Geeks and God Podcast

Hi Guys,

I have just been contacted by the church (1000+ people) where I am a member to get up-to-date information about me for inclusion in a church leadership directory.

Included in the directory was a fair amount of personal information which I had some concern about sharing to a wide community.

One such piece of information was my personal email address. Giving this some thought I came to the conclusion that publishing personal email addresses may pose a medium to long term problems...

• Personal email addresses change
• What if person left the church
• What if the person turned out to be unstable

So my suggestion for a Podcast is, to answer the question "What is a mail alias and what can it do for the church?"

My company and I are users of Google Apps that includes a simple mailbox alias feature that many churches could use. An alias, forwarder or mailing list is a common feature with almost all email servers.

This would allow the church to create an alias for each of the leaders that forwards emails to personal addresses and may even be used to route a copy to a single church inbox for security/archiving purposes.

I tried to explain this to one of the Assistant Pastors who had some trouble in understanding the problems (listed above), the benefits and the solution...

The good news for me is that I meet for breakfast with one of the more tech savvy Pastors tomorrow to share this idea and hopefully get some action happening!

Thanks for the Podcast!

Russ