The Early Childhood and Parenting (ECAP) Collaborative is home to more than a dozen projects that focus on educating and raising young children. ECAP hosts research, technical assistance, and service projects.

SAC-L Discussion List

SAC-L is a discussion list for anybody interested in school-age care planning, resources, activities, funding, staff and staff development, and related subjects. SAC-L is the place where administrators, caregivers/teachers, policymakers, parents, and other interested in school-age care can come together over the Internet to share ideas, resources, problems, and solutions.

SAC-L is co-owned by the National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST) (formerly the School-Age Child Care Project) at the Center for Research on Women at Wellesley College and by the Early Childhood and Parenting (ECAP) Collaborative at the University of Illinois.

For more information on NIOST, visit the Institute's Web site at: http://www.niost.org/SAC-L administrative address:
listserv@listserv.illinois.edu SAC-L discussion address:
sac-l@listserv.illinois.edu

Subscribing to SAC-L

To subscribe to SAC-L, send a one-line e-mail that reads: subscribe SAC-L {Your First Name} {Your Last Name}

Where {Your First Name} and {Your Last Name} refer to your real name (not your login name). Note that there is no reason to include a subject or your e-mail address. As an example, if Jane Doe wanted to subscribe to SAC-L, she would send the following message:

subscribe SAC-L Jane Doe

Send the message to:

listserv@listserv.illinois.edu

Do NOT send the message to SAC-L

NOTE: Your message to LISTSERV should not include a "signature" if at all possible. The computer will try to interpret the lines of your signature as commands.

You should receive a note confirming your subscription within a few minutes (although sometimes it can take and hour or two).

Feel free to contact the list administrator if you need more information or have problems getting signed off at:

listadmn@ecap-mailserver.crc.uiuc.edu

Unsubscribing from SAC-L

To unsubscribe from SAC-L, all you need to do is send a one-line e-mail message that reads:

signoff SAC-L

Note that there is no reason to include a subject, your name, or your e-mail address.

Send the message to:

listserv@listserv.illinois.edu Do NOT send your message to SAC-L

NOTE: Your message to LISTSERV should not include a "signature" if at all possible. The computer will try to interpret the lines of your signature as commands.

You should receive a note confirming your signoff within a few minutes (although sometimes it can take and hour or two).

Feel free to contact the list administrator if you need more information or have problems getting signed off at:

listadmn@ecap-mailserver.crc.uiuc.edu

Sending Mail to SAC-L

To send a message to all the members of the SAC-L list, compose your email message as usual and send it to the list discussion address:

sac-l@listserv.illinois.edu

Setting Mail Options for SAC-L

There are three different mail options for the SAC-L listserv:

  • Mail. Messages arrive in your mail box one at a time as they are posted to the news group. This is the setting you are AUTOMATICALLY given when you subscribe. It is very easy to respond directly to messages received, but some people find that so many separate messages can clutter up their mail box.
  • Nomail. You remain subscribed to SAC-L, but new messages will not be sent to you. This is a good way to keep your mail box from filling up if you will be on vacation or away from your e-mail account for an extended period.
  • Digest. You will receive only ONE message per day from SAC-L which includes ALL of the day's postings collected together. Digests are nice if you don't like wading through lots of separate messages, but it's harder to reply to any one specific posting.

To change your mail settings for SAC-L, send an e-mail message to:

listserv@listserv.illinois.edu Do NOT send any mail setting changes to SAC-L

To temporarily STOP mail from being delivered, send the following command:

set SAC-L nomail

To start receiving mail in DIGEST form, send the following command:

set SAC-L digest

To UNDO either of the previous commands, send the following message:

set SAC-L mail

Setting Message Acknowledgements and Reproductions

The Acknowledgement setting tells the Listserv computer whether or not to send you an acknowledgement whenever you send a message to the list. The setting options are ACK and NOACK. For instance, if you send a message with subject line "General Information", you can automatically get a message back from the Listserv computer that is something like:

Your message dated XXX with subject "General Information" was successfully distributed to the XXX list.

The Reproduction setting tells the Listserv computer whether or not you want to see your own message posted to the list. The setting options are REPRO and NOREPRO.

To change your acknowledgement and reproduction settings for SAC-L, send an e-mail message to:

listserv@listserv.illinois.edu

Do NOT send acknowledgement or reproduction setting changes to SAC-L

To receive an automatic acknowledgement from the Listserv computer whenever you post a message to the list, send the command:

set SAC-L ack

If you do not want to receive an acknowledgement, send the message:

set SAC-L noack

If you want to see your own message posted to the list, send the message:

set SAC-L repro

If you do not want to see your own message posted to the list, send the message:

set SAC-L norepro

It is a good idea to set one of these options "on" (i.e., ACK or REPRO) so that you can know that your own posting has been received by the list. There are default settings for these options for each Listserv list. Each list may have different default settings.

SAC-L list

Messages posted to the SAC-L list will be archived for approximately one year. The SAC-L archive is available at:

https://listserv.illinois.edu/archives/sac-l.html

Questions

If you have any technical questions about the list (problems subscribing, unsubscribing, setting list digests, etc.), please contact the list administrator at:

listadmn@ecap-mailserver.crc.uiuc.edu

If you have any other questions, contact the list owner:

Bernard Cesarone
ECAP, University of Illinois
Children's Research Center
51 Gerty Drive
Champaign, IL 61820
Phone: (217) 333-1386
Fax: (217) 244-7732
E-mail: cesarone@uiuc.edu

Melissa Magner
National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST)
Center for Research on Women
Wellesley College
(781) 283-2547
E-mail: mmagner@wellesley.edu