EXCESS,
SURPLUS LINES AND REINSURANCE
(ESLR)
Nothing But Net
By: Larry
P. Schiffer
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Welcome to the first 1997-98 ESLR Committee Newsletter technology column. As you may know,
the column used to be called "ESLR On-Line." Our new Editor, Mike Knoerzer,
wanted to jazz things up and suggested the new title, "Nothing But Net." I
wanted "Air Ball" after Mike's jump shot, but "Nothing But Net" won
out.
Our topic this quarter is the new ESLR Committee List Serve -- eslrcom@abanet.org. What's a
List Serve you ask? Well, as we discussed in previous columns, a List Serve is an automated
e-mail distribution system that allows any subscriber to the list to post a message that
will be delivered to all subscribers. Human intervention is unnecessary once the List Serve
is set up, as the computer -- the ABA List Server -- automatically reviews each message
sent to it and distributes the message to all subscribers to the List Serve.
The ESLR Committee List Serve is called "eslrcom" and its e-mail address for
posting messages is eslrcom@abanet.org. Some of you already have received messages posted
to the eslrcom List Serve. If you have sent your e-mail address to me or to the ABA, I have
subscribed you to the eslrcom List Serve (if you changed your e-mail address, have a better
one, or did not get any welcome message, e-mail me -- the ABA's list of e-mail addresses
leaves something to be desired in the accuracy department). If you have an e-mail address,
you can send it to me and I will subscribe you, or you can send a message yourself and ask
to be subscribed (also, if you want out, you can unsubscribe, but we hope you stay a
subscriber so you don't miss out on the information that will flow over the eslrcom
List Serve).
Why should you subscribe? TIPS recently adopted a policy encouraging the use of electronic
communication to find ways to distribute information to TIPS members like you quickly and
inexpensively by using technology. ESLR is on the vanguard of the TIPS technology
initiatives. ESLR was one of the first general committees to set up a home page --
http://www.abanet.org/tips/eslr -- and is one of only a few general committees using
List Serve technology.
What kind of information and services? Well, all subscribers to the eslrcom List Serve
already have received a message from Chair-Elect Tom Downey about various committee
projects and relevant deadlines. The eslrcom List Serve can be used to solicit members to
work on committee projects, advise members of committee programs and initiatives, share
information on new cases, statutes, and regulations affecting excess, surplus lines, and
reinsurance practices, seek references for local counsel, or myriad other uses. Just
think, a new case comes down or a new regulation is issued affecting your client. You can
post the information by sending a message to the eslrcom List Serve and share that news with
your committee and your clients who also are members of ESLR. Subscribers can discuss the
case or regulation and its ramifications as issues develop rather than waiting for a
quarterly newsletter (no offense Mike) or a program.
How do I subscribe? Send me your e-mail address -- lschiffe@llgm.com. Or better yet,
subscribe yourself (while Mike may be a Luddite, the rest of you are not so technology
challenged). If you go to the ABA Home Page -- http://www.abanet.org
-- you will find a subpage that lists all the List Serves run by the ABA. Look for the link
to Discussions on the ABA Home Page -- http://www.abanet.org/
discussions/home.html. Scroll down to the eslrcom List Serve and press the button that
allows you to subscribe. You will find eslrcom@abanet.org under the listing of private
discussions at http://www. abanet.org/discussions/private.html. The ABA's List Server will
send me a message (I manage the eslrcom List Serve) asking me to approve your subscription,
which I will do right away. Once your subscription is approved, you will receive the ABA
List Server welcome message (from its Majordomo -- some sort of high ranking cyborg). The
welcome message tells you how to subscribe, unsubscribe, and gives you some other List Serve
commands that allows you to find out information about your subscriptions (for those who
are really technofiles).
You also can send a message directly to the ABA List Server and ask to subscribe to
eslrcom@abanet.org. The e-mail address for the ABA List Serve is: listserv@mail.abanet.org. In
the body of the message type: subscribe eslrcom [your e-mail address here]. List Serves do
not read the subject line, only the body of the message, so make sure that any
communication to the ABA list server has the text of what you want the List Server to do in
the body of the message or it will not understand you.
Well, I am sure that Mike has had enough of this and never wants to hear the word List Serve
again. He's subscribed (and I won't let him unsubscribe) so he will be able to receive and
send committee-wide messages to all ESLR members subscribed to eslrcom. Why don't you join
him and the more than fifty of us who already participate on eslrcom@abanet.org. Show me
the e-mail (address), and you too can proudly say that you subscribe to the hottest
insurance List Serve in the world -- eslrcom@abanet.org
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