Email List and Facebook
Besides the AARF web site at www.aarf.ai and our newsletters, AARF has two other ways to send out communications related to AARF animals, adoptions and events.
Either or both may be of interest, depending on the desired level of participation.
aarfupdate Email List
The first is the Aarfupdate email list, aarfupdate.
It is designed as a one–way posting system: from AARF to the people who have subscribed to the list. It is set up essentially as a broadcasting mechanism.
We use the aarfupdate email list (which we'll call “the list” from here on out) to inform list members about AARF happenings. We try to keep the number of emails down to the most time critical announcements. Expect to see less than 10 emails per month. The subject line should always start with
[Aarfupdate]
for those wanting to use email rules or employ a filing system. The emails often contain photos of our animals, but no other extraneous graphics or code. Replies to the list go only to the AARF administrators (called List Moms in list–speak), and so the list stays one way only.
To join the email list, we need your name (for the email database on the server; it is never sent out) and the email address for the emails, send a pre-addressed email to us asking to join.
As an addition to our one way communications mechanism, we have a way for list members to talk freely back and forth; it's on Facebook.
We have created an entity called “Aarf Anguilla” (we had to call it that because there many other AARFs on Facebook). Sign on to Facebook (you need a free account) and search for Aarf Anguilla. Then send it a Friend Request. If you have other people who may want to added as a friend, Facebook has a Friend Suggestion mechanism, and they too should make a request to become a friend of Aarf Anguilla.
This group is the place for news, photos of your animals (hopefully AARF pets :) and jokes Being Facebook, people will post about all sorts of subjects other than AARF!
The Aarf Anguilla Facebook entity is only monitored occasionally by AARF administrators. There may occasional postings, but our intent is to use the aarfupdate list for our important postings. And so, we concentrate on the email list and leave the Facebook site for more casual chatting amongst the Facebook friends.