Berkeley Parents Network: Questions about Your BPN Subscription

Berkeley Parents Network

Questions about Your BPN Subscription

Berkeley Parents Network > Help & Frequently Asked Questions > Questions about Your BPN Subscription

How do I unsubscribe or change my email address?

To unsubscribe or change your email address, fill out the form for unsubscribing or address changes at .http://parents.berkeley.edu/unsubscribe.html.

Can I receive some but not all of the newsletters?

No. There is only one member list for all the BPN newsletters, so it is not possible to customize subscriptions. Everyone who is on the list for the Berkeley Parents Network receives all the digests. But we try to make it easy for you to skip the ones you aren't interested in by providing a separate Subject field for each digest. So, for example, if you aren't looking for childcare right now, you can just delete the Childcare digest when it comes in to your mailbox without having to view the body.

Why do we do it like this?
1) It is simpler to administer the newsletters if we don't have to maintain a database of who is subscribed to which newsletter(s).
2) We don't want people subscribing for the sole purpose of receiving Marketplace or the House & Garden digest because this would attract subscribers who are not contributing to the parenting community, creating a greater burden on the volunteers without creating added value for parenting support.
3) We want everyone to be able to contribute to all the discussions, even the ones they don't read very often. For the same reason, we don't split the Advice newsletter into questions grouped by ages of children. That way, a parent of an older child can provide expert advice to the parent of a newborn.

Note: the Parents of Teens newsletter has a separate subscriber list from The Berkeley Parents Network. So, people who have teenagers might want to subscribe to both Parents of Teens & The Berkeley Parents Network.

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