AFG does NOT meet this criteria, it will NOT be sent
to AFG and instead routed to AFGGAB.