Communications

Email group

There is a Yahoo email group which any resident is welcome to join (instructions below). (This is distinct from the large list of members' email addresses that Secretary Joyce has for occasional mailings; if you would prefer to be on that list rather than the Yahoo one, email her: jrosser, then 'at', then lineone.net.) Once you have joined the Yahoo group, you can:

• send messages to all the other members of the group via a single email address; for instance, you could ask if anyone can recommend an electrician, report a cat that's been found, or enquire about unpruned trees;
• receive these messages and their answers;
• reply to them if you have an answer (see below for how to do this); and
• search the archived messages on the group's website to find messages about things such as electricians, lost cats or tree-pruning.

The group is a good way to get to know the neighbours and to share local information.

To join the WERA Yahoo email group:

• Go to http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/wera-n8. You should see the WERA-N8 home page, including a summary of past messages. Feel free to browse through them. Decide whether you want to join so that you can send messages and receive them as they're sent. If you decide not to join, you can always visit this website to check messages that others have sent.
• Click 'Sign up' (near the top, after 'New user?').
• If you're already registered with Yahoo, add this group to your existing list of groups by clicking 'sign in' (top right) and following the instructions.
• If you're not already registered with Yahoo, supply the details requested. You will receive a couple of email messages to confirm your membership.
• At any time you can change your options as a member (e.g. to stop receiving messages) by going to the group's home page and clicking 'edit membership' (top middle).
• If you have any problems, please tell the list owner, Dick Hudson, 'dick', then '@', then 'ling.ucl..ac.uk'

To read the archived messages:

• Go to http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/wera-n8 and browse. You'll find that the messages are grouped by topic, as defined by the message 'about' header. That's why it's important to change the header if you want to introduce a new topic.
• If you haven't yet joined the group and feel inspired to do so, just click the button 'join this group' and follow the instructions.

To reply to messages from the WERA group:

• If you want to reply to a message, you can send it either to the entire group, or just to the person who sent the message.This allows you t o avoid sending personal messages to the entire group. Here's how you choose:
• To send your reply to the entire group: just hit the 'reply' button.
• To send your reply just to the sender: what you do depends on whether you received the message through your usual email system or by reading messages in the archive:
  • if you're using your usual email system:
    • in the original message, right-click the sender's address in the From: line, then select 'copy email address';
    • then hit 'reply', select the group address in the 'To:' line, delete it and paste the sender's address into the line instead.
  • if you're reading messages in the archive, hit the 'reply' button and select the sender's address in the 'To:' menu.

Disclaimer: WERA takes no responsibility for any information or recommendations made by contributors to this email group.

Newsletters

At least once each year our road representatives distribute a newsletter to every household on the Warner estate. Copies of old newsletters can be found here.

Meetings

We hold an Annual General Meeting in the summer, and include a talk on some topic of local interest by an invited speaker.

Road representatives

Each road has a WERA representative who will be pleased to hear from you about any concerns, and will call to collect members' annual subscription. Click here for a list of road representatives.

Webmaster Dick Hudson