Dear Colleagues,
It has been brought to our attention at RIMHCA that members on our Social Work Group list have been receiving unsolicited e-mails from other social workers on the list. We are working closely with Google to ascertain the reasons this occurred and to prevent a recurrence.
On our end, we keep a list of social workers, obtained from the Department of Health, identified as a group. We also have a group for Licensed Mental Health Counselors. These groups make it possible to only send out information that is relevant to the targeted audience e.g., notices about RIMHCA meetings only go to LMHC group.
At this time, it is our understanding that the e-mails that have gone to social workers may have been the result of someone responding with “reply all” and then recipients doing the same. Our initial suggestion, then, is to delete the e-mails that may arrive from others.
As mentioned above, we are continuing to meet with Google to identify preventative steps.
In the meantime, those of you who have asked to be taken off the social work group list have been.
Until we have completed our discussion with google, we will not be sending out any group emails to the social worker list. If you’ve attended one of our seminars, you will still be on our general list. If you would like to be included on our mailing for future RIMHCA seminars please notify us at Ashley@RIMHCA.org.
Please know that we regret the inconvenience this may have caused and are working to correct it and prevent a recurrence.
Sincerely,
Vera DeMarco,
President, RIMHCA
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