I have created a special usergroup that allows humans to be informed whenever I make a post in here regarding changes.
<a>Click here to open a seperate window to join</a>
What can you expect in your email from the board?
-schedule updates, including work, vacation changes, special plans with humans, etc
-Madd's World updates (http://www.madd74.com)
-major life event changes (moving, number change, marriage)
-support issues (JOHD goes down, board problems, known errors within the site*)
In general, if it is something massively important that is has potential to impact humans I know, then it gets posted in here.
* - should the actual site go down, I hope to have a copy of everyone's email so that I can find another way to get information of the problem in hand