misc comments/questions about ERAS and interview swap

Jude, USC invite by mass e-mail...

questions:
1. any significance in the programs' choice of email format in extending invites and sending rejections: ERAS mass e-mail vs. ERAS personal e-mail, vs. non-ERAS mass e-mail vs. non-ERAS personal e-mail

2. as recipient of ERAS e-mails, the "To" field resembles something like [url=mailto]Distribution@inet617.aamc.org[/url]; the numbers I see in my e-mails are 616, 617, and 618. Does anyone know what these numbers mean? what if I send an e-mail to that address?

3. swapping interview dates -- if someone actually successfully used this forum to swap an interview date, please do post your story. As far as I am concerned, posting those request is just an exercise in futility because coordinator maintains their own waiting lists. As a side note, the OCD part of me urges everyone to put these requests into the thread I started named "swapping interview dates." We can clean up the thread a little bit by doing that, or at least until someone actually says these posts actually work, and then you can go crazy.

Thank you. Good luck everyone.

so i think you're right for the most part, swapping does seem kinda sketchy, behind-the-back of the coordinator.

however, the wash. u. coordinator actually recommended trying to switch through this forum. so that's one program that i've definitely heard from her mouth she'd be cool with.