ScotStat Guidance 
This guidance relates to making use of the ScotStat Register which allows correspondence between ScotStat members.
How to contact members who have agreed to share their details
Through the ScotStat website, any member can query the database to find contact details for those members who have agreed to share their details. Log on to the site and perform a search using your chosen parameters. Once the search is done, other members can be contacted by three means. These are outlined below.
Firstly, the results-page presents a 3-column table displaying the names, organisations and e-mail addresses of members who agreed to share their information. Individual members can be selected and contacted using the information contained in the table.1.
Secondly, at the bottom of the results-page, you can download the results - of those who agreed to share their information - as a comma-separated (csv) file, which can be imported into a spreadsheet application i.e. Excel. This would enable you to start your own distribution list or add the members to an existing one.
Thirdly, at the bottom of the table, there is an e-mail list - of those who agreed to share their information - which must be copied and pasted in the 'BCC' field of an email, entering 'ScotStat' in the 'TO' field. This is the most common way of using the register; all members you have selected through your search can then be contacted by following the steps below:
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Copy the e-mail addresses using the button provided.
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Open a new e-mail andpaste the e-mail addresses into the BCC field. It is important that you do not paste addresses into the 'TO' field in order to keep e-mail addresses anonymous. Whilst some users are happy for us to share their details, others are not and we have promised not to disclose their details to a third party. Failure to do this could result in legal action.
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Copy the standard e-mail wording using the button provided and paste this into your e-mail. Edit as required and send.