Section Email Discussion Lists Guide and FAQs

A few thoughts from Team MSBA

Welcome to the Section Email Discussion Lists. We have transitioned Member Sections from MSBA Engage to this new platform because it offers you a simpler, more user-friendly experience. You can reach your fellow Section Members by simply sending an email to your community’s email address—no logging in required.

To learn more about the Section Email Discussion Lists, please review the FAQs below. You can also review the Email Discussion List Terms of Service by clicking here.

Need Immediate Help? Please do not email the Section Email Discussion Lists for assistance with email frequency or other issues. If you need help with any aspect of the Section list, please email [email protected].

Section Email Discussion List Overview

MSBA has launched a new Section Email Discussion Lists for peer to peer messaging among Section Members. The new lists replaced MSBA Engage.

We received significant member feedback on our former platform, MSBA Engage. Members asked for a more traditional email list instead of the web platform. This change directly responds to member requests for a simpler, user-friendly tool that can be accessed directly via email.

Unlike Engage, the Section Email Discussion Lists are entirely email-based, and do not require website access to use certain features like accessing attachments.

All MSBA Section have the lists as of January 1, 2026.

You can access the discussion lists for the sections of which you are a member. If you would like to become a section member in order to access a list please contact [email protected]. Reminder: Two sections are included in your membership.

Sending and Replying to Emails

To email the list, please use the email address listed in your MSBA Member Profile (signin required). You can find the specific address for your section under 'Individual list membership' here (signin required).

While we don’t typically require approval for list emails, 'unsubscribe' requests sent to the entire list can be disruptive. To keep list discussions focused on the practice of law, we place the list on a temporary pre-approval protocol to prevent further off-topic messages. You can unsubscribe by clicking Unsubscribe here. (signin required).

Your email reply function will send your email back to the entire Email Discussion List. If you want to send an email only to the individual sender, you can start a new email thread or replace the Email Discussion List email with the senders email from their signature block or “from/sender information” block.

For most users, you will receive a copy of your own email, but give it a few minutes. Gmail users won't see the copy in their inbox because of how Google handles it. If you need to confirm it went through, check the list archives — if it's there, your email was successfully delivered.

There are a couple of reasons why your email may not be working.

  1. First, check your email address that the email originated from and ensure it is the same email address associated with your MSBA Membership Account
  2. Check your membership status. If you are 30-days past renewal, your membership is inactive and you cannot access the Email Discussion List.
  3. Check to ensure you are a member of the Section you are trying to send to.
  4. If after your verify these items, you are still having trouble, email [email protected] for assistance.

Yes, if you are a member of the lists you to which you want to crosspost. We ask that you crosspost judiciously to reduce email volume to recipients.

Yes. Email attachments up to 30MB are supported by the new platform.

Emails from each section have an identifier on the email subject line. You can also look at the email address from which the email was sent. That address will also identify the section.

Unfortunately, the lists aren't technically set up to allow for anonymous individual senders. We’ve always required sender transparency on the lists to protect the integrity of the group and avoid any accidental disclosures to opposing parties.

Clicking Unsubscribe here (signin required).

Archives

Yes. List discussions are archived and searchable so you can easily review past discussions.

Visit https://msba.org/site/content/Section-Email-Contact.aspx and follow the instructions to login and view the archives for all lists of which you are a member.

Email Frequency

  1. Yes. That is called Enabling your daily summary or Disabling your daily summary. Click https://msba.simplelists.com/subs and choose either Enable daily summary or Disable daily summary for each section.
  2. Having Trouble? Review the step by step guide.

You'll get a separate digest from each section. You will not get a digest, however, if there is no activity on the Section list on any particular day.

  1. Visit https://msba.simplelists.com/subs and click Unsubscribe for the list/s you want to leave.
  2. Having Trouble? Review the step by step guide.

Need Further Help?

Please do not email the Section Email Discussion Lists for assistance with email frequency or other issues. If you need help with any aspect of the Section list, please email [email protected].