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The Singapore Centre for the Promotion of Nonviolent Communication

Sharing the gifts of Compassion, Connection and Choice

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Requests to registrants that support our need for ease

Text Box: Until such time as we are able to employ a designated administrator who can answer a telephone hotline or accept registrations via fax, the following links will take you to our on-line registration pages for: Our monthly newsletter Our weekly evening sessions PARENTING WITH COMPASSION - 8th/9th April SPEAKING PEACE - 13th/14th May To receive a weekly e-learning suggestion Do please be aware, however, that we have noticed as many as 30% of our administrative emails getting blocked by spam filters registrants may not realise have been set by ISPs or email clients to prevent unwanted mail reaching your computer . Your compliance with the following requests will help ensure the mail you want can reach you. After registering for any of our workshops, please immediately check your in-box to find a message sent by our auto-responder that will confirm our receipt of your application. If you do not receive a confirmation of receipt from us within a 24-hour period, please check your spam or bulk mail folder. Depending on your filter settings, you may find our mail has lodged itself in there. If our mail has arrived in your bulk mail folder, in addition to responding to the instructions you will find in that message, please make an effort to re-set your anti-spam filters in order to allow mail from @scpnvc.org.sg addresses. We aim to mail a reminder about your registration together with suggestions for preparation to you once a week. Once again, if you do not notice these arriving, please re-set your anti-spam filters as these determine whether our mail gets to you or not. If you do not find our mail arriving even in your bulk mail folder, the chances are your ISP has employed software that monitors the number of emails sent by individual Servers and automatically black-lists any that appear to be sending spam. Unfortunately, this means you will no-longer be able to receive mail from any individual or organisation connected with that Server, not even from family and friends, let alone from organisations such as ours. Towards the end of 2005 we have become aware of aol.com as a leading user of this blocking technology, and we have reason to believe singnet.com is using the same. Once a Server has been black-listed, it can take weeks for the legitimate organisations sharing that Server to recognise the problem and even longer to convince the ISP to repair the situation. We have yet to figure out any long term solution to this problem, which we anticipate is likely to be exacerbated as more and more ISPs hook into the idea that not receiving the mail you want is but a small price to pay for not receiving the mail you don’t want. If you wish to make a difference then, do please consider writing either to your ISP or to the press about this alarming development, which we honestly find stops more wanted mail than unwanted mail (on account of the fact spammers are generally very happy to spend their time figured out how to get around the filters whereas legitimate organisations would usually prefer to focus their attention on core activities.) Please send an e-mail to Admin@SCPNVC.org.sg explaining the nature of your registration problem and we will endeavour to find an alternative route via which our mail can be delivered to you. (For example, we can sometimes ‘bounce’ mail through a friend or relative’s address, who, provided their ISP is not using this alarming new technology, can then forward it to you.) We appreciate your taking responsibility for your registration in this way, as it supports needs of ours for ease and efficiency in administrating our workshops, allowing us to focus our attention on meeting your learning needs through our trainings.

Your compliance with these requests to registrants greatly supports our needs for ease and efficiency.