AHBC Member Email

Your email address is maintained in two different locations by AHBC. These addresses are independent from one another and may be the same or different. One is used to log into the website and the other is to receive mail via the Google Group.

Email Etiquette for the AHBC Google Group

1. Cycling related content is acceptable, all other topics are highly discouraged. You may not use the email group for personal business.

2. Club related content is encouraged and is the primary purpose of the group.

3. Politics, Religion, Defamation of others are explicitly disallowed.

4. Please, NO requests for financial sponsorship of charity rides, you may announce you are participating in such a ride only once a year

5. Do not re-send messages if you have not yet seen the message. Sometimes email is delayed for several hours.

6. From time to time we get complaints about email content, frequency, or relevance and will advise the sender privately.

7. Reminder emails are acceptable as an event gets closer, but please do not spam and send the same email many times.

8. We all make typos and sometimes dates and times change, if possible change the title when resending an email to indicate the change.

9. Avoid reply to all. Please only reply to the sender unless there is a good reason to do so.

10. Use normal email etiquette, If you have a secret, share it with your dog or cat, not via email

11. If you do not see email arriving for a several days, email the webmaster at web@cyclearlington.com or membership chair at membership@cyclearlington.com directly. Sometimes Google will discover that an email address bounces and will stop sending you email.

12. We do have the ability to directly add people to the group but you don't need our help. If your email address changes, see instructions below.

13. If you are posting an email to more than one group, Google may choose to deliver the message to anyone on both lists once.

All Group email is public

Remember that all email sent to the Google Group AHBCCyclist is publically available. We actively remove spammers from the group but in general anyone can join to group.

AHBC household members

Household memberships of AHBC allow two adults at the same address. Each member can sign up individually for the ahbccyclist google group to receive and send email. They also may have separate email addresses and passwords to log onto the website.

Managing your email address with AHBC for members

Your membership email address is the one you provided on your membership application or shared with the membership chair

When you log on the AHBC cyclearlington.com website, you can access portions of the website which are only available to AHBC members. This includes your membership information

Use the Login button to log into your account via the Sign In Button. You need your email address and password. If you don't know your password, the membership chair can reset it for you, Send an email to membership@cyclearlington.com and ask for your password, be patient we are volunteers, this might take a few days. After the Membership Chair gives you a password, we recommend changing it so only you know the password
Click on your name and then click on Your Account
Near the bottom of the page you can change your password
This email/password combination is for the cyclearlington.com website only and not for other websites or the google group

Managing your email address with the ahbccyclist google group for members and for non-members

Your Google group email address is the one receive or send group email via ahbccyclist@googlegroups.com

The Google Group is self-managed.

You can be a member of the Google Group without being a member of AHBC

You do not need to have a Gmail address to be a member of the AHBC Google Group.

To add your new email address to the group:

We recommend adding ahbccyclist-googlegroups.com to your contacts list.

Send an empty email from your new email address to ahbccyclist+subscribe@googlegroups.com
You will receive a confirmation message that you must accept
One of the AHBC Google Group moderators will approve your new email address after you reply to the confirmation message. Be patient we are volunteers, this might take a few days

To remove your old email address from the group:

Send an empty email from your old email address to ahbccyclist+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com
You will receive a confirmation message that you should accept

Missing Email Messages from the ahbccyclist Google Group

From time to time members report that they are not receiving email messages from the ahbccyclist google group. What should you do if you haven't received any email from the group?

Look in your spam folder

Now that you've checked your spam folder and are sure it isn't there, search your email for the phrase: ahbccyclist

We know that some members have had issues with receiving email from the group and have never been able to diagnose the core issue. Talk to the most IT literate person you know and see if they can help you diagnose the issue.