We have a group of some 200 people associated with the Abbey here. Only about 10% have email, but almost all have telephones. We therefore wish to set up a telephone tree system which will enable us to get information to everyone quite quickly - say the time of a funeral - without any one person making more than two or three phone calls.
This could be done, laboriously, with a list on paper and a pencil. But it strikes me as the sort of job a computer program might do neatly (and again next year when the membership has changed) - I mean, to make the list of who calls whom, and print it out. Possibly I could write one: but by the time I had tested enough to be sure it was working, I could have sent the information round by post.
We would be glad to have some ideas! Perhaps some mathematician...?