Introduction:

The California Aviation Alliance (CAA) is a non-profit California association of aviation organizations dedicated to promoting airport friendly state legislation and policy. The California Aviation Alliance Mail Lists are just one of several services provided free to our industry. You can visit the CAA website at http://californiaaviation.org or by clicking on the logo above.

A mailing list is a sort of electronic bulletin board which emails to all subscribers messages posted by any subscriber. There are already a number of mailing lists that deal with aviation.

The California Aviation Alliance lists are distinctive in that they have a narrower focus than many. This means that you will not have to go through large numbers of messages each day to find the few that are of real interest to you.

It costs nothing to subscribe to any one of our lists, and you may subscribe to as many of them as you wish. You may join our mailing lists even if you don't belong to a California Aviation Alliance member organization (although we hope you will join one). Please note that you can only post to one of our mailing lists after you have first subscribed to it; you can also only receive other people's posts to a list after you have subscribed to it.

We welcome your suggestions for subjects on which additional lists can be based. In particular, we want to encourage regional and local mailing lists and we'll happily establish them. Our objective is to build a richly varied menu of lists so that all who use the California Aviation Alliance Mailing lists will be better informed than ever before about developments and opportunities in our rapidly changing industry.

We ask that anyone posting to our lists respect generally-accepted standards of courtesy, and we will remove a subscriber who violates them. 

The California Aviation Alliance mailing lists are: 

(Click on one of the links below to launch your email program or see next section for information on how to subscribe to these lists):

• California Aviation Alliance: Airport News - aviation news and views from around our region and our world. Currently, posts to this list are permitted only from the list administrator (Stephen Irwin).
• California Aviation Alliance: Legislative Updates - the rapidly changing legal and regulatory environment is the focus of this list. Jump in and let your voice be heard.
• California Aviation Alliance: Positions Open - need a job?, have a job to fill? I look forward to meeting you at your earliest opportunity, but please, keep it brief and to the point.
• California Aviation Alliance: General Aviation News - solely for topics related to General Aviation Airports
• California Aviation Alliance: Airport Alert - for dissemination of time critical information to airports. Abuse of this list will result in the offender being removed.
• California Aviation Alliance: Corporate List - news, views, queries and helpful hints from our corporate members.
• California Aviation Alliance: Mutual Help List - you have questions, these list members have answers. Put the cumulative talent of over three hundred airport experts on your staff. Why reinvent the wheel?
• California Aviation Alliance: Aviation Business List - making a living in this industry isn't easy. Legal and regulatory issues can affect your bottom line. Sharing information can make all the difference. If you own or work in an aviation business, this list may help.
• California Aviation Alliance: Pilot Talk - pilot's love to talk, about flying mostly. The best cup of coffee this side of the Sierra's or that hairy approach into Podunk Airport. If you love flying, this is your list.
• California Aviation Alliance: Meet a Mentor - we've been there, we know what it's like to break into and succeed in this business. If you're looking for career guidance or the opportunity to share your wisdom with a young person, this is the list for you.
• California Aviation Alliance: Ideas and Innovations List - have an idea for a better aeronautical mousetrap but want to bounce it off your airport colleagues? This is where you can brainstorm together.
• California Aviation Alliance: Request for Proposals - get your RFP out on the "street" by posting it here. A lot of airport consultants are waiting to hear from you. This list is also useful for learning about the RFP process itself. Go ahead, ask away.

To subscribe
to the California Aviation Alliance Mailing Lists send an email message from the email account you wish to receive your posts on to imailsrv@californiaaviation.org 

There is no need to write anything in the "Subject" line of your email. 

In the body of the email message write the word "Subscribe" (without quotation marks) followed by the code of the list to which you want to subscribe and name position and organization. You may enter more than one request in a single message, but each should be on a new line and should include the word "Subscribe" "Code". The "name position and organization" need only be included on the first line of a multiple list subscription. PLEASE BE CAREFUL not to include a "signature" at the bottom of your message. (You can also subscribe by following the shortcut described below)

The codes for California Aviation Alliance Mailing Lists are as follows: 

CAA: Airport News - airport
CAA: Legislative Updates - legislative
CAA: Positions Open - jobs
CAA: General Aviation News - ganews
CAA: Aviation Business List - avbiz
CAA: Pilot Talk List - pilot
CAA: Airport Alert - alert
CAA: Corporate List - corporate
CAA: Mutual Help List - help
CAA: Meet a Mentor - mentor
CAA: Ideas and Innovations List - idea
CAA: Request for Proposals - rfp

Shortcut: 
To subscribe to all or many of the California Aviation Alliance Mailing Lists copy the following lines: 

Subscribe airport Name/Position/Organization
Subscribe legislative Name/Position/Organization
Subscribe jobs Name/Position/Organization
Subscribe ganews Name/Position/Organization
Subscribe avbiz Name/Position/Organization
Subscribe pilot Name/Position/Organization
Subscribe alert Name/Position/Organization
Subscribe corporate Name/Position/Organization
Subscribe help Name/Position/Organization
Subscribe mentor Name/Position/Organization
Subscribe idea Name/Position/Organization
Subscribe rfp Name/Position/Organization

Then click on this link imailsrv@californiaaviation.org and paste the lines you have just copied into the body of your email message (you can then delete any you do not wish to join).

There is no need to write anything in the "Subject" line of your email. 

To "post" a message - that is, to send it to everyone on a mailing list - simply enter the following formula in the "To" line of your email page:
[code]@californiaaviation.org

A posting to the CAA: Request for Proposals list, for example, would be addressed to rfp@californiaaviation.org

As a courtesy to your fellow subscribers, please be sure that your message is appropriate to the mailing list to which you are sending it. Messages distributed to the list will contain the name of the list, followed by your subject line entry in your post to the list. For example if you send a post to the CAA: Mutual Help List (addressed to help@californiaaviation.org) with 'Problems with Runway Markings' in the subject line, the post that will be distributed to the list will be altered by the Listserver to contain, 'CAA: Mutual Help List, Problems with Runway Markings' in the subject line.Please note that you can only post on one of our mailing lists after you have first subscribed to it; you can also only receive other people's posts to a list after you have subscribed to it. 

address your email from the account you've been receiving your posts on to: imailsrv@californiaaviation.org:
in the body of the message write Unsubscribe [code]

Thus, to unsubscribe from CAA: Airport News write: Unsubscribe airport

Click Here to Leave the California Aviation Alliance Airport News List

or visit the Mail List Administration Page to unsubscribe using an easy to use form.