Many of you still have not given us your email, perhaps because you aren't on the web. If you are, and you haven't sent in your email address to us you are missing out on some new features we've added. You can send this info to info@sboe.state.az.us or call 602-364-1611 with the appropriate info.

If you only have occasional web access you can still access our web page to get information (e.g. at Kinko's), see notes on getting web results below.

Those agents with emails should have been receiving automated info for any petitions they filed in the last several months. We have had some issues with this, primary:

Help, my email looks like goobledygook!

Many have complained that the information they received is in an unreadable format. If this is happening it is because your email program does not support html and you are seeing the raw html without it being translated into an easy to read format.

We decided to use html for several reasons, one of which was to allow "hotlinks", that is, to allow a mechanism for our notice of decision automated sendings that would let you link directly to the details for each petition by just clicking on the parcel number. This sort of thing requires html. Most modern email programs support html and it was a forward looking decision, as in the near future this will be standard.

However, this has caused problems with people running legacy email programs, i.e. old versions of AOL, Groupwise, etc. We currently are encouraging people whenever possible to update their email viewer program to a more current version that supports html. Netscape Messenger (in the Netscape suite) is available for free (www.netscape.com) and supports html, internet mail in Windows 95 and 98 supports html. Eudora is an excellent program also and there are others. Most newer versions of your existing program probably support it also, unless it is a discontinued program or one without a newer version.

I deleted my automated email and need to check it again or
Can I get web results like automated email off the web?

Yes. All of the info sent via the automated email notices can be obtained from our web site. Go to the main page and click on "Agent Lookups" option. Follow the logic to get notice of hearing and notice of decision information. Some of the lookups take awhile we are looking at ways to optimize it.

note:

For best results use the "Agent Lookups" rather than the "Parcel Lookups" (options off the main page). The parcel lookups are being redone and may contain some glitches as of 11/98 whereas the agent lookups have been thoroughly debugged.

Questions and Comments

Feel free to send questions or comments to me

Scott
webmaster@sboe.state.az.us

The State Board’s computer system is close to being fully operational and we have some questions we would like you to answer if you intend to use electronic filing.

1. What database are you using?
2. Would you like us to accept other data formats such as, ASCII, SDF, Access, Dbase, etc.?
3. Please feel free to make suggestions about our web site. Particularly, we are interested in how you would like database queries (information) formated.

Any questions please email us at info@sboe.state.az.us.

To get the full benefit of our web site please use version 4 of Internet Explorer or Netscape Communicator 5+.

Thank you very much for your cooperation and support!