GENERAL INFORMATION

Are you sure you’re getting up-to-the-minute email notices from the lodge? Because most IHL emails have multiple addressees, some SPAM blockers might stop them from reaching you. If you are not sure you have received all wanted emails from the lodge lately, you’ll have to hunt for them among those the SPAM filter has set aside as “Junk Mail,” then re-categorize emails from those senders to be allowed into your in-box in the future. If you are unsure how to do this, contact Joe La Marca at jlamarca at erols.com or 703-455-0376.

Don’t miss any great Italian Heritage Lodge events, due to conflicting events on your busy schedule.  Check the “Annual Calendar“ page on this site frequently for changes in future events for which you will want to be sure to mark your calendars and to see what you’ve missed!

Webmaster’s note:  If you have an item to lend, sell, or give away, that would be of interest to lodge members, contact me at 703-569-5243 Earl.Jones at ItalianHeritageLodge.org, and I’ll post the announcement on this web site.

Do you miss the daily news from Italy that MHZ-TV (Channel 56/Cox Channel 6) used to provide at 10 PM?  The news from Italy, plus many RAI television programs, including the acclaimed series, “Inspector Montalbano,” are still available to us, wherever we are in the world.  All we need to do is to point our high speed internet service to this address: http://www.raiclicktv.it/raiclickpc/secure/homePage.srv.   Then to see the latest news from Italy, click on one of the following links at the right upper side of the screen: "TG1," "TG2," "TG3," or "UltimoTG."  The other programming links appear elsewhere on the page.

Two email etiquette tips:  1) When replying to an email with multiple addressees, let’s be sure we want our response to go to everyone on that list before using the “Reply All” option. If we want the reply to go only to the sender, let’s choose “Reply,” instead.  2) Also, if we want to send a message to a large number of recipients, especially everyone in the lodge for whom we have an email address, let’s not display all those addresses, as a matter of privacy.  So, instead of putting the addresses in the “To:” block, we should put our own address there and put all the other addresses in the “Bcc:” (Blind Carbon Copy) block.  Everyone on the list will still get a copy, but each recipient will see only his or her own address.  (If you use Outlook Express for email and don’t see “Bcc…”, click on the arrow next to the “options” button and click on “Bcc.”)

Are you receiving official emails from lodge officers?  If not, please provide your email address to Dot at dmjcs at Cox.Net. You will then receive breaking IHL news without having to wait for the monthly newsletter or having to check this web site to learn about event changes, etc.  (However, you should check this page and the “Upcoming Events” page occasionally, since we will begin to use email only for urgent messages.)  Lodge officers will not release your email address to anyone outside the lodge, and will do our best to remember to avoid displaying it in messages sent to all members.